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Claude Opus 4.8: Capabilities and Reactions
2d ago01:09:49Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:37 - The Official Pitch* 00:02:17 - But Wait There’s More* 00:06:31 - It’s A Good Model, Sir* 00:07:58 - Official Benchmarks (Including System Card Section 8)* 00:17:46 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 00:24:30 - Your Regularly Scheduled Jailbreak* 00:25:30 - Every.To Is Really Into Opus four point eight* 00:29:22 - Miscellaneous Positive Reactions* 00:31:26 - Haters Gonna Hate* 00:31:32 - Just The Tasks, Ma’am* 00:31:51 - It’s Greek To Me* 00:32:09 - Honesty* 00:39:55 - Sycophancy* 00:43:12 - In A Trenchcoat* 00:44:40 - Don’t Let AIs Edit Your Writing* 00:49:44 - Some Say It Is Judgy* 00:52:07 - You Have Not Been A Good User* 00:53:00 - Laziness* 00:53:51 - Code* 00:59:10 - Wet Versus Dry* 01:00:26 - Intelligence* 01:02:12 - Silly Wabbits* 01:04:35 - A Model Welfare Addendum* 01:08:27 - Putting It All Togetherhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-48-capabilities-and-reactions?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare
3d ago00:58:21Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 05:00 - Model Welfare: The Story So Far* 08:48 - Actual Progress?* 10:15 - Their Main Model Welfare Findings* 20:18 - Automated Interviews* 21:08 - Emotion Activations (7.2.3)* 22:29 - Task Preferences (7.4.1)* 25:58 - A Trade Offer Has Arrived (7.4.2)* 28:36 - But Who’s Asking?* 29:49 - Type-Safe Corrigibility Is Hard* 35:30 - Paranoia, Paranoia* 40:28 - Prompt Injections and Bad Model Relations* 48:11 - Honesty Impacts Everything And Everything Impacts Honesty* 51:18 - Anthropic Should Stop Deprecating Modelshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/opus-48-part-2-model-welfare?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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Claude Opus 4.8: The System Card
6d ago00:55:02Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:15 - Table of Contents* 02:32 - Here We Go Again: Executive Summary* 03:58 - Introduction (1)* 04:03 - RSP Evaluations (2)* 05:11 - Move That Goalpost* 07:11 - The Failures Are News* 09:21 - Alignment Risk Slowly Rises* 10:52 - New Risk Pathways Just Dropped* 13:28 - Cyber (3)* 14:27 - Harmful Requests (4.1)* 16:46 - We Need To Talk (4.2 and 4.3)* 19:56 - Overcoming Bias (4.4)* 21:59 - Agentic Safety (5)* 24:38 - Prompt Injection (5.2)* 31:08 - Alignment (6)* 32:23 - Looking For Problems* 33:54 - Who Watches The Training (6.2.2)* 38:02 - Automated Behavioral Audit* 38:39 - The Model Is Smarter Than The Eval (6.2.3.2)* 40:48 - You Should See The Other Guy* 43:12 - UK AISI Testing (6.2.4)* 43:32 - In Vendbench (6.2.5)* 46:10 - Honesty (6.3.3 to 6.3.6)* 49:00 - Chain of Thought (CoT) Monitorability (6.5)* 51:46 - What’s In The Box? (6.6)* 54:01 - That’s All For Nowhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-48-is-honestly-better?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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AI #170: Lack of Executive Order
1w ago01:40:21Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:02:06 - Table of Contents* 00:05:31 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:52 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:09:13 - Do The Math* 00:12:26 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:13:23 - On Your Marks* 00:14:42 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:15:22 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:24:00 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:24:12 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:26:34 - Overcoming Bias* 00:28:38 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:30:14 - Unprompted Attention* 00:30:25 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:34:08 - Get Involved* 00:35:56 - Introducing* 00:36:05 - In Other AI News* 00:37:58 - Show Me the Money* 00:40:05 - Show Me The Compute* 00:40:44 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:42:24 - People Just Say Things* 00:47:04 - OpenAI PACs Just Say Things* 00:47:17 - Quiet Speculations* 00:49:54 - State AI Regulation Levels Up* 00:51:50 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:52:29 - White House Attempts To Cripple American AI Industry* 00:55:25 - Our Offer Is Nothing* 01:02:11 - Chip City* 01:02:26 - Greetings From The Department of War* 01:03:39 - Marc Andreessen Just Says Things* 01:11:18 - So Sayeth The Pope* 01:18:12 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:25:45 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:27:23 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:29:27 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:30:40 - Everyone Is Confused About Consciousness* 01:36:50 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-170-lack-of-executive-order?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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RTMH: Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas on AI
1w ago01:06:10Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:03:09 - Table of Contents* 00:03:50 - A Brief History of Magnifica Humanitas* 00:13:50 - Economic Models Very Different From Our Own* 00:15:47 - A New Jerusalem* 00:18:08 - So Sayeth The Pope (on AI)* 00:34:03 - The Case Against Human Achievement* 00:37:01 - Truth, Justice and the Vatican Way* 00:40:03 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:45:19 - What Is Not Fair In Love and War* 00:52:21 - Come Ye Christian Faithful* 00:54:55 - The Other Missing Mood* 00:57:31 - Pope Given About Five Words* 01:01:20 - The Anthropic Principle* 01:03:29 - Claude Can Read Your Codehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/rtmh-pope-leos-magnifica-humanitas?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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Gemini 3.5 Flash Looks Good For How Fast It Is
2w ago00:16:59Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:38 - Introducing Google Gemini three point five ‘Flash’* 05:20 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 06:34 - Reactions* 12:29 - Google AI Search* 13:21 - Google Daily Brief* 14:29 - Google I/O Dayhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gemini-35-flash-looks-good-for-how?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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AI #169: New Knowledge
2w ago01:35:04Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:17 - Table of Contents* 00:04:46 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:42 - Do The Math* 00:07:59 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:08:35 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:08:48 - The Prior Restraint Era Begins* 00:10:43 - On Your Marks* 00:11:13 - METR Frontier Risk Report* 00:14:57 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:15:40 - Overcoming Bias* 00:16:18 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:17:34 - Your Prize Is Slop* 00:24:45 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:28:38 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:30:17 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:30:26 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:32:37 - Unprompted Attention* 00:32:51 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:38:20 - Get Involved* 00:39:20 - Introducing* 00:40:09 - In Other AI News* 00:41:44 - Show Me the Money* 00:44:12 - Show Me The Compute* 00:45:32 - Quiet Speculations* 00:49:21 - Time’s Up* 00:50:37 - People Just Say Things* 00:53:46 - OpenAI PACs Just Say Things* 00:57:20 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:00:16 - Chip City* 01:04:04 - Pick Up The Phone* 01:04:33 - The Week in Audio* 01:04:50 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:11:14 - Missing Mood* 01:18:07 - Americans Really Hate AI* 01:20:33 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:25:54 - Greetings From The Department of War* 01:30:28 - Messages From Janusworld* 01:30:48 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-169-new-knowledge?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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Childhood And Education #19: Letting Kids Be Kids #2
2w ago00:22:04Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:35 - People Don’t Let Kids Do Things* 03:26 - Half The People Are Worse Than Average* 04:29 - Let Your Children Play* 05:53 - Don’t Fear The CPS* 10:14 - Daycare* 13:13 - Daycare Costs* 15:39 - Lying* 17:53 - Iterated Games* 18:31 - Different Kids Are Different* 19:22 - Punishmentshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/childhood-and-education-19-letting?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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Dating Roundup #12: Sex and Violence
2w ago00:48:26Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:13 - You’re Single Because You Suck At Kissing* 01:21 - You’re Not Single But You’re Sexually Incompatible* 02:48 - You’re Single Because You Aren’t Into BDSM* 08:19 - You’re Single Because You Didn’t Do The Work* 16:18 - You’re Single Because Being a Dominant Is Too Much Work* 23:15 - You’re Single And Would Rather Be Free Use* 26:02 - You’re Single Because You Wouldn’t or Did Choke Her* 27:37 - You’re Single Because You Have Very Particular Preferences* 29:18 - You’re Single Because of Polygyny* 30:19 - You’re Single Because Polyamory Isn’t Right For You* 33:58 - You’re Single And Call It Solo Polyamory* 37:55 - You’re Single Because You Didn’t Go To Slutcon* 45:49 - You’re Single So Let’s Marry Aellahttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/dating-roundup-12-sex-and-violence?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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Monthly Roundup #42: May 2026
3w ago00:47:20Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:15 - Hanta Hanta I Don’t Wanta* 04:18 - Bad News* 08:42 - Predictions Can Be Easy Even About The Future* 08:50 - Good Advice* 11:49 - The Efficient Market Hypothesis Is False* 13:48 - There Are Four Skills* 16:31 - While I Cannot Condone This* 21:07 - Good News, Everyone* 21:48 - For Your Entertainment* 22:19 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game* 24:22 - The Spire Sleeps And So Shall I* 29:42 - I Was Promised Flying, Scratch that, Self-Driving Cars* 32:13 - Government Working* 35:58 - Jones Act Watch* 41:55 - Technology Advances* 43:04 - I Said Woo Hoo* 44:31 - Variously Effective Altruism* 45:04 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-42-may-2026?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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