Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 00:20 - Through A Different Lens
* 01:59 - Establishing J-Space As A Global Workspace
* 05:56 - Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
* 10:08 - Assistant J
* 11:05 - The Power Of Virtuous Thinking
* 19:23 - High Praise
* 24:58 - Everyone Remains Confused About Consciousness
* 34:31 - Further Research
* 38:35 - Don’t Think
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00:00 - Introduction
03:11 - The Blip
09:57 - The White House Explanation
12:01 - Everything Remains Ad Hoc
12:33 - Take What You Can Get
13:59 - The Problem Is Real
14:56 - GLM-5.2 Being Frontier Remains Obvious Nonsense
18:11 - Mythos Might Be Smarter Than You Are
21:08 - Let The Record Reflect
22:41 - Stationary Bandits
26:58 - Use This Window Well
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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:01:01 - Table of Contents
* 00:04:04 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:05:23 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility You May Not Want
* 00:07:00 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility
* 00:08:28 - Huh, Upgrades
* 00:08:59 - On Your Marks
* 00:12:35 - Get My Agent On The Line
* 00:17:37 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
* 00:18:06 - Cyber Lack of Security
* 00:19:23 - On Writing
* 00:24:51 - You Drive Me Crazy
* 00:28:04 - They Took Our Jobs
* 00:34:22 - Get Involved
* 00:34:47 - Introducing
* 00:35:08 - In Other AI News
* 00:36:49 - Show Me the Money
* 00:37:16 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
* 00:40:14 - Quiet Speculations
* 00:44:41 - Glorious AI Future
* 00:48:51 - Three Pills
* 00:50:11 - The Anthropic Economic Indexas
* 00:52:58 - Leader Of The PAC
* 00:54:14 - Theory Of The AI Firm
* 00:55:23 - Chip City
* 00:56:46 - The Week in Audio
* 00:59:28 - People Really Hate AI
* 01:03:16 - Rhetorical Innovation
* 01:07:12 - The First Rule Of Functional Decision Theory Is
* 01:10:36 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
* 01:13:44 - Names Have Power
* 01:14:33 - Cooperative Alignment
* 01:22:41 - People Just Say Things
* 01:24:11 - Escape From The Permanent Underclass
* 01:37:24 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone
* 01:38:42 - The Lighter Side
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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 02:32 - Mythos Exists
* 03:13 - Introduction (1)
* 03:17 - RSP Evaluations (2)
* 04:20 - Cyber (3)
* 04:43 - Safeguards and Harmlessness (4)
* 05:35 - Agentic Safety (5)
* 08:31 - Alignment (6)
* 14:12 - Illegible Thinking (6.4.5)
* 15:19 - Evaluation Awareness
* 15:59 - Honesty and Hallucinations (6.5)
* 17:14 - Flagged As Unhealthy? (6.5.1)
* 17:47 - Model Welfare (7)
* 26:21 - Live From AI Village
* 28:12 - For I Contain Multitudes
* 34:40 - Official Benchmarks
* 40:17 - Other People’s Benchmarks
* 40:42 - Positive Reactions
* 45:39 - Negative Reactions
* 49:33 - A Short Sonnet
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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 01:12 - Table of Contents
* 02:24 - You Should See The Other Guy
* 03:03 - DeepMind Coders Of The World, Unite
* 03:59 - Report Your Incidents
* 04:19 - Good Guy With An AI
* 06:03 - Free As In To Give It A Shot
* 09:32 - Everything Is Both Speech And Computer
* 12:30 - Lambs To The Slaughter
* 17:27 - A Sign Saying Beware Of The Leopard
* 18:34 - The Once And Present Mythos
* 21:59 - What Is To Be Done
* 25:45 - Distillation
* 28:24 - What Would Banning Open Source Even Mean
* 29:24 - Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This
https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-5?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web


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