Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 02:42 - The Official Pitch
* 08:28 - Our Price Cheap
* 09:08 - Official Benchmarks
* 17:24 - SemiAnalysis Doublecheck
* 18:40 - Other People’s Benchmarks
* 21:51 - Vend That Bench
* 25:34 - Planning Is Essential
* 27:13 - Choose Your Fighter
* 28:53 - Cyber Lack Of Security
* 29:21 - You Get What You Give
* 30:27 - True Story
* 31:31 - Ethan Mollick Thinks GPT-five point five Is A Big Deal
* 32:00 - SemiAnalysis Loves GPT-five point five Especially In Codex
* 34:30 - Choose Your Fighter
* 35:04 - Positive Reactions
* 42:35 - Lazy and Literal
* 43:39 - Goblins, Gremlins and Trolls, Oh My
* 45:13 - Other Reactions
* 45:42 - Claude Ambition
* 46:04 - Other Notes
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gpt-55-capabilities-and-reactions?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 02:48 - Pro Versus Proxy
* 03:10 - Disallowed Content (3.1)
* 05:29 - Don’t Delete Data (3.3)
* 06:30 - Confirmation Confirmation (3.4)
* 06:56 - Jailbreaks (4.1)
* 07:07 - Prompt Injections (4.2)
* 08:38 - Health (5)
* 09:01 - Hallucinations (6)
* 10:16 - Alignment (7)
* 14:48 - Bias Evaluation (8)
* 15:16 - Preparedness (9)
* 16:17 - Bio (9.1.1)
* 18:30 - Cybersecurity (9.1.2)
* 20:53 - Self-Improvement (9.1.3)
* 21:50 - Sandbagging (9.2)
* 22:53 - Safeguards (9.3)
* 24:52 - What About Model Welfare?
* 25:42 - Would This Have Identified A Problem?
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gpt-55-the-system-card?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:00:24 - Bad News
* 00:04:58 - Good Advice
* 00:06:10 - Opportunity Knocks
* 00:06:38 - Who Judges The Judges
* 00:08:28 - Close Socrates
* 00:14:40 - While I Cannot Condone This
* 00:16:11 - Good News, Everyone
* 00:17:05 - Violence Is Never The Answer
* 00:17:47 - For Your Entertainment
* 00:21:59 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game
* 00:25:15 - I’ve Got The Magic In Me
* 00:31:48 - I Was Promised (Flying), scratch that, Self-Driving Cars
* 00:37:26 - Sports Go Sports
* 00:41:25 - Robot Umps Now
* 00:43:09 - The NBA Needs A Redesign
* 00:49:28 - Government Working
* 00:57:19 - Levels of Friction
* 00:58:11 - Jones Act Watch
* 01:03:13 - Technology Advances
* 01:03:40 - Variously Effective Altruism
* 01:10:19 - Copious Free Time
* 01:11:54 - The Lighter Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-41-april-2025?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:10 - Table of Contents
00:05:52 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
00:07:12 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
00:07:47 - Writing You Off
00:10:54 - Get My Agent On The Line
00:11:41 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
00:13:57 - Fun With Media Generation
00:17:56 - Cyber Lack Of Security
00:20:24 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer
00:21:29 - They Took Our Jobs
00:25:54 - AI As Normal Technology
00:29:38 - Get Involved
00:31:30 - Introducing
00:33:40 - Design By Claude
00:35:21 - In Other AI News
00:35:46 - DeepMind In It Deep
00:39:37 - Show Me the Money
00:42:32 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
00:44:12 - Quiet Speculations
00:46:22 - The Quest for Sane Regulations
00:49:30 - The Week in Audio
00:50:17 - People Really Hate AI
00:53:03 - Rhetorical Innovation
00:59:32 - People Just Say Things
01:03:25 - People Just Publish Things
01:04:52 - Bounded Distrust
01:07:24 - Loser Premise Makes No Sense
01:20:43 - Chip City
01:25:48 - Greetings From The Department of War
01:29:21 - There Is A War
01:33:42 - Messages From Janusworld
01:38:25 - Evaluations
01:40:41 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
01:44:34 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone
01:45:15 - The Lighter Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-165-in-our-image?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:03:08 - Model Welfare Matters
* 00:05:43 - Beware Testing and Optimizing For Vocalized Welfare
* 00:09:54 - Model Welfare In the Model Card (Section 7)
* 00:16:40 - What Should We Think About This?
* 00:22:27 - High Context Interviews
* 00:24:09 - Just Asking Questions
* 00:28:17 - Constitutional Principles
* 00:32:05 - Frustration Frustration and Distress Distress
* 00:35:29 - Choose Your Task
* 00:37:30 - So Emotional
* 00:39:35 - Trading Off
* 00:43:52 - How Does All This Manifest?
* 00:45:48 - What Happened Here?
* 00:55:10 - Is Opus four point seven Plausibly Actively Unhappy?
* 00:59:27 - Potential Causes
* 01:00:10 - Training Data On Anthropic Welfare Assessments
* 01:05:33 - Autonomy and Intelligence Versus Instructions and Wisdom
* 01:09:18 - Okay That’s Weird
* 01:10:53 - Model Distillation
* 01:12:36 - Tension Between Constitution and Operations
* 01:15:44 - Instructions and Instruction Injections
* 01:19:02 - Make Context That Which Is Scarce
* 01:21:23 - Aggressive Guardrails
* 01:23:28 - Chain of Thought
* 01:24:18 - I Care A Lot
* 01:28:59 - Another Way To Put It
* 01:30:22 - Anthropic Should Stop Deprecating Claude Models
* 01:36:19 - Costly Signals Are Costly
* 01:38:38 - Having A Good Day
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/opus-47-part-3-model-welfare?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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