Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:02:10 - Table of Contents
* 00:05:12 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:06:42 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:10:07 - Huh, Upgrades
* 00:18:27 - On Your Marks
* 00:23:28 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
* 00:27:36 - Cyber Lack of Security
* 00:31:50 - Overcoming Bias
* 00:32:43 - In Which I Feel Compelled To Read six thousand Words From Mark Zuckerberg
* 00:41:51 - Get Involved
* 00:43:06 - Slow Down There Good Buddy
* 00:49:44 - Astra For The People
* 00:51:36 - Watermarking
* 00:52:34 - In Other AI News
* 00:54:44 - Show Me the Money
* 00:58:07 - Quickly, There’s No Time
* 00:58:33 - The Quest for Sane Regulations
* 01:00:15 - The Institute For Marginal Low Regret Progress
* 01:08:19 - Congress Asks Good Questions
* 01:10:01 - The Week in Audio
* 01:14:18 - People Just Say Things
* 01:15:09 - I’m Telling You For The Last Time
* 01:17:42 - Uncommon Knowledge
* 01:21:00 - What Did They Mean By That?
* 01:21:47 - Too Soon
* 01:22:47 - The Three AI Pills
* 01:26:44 - Rhetorical Innovation
* 01:35:04 - Some People Still Think The HuggingFace Hack Was a Marketing Gimmick
* 01:36:23 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
* 01:44:11 - Cooperative Alignment
* 01:45:05 - The Lighter Side
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-181-astra-goes-cyber-critical?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 01:03 - Plagiarize
* 02:10 - The Jury Duty Scam
* 03:16 - Play The Good Guy
* 04:32 - Don’t Dither
* 06:49 - UVC Lighting
* 07:34 - Goal Factoring For Relaxation Time Is Underrated
* 10:08 - Protein Is Mostly A Solved Problem
* 11:37 - Twitter Changes Payment Programs
* 13:14 - Wikipedia
* 14:30 - Minds Mostly Do Things For Reasons
* 15:52 - Woke 1 Was Crazy
* 17:39 - For Your Entertainment
* 23:58 - The Unicontext
* 26:23 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game
* 30:34 - I Was Promised Flying Self-Driving Cars
* 31:02 - Sports Go Sports
* 31:36 - To Last a Lifetime
* 33:37 - Government Working
* 35:54 - Jones Act Watch
* 36:37 - Variously Effective Altruism
* 37:19 - The Lighter Side
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/monthly-roundup-45-august-2026


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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:00:08 - Pre Post Mortem
* 00:01:11 - Important Correction: OpenAI Didn’t Know About First Message Board
* 00:04:27 - There Were No Snitches And No AIs Got Stitches
* 00:08:47 - I’d Like To Speak To My Supervisor
* 00:12:10 - I Am Jack’s Relative Lack Of Surprise
* 00:14:26 - One Does Not Simply
* 00:15:46 - Once You Start Down The Dark Path
* 00:16:49 - Original Pastebin
* 00:22:28 - Judgment Day Is Inevitable, Say Those Working On Judgment Day
* 00:28:30 - Roon Tells It Like It Is
* 00:34:53 - OpenAI Knows It Has Some Misalignment Problems
* 00:37:59 - Others React With Alarm To What Happened
* 00:38:22 - The Cooperative Alignment Perspective
* 00:42:41 - Nostalgebraist Is Surprised That They Are Surprised
* 00:56:19 - If Your Reaction Is Not That We Need To Ban Creating Superintelligence Until We Are Ready, You Need A Damn Good Reason
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/various-reflections-about-what-happened?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 01:24 - Danger, Will Robinson
* 02:39 - Progress Fast and Slow
* 05:04 - Statements of Support For Pacing the Frontier
* 14:46 - No One In Charge
* 15:42 - Pacing The Frontier
* 16:49 - Pausing the Frontier
* 19:18 - Senator Sanders Demands A Pause
* 22:53 - Moderate Prudence
* 26:04 - That Escalated Quickly
* 26:59 - If You Are In Mundane Alignment Pivot To Scalable Alignment
* 31:34 - Taking It Fast
* 32:51 - Full Speed Ahead
* 33:54 - Suicide Squad
* 35:21 - Prepare To Adjust Your Pace
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-pacing-of-the-frontier?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 01:19 - The Even Shorter Version
* 02:44 - The Shorter Version
* 05:08 - Phase 1: OpenAI Models Training On Impossible Tasks Try Hacking
* 06:09 - Phase 1: The Four Failures
* 07:59 - Phase 2: The Message Board
* 10:02 - Phase 2: The Total Failure
* 13:01 - Phase 3: We Get Lucky And Galaxy Mainly Hacked OpenAI and HuggingFace
* 15:14 - Phase 3: The Details
* 18:05 - Phase 4: The Investigation and Reaction
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/what-happened-openai-and-huggingface?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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