Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 00:38 - Introducing Google Gemini three point five ‘Flash’
* 05:20 - Other People’s Benchmarks
* 06:34 - Reactions
* 12:29 - Google AI Search
* 13:21 - Google Daily Brief
* 14:29 - Google I/O Day
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gemini-35-flash-looks-good-for-how?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:01:17 - Table of Contents
* 00:04:46 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:06:42 - Do The Math
* 00:07:59 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:08:35 - Huh, Upgrades
* 00:08:48 - The Prior Restraint Era Begins
* 00:10:43 - On Your Marks
* 00:11:13 - METR Frontier Risk Report
* 00:14:57 - Choose Your Fighter
* 00:15:40 - Overcoming Bias
* 00:16:18 - Get My Agent On The Line
* 00:17:34 - Your Prize Is Slop
* 00:24:45 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
* 00:28:38 - Cyber Lack of Security
* 00:30:17 - Copyright Confrontation
* 00:30:26 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer
* 00:32:37 - Unprompted Attention
* 00:32:51 - They Took Our Jobs
* 00:38:20 - Get Involved
* 00:39:20 - Introducing
* 00:40:09 - In Other AI News
* 00:41:44 - Show Me the Money
* 00:44:12 - Show Me The Compute
* 00:45:32 - Quiet Speculations
* 00:49:21 - Time’s Up
* 00:50:37 - People Just Say Things
* 00:53:46 - OpenAI PACs Just Say Things
* 00:57:20 - The Quest for Sane Regulations
* 01:00:16 - Chip City
* 01:04:04 - Pick Up The Phone
* 01:04:33 - The Week in Audio
* 01:04:50 - Rhetorical Innovation
* 01:11:14 - Missing Mood
* 01:18:07 - Americans Really Hate AI
* 01:20:33 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
* 01:25:54 - Greetings From The Department of War
* 01:30:28 - Messages From Janusworld
* 01:30:48 - The Lighter Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-169-new-knowledge?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 00:35 - People Don’t Let Kids Do Things
* 03:26 - Half The People Are Worse Than Average
* 04:29 - Let Your Children Play
* 05:53 - Don’t Fear The CPS
* 10:14 - Daycare
* 13:13 - Daycare Costs
* 15:39 - Lying
* 17:53 - Iterated Games
* 18:31 - Different Kids Are Different
* 19:22 - Punishments
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/childhood-and-education-19-letting?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 00:13 - You’re Single Because You Suck At Kissing
* 01:21 - You’re Not Single But You’re Sexually Incompatible
* 02:48 - You’re Single Because You Aren’t Into BDSM
* 08:19 - You’re Single Because You Didn’t Do The Work
* 16:18 - You’re Single Because Being a Dominant Is Too Much Work
* 23:15 - You’re Single And Would Rather Be Free Use
* 26:02 - You’re Single Because You Wouldn’t or Did Choke Her
* 27:37 - You’re Single Because You Have Very Particular Preferences
* 29:18 - You’re Single Because of Polygyny
* 30:19 - You’re Single Because Polyamory Isn’t Right For You
* 33:58 - You’re Single And Call It Solo Polyamory
* 37:55 - You’re Single Because You Didn’t Go To Slutcon
* 45:49 - You’re Single So Let’s Marry Aella
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/dating-roundup-12-sex-and-violence?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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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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