Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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On Writing #2
Podcast episode for On Writing #2.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:27 - Table of Contents* 01:08 - How I Use AI For Writing These Days* 04:37 - Influencing Influence* 06:29 - Size Matters* 07:15 - Time To Write A Shorter One* 08:43 - A Useful Tool* 08:59 - A Maligned Tool* 11:08 - Neglected Topics* 13:35 - The Humanities Don’t Seem Relevant To Writing About Future Humanity?* 14:51 - Writing Every Day* 15:23 - Writing As Deep Work* 16:27 - Most Of Your Audience Is Secondhand* 19:12 - That’s Funny* 19:56 - Fiction Writing Advice* 20:30 - Just Say The Thing* 24:22 - Cracking the PaywallThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/on-writing-2?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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AI Craziness: Additional Suicide Lawsuits and The Fate of GPT-4o
Podcast episode for AI Craziness: Additional Suicide Lawsuits and The Fate of GPT-4o.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:47 - The Latest Cases Look Quite Bad For OpenAI* 02:35 - Routing Sensitive Messages Is A Dominated Defensive Strategy* 03:36 - Some 4o Users Get Rather Attached To The Model* 05:10 - A Theory Of How All This Works* 07:53 - Maybe This Is Net Good In Spite Of Everything?* 11:19 - Could One Make A ‘Good 4o’?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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-craziness-additional-suicide-lawsuits?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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AI #142: Common Ground
Podcast episode for AI #142: Common Ground.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:34 - Table of Contents* 00:04:25 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:07:32 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:08:53 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:09:26 - On Your Marks* 00:09:55 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:11:25 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:13:40 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:16:25 - So You’ve Decided To Become Evil* 00:21:31 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:22:29 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:24:43 - Get Involved* 00:24:51 - Introducing* 00:25:47 - In Other AI News* 00:27:35 - Show Me the Money* 00:30:55 - Common Ground* 00:33:55 - Quiet Speculations* 00:43:41 - ‘AI Progress Is Slowing Down’ Is Not Slowing Down* 00:46:09 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:48:01 - The Quest for Government Money* 00:53:54 - Chip City* 00:58:30 - The Week in Audio* 00:59:38 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:06:53 - Galaxy Brain Resistance* 01:15:58 - Misaligned!* 01:17:03 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:22:06 - Messages From Janusworld* 01:25:58 - You’ll Know* 01:28:13 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:33:55 - The Lighter SideThe 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.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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-142-common-ground?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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The Pope Offers Wisdom
Podcast episode for The Pope Offers Wisdom* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:22 - Wisdom Is Offered* 03:04 - The Context of The Meme Andreessen Used (If You Don’t Know)* 05:03 - Andreessen Takes Bold Stand Against Moral Discernment* 07:09 - Tech World Decides Performative Cruelty May Have Gone Too Far* 10:47 - The Avatar of Societal Decay* 11:39 - Marc’s Technical Takes And Arguments Also Are Not Good* 12:42 - The Best Defense* 14:46 - You’re All Wondering Why You’re Here TodayThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-pope-offers-wisdom?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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Kimi K2 Thinking
Podcast episode for Kimi K2 Thinking* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:29 - Introducing K2 Thinking* 02:03 - Writing Quality* 02:52 - Agentic Tool Use* 04:03 - Overall* 05:10 - Are Benchmarks Being Targeted?* 06:19 - Just As Good Syndrome* 06:58 - Reactions* 09:29 - Otherwise It Has Been Strangely QuietThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/kimi-k2-thinking?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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