Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 00:15 - Hanta Hanta I Don’t Wanta
* 04:18 - Bad News
* 08:42 - Predictions Can Be Easy Even About The Future
* 08:50 - Good Advice
* 11:49 - The Efficient Market Hypothesis Is False
* 13:48 - There Are Four Skills
* 16:31 - While I Cannot Condone This
* 21:07 - Good News, Everyone
* 21:48 - For Your Entertainment
* 22:19 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game
* 24:22 - The Spire Sleeps And So Shall I
* 29:42 - I Was Promised Flying, Scratch that, Self-Driving Cars
* 32:13 - Government Working
* 35:58 - Jones Act Watch
* 41:55 - Technology Advances
* 43:04 - I Said Woo Hoo
* 44:31 - Variously Effective Altruism
* 45:04 - The Lighter Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-42-may-2026?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:00:29 - Table of Contents
* 00:03:59 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:05:43 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:06:46 - Huh, Upgrades
* 00:07:23 - Levels of Friction
* 00:08:35 - On Your Marks
* 00:10:04 - Get My Agent On The Line
* 00:13:14 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
* 00:14:34 - Fun With Media Generation
* 00:16:38 - On AI Writing
* 00:19:51 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer
* 00:22:25 - You Drive Me Crazy
* 00:23:14 - They Took Our Jobs
* 00:25:26 - The Art of the Jailbreak
* 00:25:42 - Introducing
* 00:26:24 - Claude Has Its Limits
* 00:27:28 - Show Me the Money
* 00:29:21 - Show Me The Compute
* 00:31:08 - Quiet Speculations
* 00:32:34 - Quickly, There’s No Time
* 00:33:34 - Chip City
* 00:34:41 - Pick Up The Phone
* 00:35:17 - The Week in Audio
* 00:35:45 - Rhetorical Innovation
* 00:40:18 - Not Leading the Future
* 00:46:14 - Elon Musk v OpenAI
* 00:47:15 - People Just Say Things
* 00:47:41 - People Just Publish Things
* 00:48:39 - OpenAI Endroses Kosa And SB 315
* 00:52:13 - The LLMs All Believe Roughly Similar Things
* 00:54:58 - I Learned It By Reading YOU
* 01:13:31 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
* 01:25:00 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone
* 01:26:51 - Messages From Janusworld
* 01:28:48 - People Worried About AI For Other Reasons
* 01:29:17 - The Lighter Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-168-not-leading-the-future?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 01:28 - On Your Marks
* 06:25 - How Good Is Mythos?
* 13:15 - Cyber Lack of Security
* 16:57 - Greetings From The Department of War
* 18:34 - The Prior Restraint Era Begins
* 23:29 - Commerce Versus Intelligence
* 30:28 - The Quest for Sane Regulations
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/cyber-lack-of-security-and-ai-governance?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 00:36 - Education Research Is Worse Than You Know
* 04:33 - The War on Math
* 06:52 - University of California San Diego
* 14:35 - Beyond UCSD
* 16:22 - New York Can’t Do Math
* 17:33 - The Academic Standards Seem Low
* 20:38 - New Math
* 22:48 - Math Anxiety Is Often Due To Knowledge Gaps
* 25:18 - Calculus By Eighth Grade Is Highly Practical For Many
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/childhood-and-education-18-do-the?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 01:01 - Table of Contents
* 01:39 - Mississippi Can Read Now
* 02:57 - What Mississippi and Louisiana Did
* 09:54 - Spies In Every Classroom
* 11:37 - Mississippi Results Are Not Due To Retention
* 17:03 - Is Retention Helpful In General?
* 21:25 - At Eighth Grade A Lot Of This Improvement Remains
* 22:22 - England Reforms Its Schools
* 23:26 - Mastery Learning
* 25:57 - The War Against Reading
* 27:46 - Is Our Children Reading
* 28:26 - No One Reads Anymore
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/childhood-and-education-17-is-our?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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