Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:01:25 - Anthropic Responds To The DoW’s Brief
* 00:12:46 - Alan Rozenshtein and Others Suggest A Narrow Legal Way Out
* 00:14:31 - DoW Tried Another Uniquely Ill-Suited Theory Against Anthropic
* 00:21:44 - Other Views About The Situation From Back Then
* 00:22:20 - Potentially Long Suffering Judge Rita Lin Goes Hard At Hearing
* 00:31:44 - Emil Michael Tells On Himself
* 00:44:59 - Judge Lin Drops The Hammer
* 00:53:12 - Let Me Count The Ways
* 00:56:36 - Emil Michael Doubles Down Once Again
* 00:58:59 - What Happens Now
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/anthropic-vs-dow-6-the-court-rules?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 01:47 - Table of Contents
* 03:55 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
* 05:06 - Refine Your Paper
* 07:18 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
* 09:03 - Huh, Upgrades
* 09:10 - On Your Marks
* 13:05 - Get My Agent On The Line
* 14:56 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
* 17:18 - Fun With Media Generation
* 18:55 - Greetings From The Torment Nexus
* 19:12 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer
* 22:25 - You Drive Me Crazy
* 22:45 - They Took Our Jobs
* 33:58 - They Are Hiring
* 35:31 - Levels of Friction
* 36:32 - In Other AI News
* 37:47 - Show Me the Money
* 46:33 - Quickly, There’s No Time
* 47:32 - The Week in Audio
* 49:12 - eighty thousand Interviews About AI
* 56:40 - Chapter 140
* 56:41 - The Lighter Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-161-part-1-80000-interviews?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 00:49 - Claude Auto Code
* 03:19 - Claude Work
* 04:09 - Never Go Full Computer Use
* 05:40 - Get Yourself A Desktop
* 06:17 - Okay Computer
* 08:59 - Super App
* 10:01 - Huh, Additional Upgrades
* 14:55 - Agentic Coding Offers Mundane Utility
* 17:25 - Agentic Coding Doesn’t Offer Mundane Utility
* 18:11 - Coding Agents Everywhere
* 19:18 - Worth It
* 20:32 - Choose Your Fighter
* 21:04 - Code Review
* 24:26 - There’s An App For That
* 25:38 - In Or Out
* 26:12 - Bulking Up
* 27:05 - Skilling Up
* 31:04 - Unless That Claw
* 32:27 - The Lighter Side
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-code-cowork-and-codex-6-claude?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:00:11 - The Socratic Method
* 00:01:23 - The Paradox Paradox
* 00:09:37 - Rubber Ducking
* 00:12:16 - Coherent Extrapolated Volition
* 00:14:03 - The Cult Leader Breaks You Down
* 00:16:54 - The Cult Leader Builds You Back Up
* 00:21:34 - Did You Know There Are Tradeoffs In Epistemics
* 00:28:26 - You Came Here For An Argument
* 00:35:42 - You Have Completed Building The Oracle
* 00:45:43 - How Refutation Works
* 00:51:18 - The Problem Is Not Having A Problem
* 00:54:36 - What Is Love Justice?
* 00:55:57 - Things That Are Not Entirely Virtuous
* 01:01:07 - Does Anyone Know A Good Surgeon?
* 01:03:10 - This Question Is Starting To Be A Real Problem
* 01:11:38 - Solving An Unproblem
* 01:14:28 - The Slave Finds The Square Root Of Two
* 01:17:25 - Arbitrary Facts
* 01:21:31 - You Are Not Pondering What I Am Pondering
* 01:30:02 - Questions Before Answers
* 01:32:23 - Socratic Answers
* 01:39:16 - Politics
* 01:42:02 - Politicization
* 01:45:39 - Fighting Is Not Pretend Arguing
* 01:50:51 - Freedom After Speech
* 01:51:58 - The Truth Can Lose An Argument
* 01:52:47 - Equality
* 01:57:12 - Inequality
* 02:00:41 - Persuasion Game
* 02:02:56 - What Is Love?
* 02:09:57 - Socrates Only Wants One Thing And It’s Disgusting Philosophy
* 02:16:44 - And Finally Death
* 02:19:14 - Tell Me Lies
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/book-review-open-socrates-part-2?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:04:36 - Editor’s Note
* 00:06:48 - A Difference Of Opinion
* 00:09:39 - An Overview
* 00:09:58 - You Don’t Know Me
* 00:11:01 - Untimely Questions
* 00:15:04 - The Unexamined Life is Worth Living
* 00:20:19 - The Quest For The Unexamined Life
* 00:25:26 - Not Everyone Wants To or Should Philosophize All Day
* 00:28:01 - The Seinfeld Fallacy
* 00:29:59 - Socrates was the Lying GOAT of Hypocritical False Humility
* 00:36:03 - Hearing Voices
* 00:39:00 - Simpsons Ancient Greeks Did It
* 00:42:22 - The Proposed Fourth Option: Socratic Inquiry
* 00:47:37 - No Really The Position is Nothing Else Matters
* 00:51:46 - The War on Wavering and Nebulosity
* 00:59:14 - Living Your Best Life
* 01:03:21 - Introducing the Socratic Method (the real one)
* 01:04:46 - Prove Me Wrong, Kids
* 01:06:30 - Socrates Asserts Wrong Conclusions That Are Wrong
* 01:11:10 - You Can Question Your Beliefs
* 01:20:37 - True Opinions Do Not Only Do Good
* 01:23:42 - Meno Plays the Fool
* 01:27:08 - The Central Magician’s Trick
* 01:28:13 - The Gaslighting of Alcibiades
* 01:41:42 - The Measure of a Fight
* 01:50:50 - The Good Fight
* 01:56:25 - The Curious Case of Euthyphro
* 02:00:45 - You Should Be Sad About That
* 02:06:10 - People Respond To Incentives
* 02:13:38 - Self Versus Other
* 02:15:05 - Socrates Declares Humans Have Unified Minds Free Of Various Biases
* 02:24:05 - Revenge
* 02:40:41 - Legal Systems Very Different From Our Own
* 02:45:49 - Socrates Claims The Just And The Advantageous Are Identical
* 02:56:52 - First Up: Utilitarianism
* 02:59:54 - The Main Rival: Deontology (Kantianism? Stoicism?)
* 03:05:51 - A Trolly Problem
* 03:07:37 - The Third and Correct Option: Virtue Ethics
* 03:16:07 - You Are Not Omniscient
* 03:22:57 - The Hardest Thing In This World Is To Live In It
* 03:29:27 - They Call It Utopia For A Reason
* 03:30:50 - The End… Of Book One
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/book-review-open-socrates-part-1?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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