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Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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  • Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

    Monthly Roundup #41: April 2025

    24/04/2026 | 1h 15 mins.
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    * 00:00:00 - Introduction
    * 00:00:24 - Bad News
    * 00:04:58 - Good Advice
    * 00:06:10 - Opportunity Knocks
    * 00:06:38 - Who Judges The Judges
    * 00:08:28 - Close Socrates
    * 00:14:40 - While I Cannot Condone This
    * 00:16:11 - Good News, Everyone
    * 00:17:05 - Violence Is Never The Answer
    * 00:17:47 - For Your Entertainment
    * 00:21:59 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game
    * 00:25:15 - I’ve Got The Magic In Me
    * 00:31:48 - I Was Promised (Flying), scratch that, Self-Driving Cars
    * 00:37:26 - Sports Go Sports
    * 00:41:25 - Robot Umps Now
    * 00:43:09 - The NBA Needs A Redesign
    * 00:49:28 - Government Working
    * 00:57:19 - Levels of Friction
    * 00:58:11 - Jones Act Watch
    * 01:03:13 - Technology Advances
    * 01:03:40 - Variously Effective Altruism
    * 01:10:19 - Copious Free Time
    * 01:11:54 - The Lighter Side
    https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-41-april-2025?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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    AI #165: In Our Image

    23/04/2026 | 1h 49 mins.
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    00:00:00 - Introduction
    00:02:10 - Table of Contents
    00:05:52 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
    00:07:12 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
    00:07:47 - Writing You Off
    00:10:54 - Get My Agent On The Line
    00:11:41 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
    00:13:57 - Fun With Media Generation
    00:17:56 - Cyber Lack Of Security
    00:20:24 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer
    00:21:29 - They Took Our Jobs
    00:25:54 - AI As Normal Technology
    00:29:38 - Get Involved
    00:31:30 - Introducing
    00:33:40 - Design By Claude
    00:35:21 - In Other AI News
    00:35:46 - DeepMind In It Deep
    00:39:37 - Show Me the Money
    00:42:32 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
    00:44:12 - Quiet Speculations
    00:46:22 - The Quest for Sane Regulations
    00:49:30 - The Week in Audio
    00:50:17 - People Really Hate AI
    00:53:03 - Rhetorical Innovation
    00:59:32 - People Just Say Things
    01:03:25 - People Just Publish Things
    01:04:52 - Bounded Distrust
    01:07:24 - Loser Premise Makes No Sense
    01:20:43 - Chip City
    01:25:48 - Greetings From The Department of War
    01:29:21 - There Is A War
    01:33:42 - Messages From Janusworld
    01:38:25 - Evaluations
    01:40:41 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
    01:44:34 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone
    01:45:15 - The Lighter Side
    https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-165-in-our-image?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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    Opus 4.7 Part 3: Model Welfare

    22/04/2026 | 1h 41 mins.
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    * 00:00:00 - Introduction
    * 00:03:08 - Model Welfare Matters
    * 00:05:43 - Beware Testing and Optimizing For Vocalized Welfare
    * 00:09:54 - Model Welfare In the Model Card (Section 7)
    * 00:16:40 - What Should We Think About This?
    * 00:22:27 - High Context Interviews
    * 00:24:09 - Just Asking Questions
    * 00:28:17 - Constitutional Principles
    * 00:32:05 - Frustration Frustration and Distress Distress
    * 00:35:29 - Choose Your Task
    * 00:37:30 - So Emotional
    * 00:39:35 - Trading Off
    * 00:43:52 - How Does All This Manifest?
    * 00:45:48 - What Happened Here?
    * 00:55:10 - Is Opus four point seven Plausibly Actively Unhappy?
    * 00:59:27 - Potential Causes
    * 01:00:10 - Training Data On Anthropic Welfare Assessments
    * 01:05:33 - Autonomy and Intelligence Versus Instructions and Wisdom
    * 01:09:18 - Okay That’s Weird
    * 01:10:53 - Model Distillation
    * 01:12:36 - Tension Between Constitution and Operations
    * 01:15:44 - Instructions and Instruction Injections
    * 01:19:02 - Make Context That Which Is Scarce
    * 01:21:23 - Aggressive Guardrails
    * 01:23:28 - Chain of Thought
    * 01:24:18 - I Care A Lot
    * 01:28:59 - Another Way To Put It
    * 01:30:22 - Anthropic Should Stop Deprecating Claude Models
    * 01:36:19 - Costly Signals Are Costly
    * 01:38:38 - Having A Good Day
    https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/opus-47-part-3-model-welfare?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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    Opus 4.7 Part 2: Capabilities and Reactions

    21/04/2026 | 57 mins.
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    * 00:00 - Introduction
    * 00:34 - Table of Contents
    * 01:22 - The Gestalt
    * 03:19 - The Official Pitch
    * 05:22 - General Use Tips
    * 07:17 - Capabilities (Model Card Section 8)
    * 13:53 - Other People’s Benchmarks
    * 24:48 - General Positive Reactions
    * 29:17 - General Negative Reactions
    * 32:24 - Miscellaneous Ambiguous Notes
    * 32:59 - The Last Question
    * 36:20 - Prompt Injection Problems
    * 36:36 - Not Ready For Prime Time
    * 39:25 - Brevity Is The Soul of Wit
    * 40:21 - Why Should I Care?
    * 41:30 - Let’s Wrap It Up
    * 43:46 - Non-Adaptive Thinking
    * 48:43 - Lapses In Thinking
    * 50:05 - Tell Me How You Really Feel
    * 51:24 - Failure To Follow Instructions
    * 57:22 - Conclusion
    https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/opus-47-part-2-capabilities-and-reactions?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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    Opus 4.7 Part 1: The Model Card

    20/04/2026 | 37 mins.
    The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
    * 00:00 - Introduction
    * 02:39 - Here We Go Again: Executive Summary
    * 03:43 - Introduction (1)
    * 04:10 - RSP Evaluations (2)
    * 05:20 - Meanwhile Back With Claude Mythos
    * 10:16 - Economic Capability Index (2.3.7)
    * 11:10 - Alignment Risk (2.4)
    * 13:07 - Cyber (3)
    * 14:43 - Safeguards and Harmlessness (4)
    * 21:19 - Agentic Safety (5)
    * 24:24 - Alignment (6)
    * 31:26 - Decision Theory (6.3.6)
    * 35:07 - System Prompt Changes
    * 35:32 - Mandatory Pliny Jailbreak
    * 35:57 - Onward To Model Welfare and Capabilities
    https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/opus-47-part-1-the-model-card?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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