Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 00:28 - RIP FiveThirtyEight
* 01:25 - RIP Books
* 02:13 - Bad News
* 10:14 - Good Advice
* 18:47 - Opportunity Knocks
* 19:30 - Lower Awareness
* 23:00 - The New York Times Has Some Issues
* 23:25 - Liar Liar
* 26:46 - Conspiracy Theory
* 27:12 - Good News, Everyone
* 27:23 - For Your Entertainment
* 28:56 - A Matter of Taste
* 36:51 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game
* 39:11 - I Was Promised Flying Self-Driving Cars
* 40:21 - Sports Go Sports
* 40:52 - Government Working
* 43:42 - Jones Act Watch
* 44:53 - Humans Can Be Strategic
* 46:56 - Variously Effective Altruism
* 48:14 - Support Anti-Aging Research
* 49:19 - The Lighter Side
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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 01:57 - Alex Bores For Congress In NY-12
* 03:44 - Signs of Life
* 05:06 - The Benchmarks
* 08:45 - GLM-5.2 Is Distilled From Claude
* 09:38 - Positive Responses
* 15:28 - Finding The Niche
* 17:07 - Negative Reactions
* 19:33 - Looking To The Future
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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:01:11 - The Official Pitch
* 00:04:10 - Technical Details
* 00:04:34 - The System Prompt and Jailbreak
* 00:06:49 - Benchmarks
* 00:17:52 - Other People’s Benchmarks
* 00:25:01 - The Classifiers Are Not Messing Around
* 00:26:56 - The Classifiers Need Work
* 00:32:26 - The Classifiers Have Consequences
* 00:33:24 - First Hit Is Free
* 00:34:01 - How Easily We Forget
* 00:35:10 - Data Retention Is An Issue
* 00:35:37 - Fable For The Win
* 00:40:04 - Andrej Karpathy Is Impressed
* 00:41:47 - Every Is Very Impressed
* 00:42:53 - Other People Are Impressed
* 00:54:30 - Know How To Tell a Fable
* 00:56:23 - You Can Just Make Things
* 00:58:46 - You Can Just Install Things
* 00:59:11 - Good Personality
* 01:01:00 - Fable Writes A Fable
* 01:10:56 - Is That Code
* 01:14:00 - Fable Crosses The Threshold
* 01:14:34 - Man With A Plan
* 01:15:29 - Less Impressed Assessments
* 01:18:50 - Actively Negative Assessments
* 01:19:20 - Coherence
* 01:20:38 - Good Night And Good Luck
* 01:21:09 - Curious Fable
* 01:21:25 - I See You, Baby
* 01:21:40 - We Finally Did It We Know How To Count Letters
* 01:22:54 - That’s Not My Style
* 01:30:50 - The Lighter Side
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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:03:06 - Table of Contents
* 00:06:50 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:06:59 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:07:22 - Huh, Upgrades
* 00:07:51 - On Your Marks
* 00:13:41 - VirtueBench
* 00:16:04 - Choose Your Fighter
* 00:16:38 - Papers, Please
* 00:17:05 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
* 00:18:46 - Goodhart’s Law Strikes Again
* 00:19:32 - They Took Our Jobs
* 00:22:12 - The MidJourney Full Body Imaging Scanner
* 00:24:30 - Introducing
* 00:26:00 - In Other AI News
* 00:28:52 - Show Me the Money
* 00:29:17 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
* 00:30:50 - Quiet Speculations
* 00:33:28 - People Just Say Things
* 00:36:58 - The Widened Path
* 00:39:17 - Scott Alexander Lays Out His AI Opinions
* 00:46:01 - Quickly, There’s No Time
* 00:47:04 - Policy On The AI Exponential
* 00:57:03 - Anthropic Offers Two Policy Frameworks
* 00:58:08 - Obligations of Developers
* 01:02:53 - Societal Resilience Measures
* 01:04:12 - Economic Policy Framework
* 01:09:49 - White House Pauses AI Deployment
* 01:18:28 - The Once And Future Fable
* 01:23:27 - How To Fix This Code
* 01:25:11 - The End of Privacy
* 01:26:38 - AIs Have Preferences
* 01:29:27 - The Quest for Sane Regulations
* 01:32:13 - Chip City
* 01:32:43 - The Week in Audio
* 01:32:52 - Rhetorical Innovation
* 01:33:29 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
* 01:35:14 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone
* 01:36:27 - The Lighter Side
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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 01:46 - There Was No Fable Jailbreak
* 08:02 - If This Jailbreak Was Real It Would Be Trivial To Prove It
* 09:26 - No Eyes
* 10:30 - What The Letter Actually Said
* 12:28 - Anthropic Cannot Challenge This But If It Did Then It Plausibly Wins
* 14:33 - What Happened At Amazon
* 19:00 - This Was Not About Chinese Access
* 19:18 - Absolute Discretion And Ad Hockery Is Not Deregulation
* 22:11 - All Of American AI Is Permanently Damaged As This Continues
* 23:47 - Dean Ball Gives His Interpretation
* 26:52 - Again, Yes, I Do Think Anthropic Should Have Taken Fable Down
* 30:09 - To What Extent Was This A Deliberate Attack?
* 34:57 - The Next Chapter For Fable
* 39:10 - Our Continuing Coverage
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