Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:02:19 - Bad News
* 00:04:10 - Government Working
* 00:15:37 - The Epstein Files
* 00:17:47 - RIP Scott Adams
* 00:19:51 - News You Can’t Use But Click On Anyway
* 00:21:04 - We’re Putting Together A Team
* 00:21:28 - You Can’t Retire, I Quit
* 00:24:17 - Jones Act Watch
* 00:35:00 - Variously Effective Altruism
* 00:36:23 - They Took Our Jobs And Now I Can Relax
* 00:37:28 - While I Cannot Condone This
* 00:39:29 - Good News, Everyone
* 00:41:26 - Use Your One Time
* 00:44:38 - Hands Off My Phone
* 00:47:26 - Fun Theory
* 00:48:57 - Good Advice
* 00:50:46 - For Your Entertainment
* 00:53:52 - Plur1bus
* 00:55:00 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game
* 01:00:38 - Sports Go Sports
* 01:05:23 - The Revolution of Retroactive Rising Expectations
* 01:06:54 - I Was Promised Spying Cars
* 01:07:44 - Prediction Market Madness
* 01:11:40 - The Lighter Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-39-february-2026?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 03:16 - Table of Contents
* 03:52 - Bounded Distrust
* 06:19 - IN SPACE
* 11:01 - The AI Will Follow You To Mars
* 23:46 - xAI Business Plans
* 27:11 - Optimus Prime
* 28:22 - Beating China
* 31:06 - SpaceX and How To Run a Company Elon Style
* 34:37 - DOGE
* 37:04 - TeraFab IN SPACE
* 37:20 - Postscript: Safety Third at xAI
* 41:56 - Elon Serves Back Saying That Which Is Not
* 44:31 - Elon’s Army
* 45:38 - Children Are Our Future
* 49:29 - Where Do We Go From Here
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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 01:40 - Table of Contents
* 01:52 - The Pace of Progress
* 09:44 - Continual Learning
* 15:17 - Does Not Compute
* 17:07 - Step Two
* 25:25 - The Quest For Sane Regulations
* 28:54 - Beating China
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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 03:07 - Quickly, There’s No Time
* 04:19 - System Card
* 04:50 - AI Box Experiment
* 05:24 - Maybe Cool It With Rm
* 06:59 - Preparedness Framework
* 11:59 - Glass Houses
* 13:04 - OpenAI Appears To Have Violated SB 53 In a Meaningful Way
* 15:23 - Safeguards They Did Implement
* 17:52 - Misalignment Risks and Internal Deployment
* 19:36 - The Official Pitch
* 25:35 - Inception
* 27:15 - Turn The Beat Around
* 28:34 - Codex Does Cool Things
* 30:45 - Positive Reactions
* 38:32 - Negative Reactions
* 41:03 - Codex of Ultimate Vibing
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/chatgpt-53-codex-is-also-good-at?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:02:24 - Table of Contents
* 00:05:54 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:06:30 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:06:46 - Huh, Upgrades
* 00:07:33 - On Your Marks
* 00:10:08 - Overcoming Bias
* 00:11:08 - Choose Your Fighter
* 00:12:22 - Get My Agent On The Line
* 00:15:38 - AI Conversations Are Not Privileged
* 00:16:32 - Fun With Media Generation
* 00:17:35 - The Superb Owl
* 00:25:42 - A Word From The Torment Nexus
* 00:30:25 - They Took Our Jobs
* 00:39:58 - The Art of the Jailbreak
* 00:40:08 - Introducing
* 00:42:01 - In Other AI News
* 00:47:06 - Show Me the Money
* 00:48:03 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
* 00:58:40 - Future Shock
* 01:00:56 - Memory Lane
* 01:01:56 - Keep The Mask On Or You’re Fired
* 01:03:24 - Quiet Speculations
* 01:08:35 - The Quest for Sane Regulations
* 01:10:59 - Chip City
* 01:14:36 - The Week in Audio
* 01:14:54 - Constitutional Conversation
* 01:15:53 - Rhetorical Innovation
* 01:23:58 - Working On It Anyway
* 01:26:50 - The Thin Red Line
* 01:28:14 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
* 01:35:57 - People Will Hand Over Power To The AIs
* 01:36:57 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone
* 01:37:54 - Famous Last Words
* 01:45:15 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone
* 01:47:27 - The Lighter Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-155-welcome-to-recursive-self?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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