Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:02:10 - Introducing Project Glasswing
* 00:03:39 - Don’t Worry About the Government
* 00:05:15 - Cybersecurity Capabilities In The Model Card (Section 3)
* 00:06:56 - Cyber Capability Tests In The Model Card
* 00:08:54 - The Proof Is In The Patching
* 00:11:26 - Go For Read Team
* 00:15:16 - Is This New?
* 00:18:12 - Thanks For The Memories
* 00:23:07 - How Good Is Mythos At This?
* 00:26:20 - What Might Have Been
* 00:29:02 - The Chaos Option
* 00:32:09 - The Can’t Happen That Happened
* 00:33:15 - When You Go Looking For Specific, And You Are Told Exactly Where and How To Look For It, Your Chances Of Finding It Are Very Good
* 00:38:57 - Blatant Denials Are The Best Kind
* 00:42:56 - Anything You Can Do I Can Do Cheaper
* 00:45:15 - Theft Of Mythos Would Be A Big Deal
* 00:45:39 - No One Could Have Predicted This
* 00:46:52 - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
* 00:47:50 - The Intelligence Will Not Be Televised
* 00:50:09 - Will We Be Doing This For A While?
* 00:52:30 - What If OpenAI Gets a Similar Model?
* 00:53:53 - Use It Or Lose It
* 00:54:28 - Solve For The Equilibrium
* 00:57:49 - Patriots and Tyrants
* 01:00:19 - Trust The Mythos
* 01:01:58 - Wide Scale Ability To Exploit Software Favors Strongest Projects
* 01:06:45 - Looking Back at GPT-2
* 01:08:10 - Limitless Demand For Compute
* 01:09:53 - Oh, Also, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:03:39 - Mundane Alignment Is Excellent
* 00:05:26 - Would This Process Be Sufficient To Find A Dangerous Model?
* 00:06:58 - Introductory Warning About Superficial Mundane Alignment
* 00:15:45 - Model Training (1.1)
* 00:15:57 - Release Decision Process (1.2)
* 00:18:24 - RSP Evaluations (2.1 and 2.2)
* 00:23:26 - Autonomy Evaluations (2.3)
* 00:27:37 - The Alignment Risk Update Document
* 00:28:19 - The Threat Model
* 00:30:52 - Misalignment As Failure Mode
* 00:33:20 - Wouldn’t You Know?
* 00:35:29 - Don’t Encourage Your Model
* 00:37:00 - Beware Goodhart’s Law
* 00:39:08 - Beware The Most Forbidden Technique (5.2.3)
* 00:43:42 - Asking The Right Questions
* 00:45:11 - Model Organism Tests
* 00:47:13 - Model Weight Security (Risk Report 5.5.2.1)
* 00:47:41 - Reward Hacking (Back to The Model Card)
* 00:48:07 - Remote Drop-In Worker Coming Soon
* 00:51:04 - External Testing (2.3.7)
* 00:51:39 - Cyber Insecurity General Principle Interlude
* 00:52:52 - Alignment (4)
* 00:58:41 - Risk In The Room
* 01:00:04 - Mythos Meant Well
* 01:02:32 - Risk Not In The Room
* 01:05:38 - Alignment Testing Overview
* 01:09:09 - Internal Deployment Testing Process
* 01:11:47 - Reports From Pilot Use (4.2.1)
* 01:12:24 - Reports From Automated Testing (4.2)
* 01:15:35 - Other External Testing
* 01:16:17 - Just The Facts, Sir
* 01:19:20 - Refusing Safety Research
* 01:20:27 - Claude Favoritism
* 01:21:56 - Ruling Out Encoded Thinking (4.4.1)
* 01:25:51 - Sandbagging (4.4.2)
* 01:28:49 - Capability for Evasion of Safeguards (4.4.3)
* 01:31:20 - Pick A Random Number (4.4.3.4)
* 01:34:23 - White Box Analysis (4.5)
* 01:39:38 - Model Welfare (5)
* 01:40:43 - Key Model Welfare Findings (5.1.2)
* 01:52:05 - Is Mythos Okay?
* 01:54:48 - Self-Play
* 01:56:49 - A Few Fun Facts
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-mythos-the-system-card?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:02:21 - Table of Contents
* 00:05:41 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:06:11 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:06:34 - Huh, Upgrades
* 00:08:09 - On Your Marks
* 00:11:03 - Meta Problems
* 00:11:17 - Fun With Media Generation
* 00:13:11 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer
* 00:13:19 - You Drive Me Crazy
* 00:26:27 - Unprompted Attention
* 00:27:05 - They Took Our Jobs
* 00:38:39 - They Took Our Job Market
* 00:40:43 - Get Involved
* 00:42:52 - In Other AI News
* 00:43:30 - Search Your Feelings You Know It To Be True
* 00:51:50 - Actors And Scribes
* 00:54:53 - Show Me the Money
* 01:00:32 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
* 01:00:50 - Quiet Speculations
* 01:01:05 - Quickly, There’s No Time
* 01:05:07 - More Time Would Be Better
* 01:06:02 - Greetings From The Department of War
* 01:07:16 - The Quest for Sane Regulations
* 01:09:01 - Chip City
* 01:10:27 - Political Violence Is Completely and Always Unacceptable
* 01:11:00 - The Week in Audio
* 01:13:34 - Rhetorical Innovation
* 01:17:43 - People Really Hate AI
* 01:20:43 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
* 01:25:05 - Messages From Janusworld
* 01:28:17 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone
* 01:29:37 - The Lighter Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-163-mythos-quest?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 00:50 - Table of Contents
* 01:43 - Part 1: OpenAI: The Histories
* 03:06 - The Battle of the Board
* 04:08 - Thanks For The Memos
* 04:30 - I Am What I Am
* 05:04 - That’s Not What I Said
* 05:19 - There Will Be No Investigation
* 06:22 - Musk Versus Altman
* 07:38 - Amodei Versus Altman
* 09:33 - Sydney Versus Altman
* 10:31 - Highest Bidder Versus Altman
* 12:58 - Risky Business
* 15:46 - Superalignment Was Always Fake
* 18:28 - This Is Fine
* 19:22 - Liar Liar Master Persuader
* 23:15 - This In Particular Is Securities Fraud
* 25:00 - Regulation Two Step
* 26:26 - Easy Mode
* 29:06 - The Right Amount of Alignment Research Is Not Zero
* 31:10 - OpenAI Proposes Policy
* 43:15 - RIP TBPN
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/openai-16-a-history-and-a-proposal?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 00:45 - New Levels Of Saying Quiet Part Out Loud Even For This Guy
* 02:09 - Whose Side Are You On
* 03:01 - Your Intervention Only Partly Solves The Problem So We Are Against It
* 04:06 - More Dakka
* 05:18 - Abundance
* 06:20 - Changes In Rent Are Largely About Changes In Supply
* 07:52 - Austin
* 09:50 - America
* 12:07 - Minnesota
* 13:28 - Debunking Obvious Nonsense About Monopolistic Practices
* 23:26 - Age Of The Median Homebuyer
* 27:31 - Property Taxes Improve Allocation Efficiency
* 30:43 - More Of Old People Inefficiently And Systematically Stealing From Young People
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/housing-roundup-13-more-dakka?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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