Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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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
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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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* 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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* 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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* 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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