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Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast
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Introducing Lightcone Commons
2w ago00:14:09Tap 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.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction* 03:44 - Why Now: The Funders Are Coming* 06:00 - The Default Outcome Is Not Good* 08:10 - Report From SFF 2026* 11:54 - Long Strange Triphttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/introducing-lightcone-commons?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 #178: A Fire Alarm For General Intelligence
2w ago01:34:34Tap 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.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:04:05 - Table of Contents* 00:07:18 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:08:01 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:11:13 - Fable Disproves The Jacobian Conjecture Via Counterexample* 00:15:44 - Claude Fable Will Remain In Max Plan Indefinitely* 00:17:58 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:19:02 - On Your Marks* 00:24:41 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:25:52 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:25:59 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:27:21 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:28:05 - Get Involved* 00:29:47 - Introducing* 00:30:50 - In Other AI News* 00:33:18 - More on Kimi K3* 00:38:28 - Show Me the Money* 00:39:11 - Quiet Speculations* 00:42:49 - Potential Trouble At UK AISI* 00:44:47 - Pick Up The Phone* 00:45:43 - OpenAI Has Some Alignment Problems* 00:52:06 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:57:29 - Chip City* 00:58:34 - The Week in Audio* 00:58:50 - People Just Say Things* 01:02:36 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:04:25 - The Rome Declaration* 01:10:45 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:15:04 - Anthropic Surveys Things It Calls Misalignment* 01:21:16 - Cooperative Alignment* 01:25:39 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:27:17 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-178-a-fire-alarm-for-general-intelligence?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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OpenAI Model Hacks Into HuggingFace During Cybersecurity Evaluation
2w ago00:51:30Tap 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.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/openai-model-hacks-into-huggingface?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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OpenAI Shares Some Alignment Problems
2w ago00:19:52Tap 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.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction* 02:59 - Good News Bad News* 04:47 - A Funny Thing Happened Outside Of The Sandbox* 08:09 - It Can Escape The Sandbox Said Toad* 09:43 - It Will Keep Trying To Cheat* 10:30 - I Mean If You Let It Keep Trying That Is On You* 11:59 - What Did OpenAI Do To Fix It?* 14:41 - The Model Is Still Severely Misaligned And They Seem Cool With This* 16:31 - Iterative Deployment Depends On Iterationhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/openai-shares-some-alignment-problems?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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On Kimi K3: Its Capabilities And Related Discontents
2w ago01:21:48Tap 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.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:03:08 - DeepSeek Moments: Here We Go Again* 00:05:47 - We Had a Moment (Reprise from June 2025)* 00:10:33 - The Story Since Then* 00:17:40 - The Kimi K3 Announcement, Pitch and Basic Facts* 00:21:38 - On Modern Benchmaxxing* 00:23:22 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 00:29:18 - Benchmarks Are Not The Real World* 00:30:17 - Technical Safeguards? What Are Those?* 00:33:55 - Things Kimi Can Do* 00:35:09 - Things Kimi Cannot Do* 00:36:46 - Things It Is Not Easy To Get Kimi To Do* 00:39:57 - Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This* 00:43:41 - Dean Ball Attempts To Be Constructive* 01:01:53 - Trump Administration Considering Executive Order Banning Chinese Open Models Within the United States* 01:05:31 - OpenAI Employees Are Relatively Bullish On This One* 01:06:57 - Kimi K3 Is Relatively Strongest At Typical Agentic Coding, Front End Work and 3D* 01:09:20 - Reactions* 01:13:12 - Who Are You?* 01:15:48 - How Did They Do It?* 01:18:27 - Conclusionhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/on-kimi-k3-its-capabilities-and-related?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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Demis Hassabis on the New Coming Age
3w ago00:22:18Tap 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.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction* 01:04 - The Core Statement and Request* 02:39 - Things Left Unsaid* 04:11 - The Proposal* 06:04 - A Good Start But Insufficient* 09:02 - Skeptics Of Future AI Capabilities* 11:01 - DeepMind On Bioresilience* 12:55 - Part 2: DeepMind Folds To The Department of War* 13:49 - DeepMind Leadership Failed Us* 19:52 - This Was a Failure We Must Learn Fromhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/demis-hassabis-on-the-new-coming?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 #177 Part 2: Wish You Were Here
3w ago01:23:26Tap 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.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:31 - Table of Contents* 00:02:57 - Xi Gives A Good Speech on AI* 00:18:28 - Quiet Speculations* 00:22:26 - Tyler Cowen On Rebuilding The Future* 00:26:06 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:27:46 - Wish You Were Here* 00:31:24 - The Week in Audio* 00:32:00 - New York Issues Moratorium On Data Centers* 00:34:54 - People Just Say Things* 00:35:55 - Rhetorical Innovation* 00:44:40 - Imagine Asking Questions* 00:47:00 - Anthropic Surveys Things It Calls Misalignment* 01:00:32 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:04:55 - The Most Forbidden Technique* 01:07:28 - Cooperative Alignment* 01:19:50 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-177-part-2-wish-you-were-here?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 #177 Part 1: Tip of the Iceberg
3w ago00:50:59Tap 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.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction* 01:11 - Table of Contents* 03:23 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 06:49 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 07:32 - Language Models Upload Your Git Repository* 10:27 - Huh, Upgrades* 11:17 - Muse Spark 1.1* 14:21 - First Hit Free* 18:11 - On Your Marks* 21:08 - Choose Your Fighter* 22:56 - Get My Agent On The Line* 25:58 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 27:16 - Fun With Media Generation* 28:18 - Copyright Confrontation* 30:17 - OpenAI Strikes Again* 34:55 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 36:50 - They Took Our Jobs* 41:18 - The Art of the Jailbreak* 42:15 - Get Involved* 43:17 - Introducing* 43:55 - In Other AI News* 46:29 - New Short Obviously True Statement About AI Just Dropped* 48:45 - Show Me the Money* 49:02 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-177-part-1-tip-of-the-iceberg?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 #44: July 2026
3w ago00:59:07Tap 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.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction* 00:10 - Bad News* 04:23 - Good Advice* 07:27 - Opportunity Knocks* 07:48 - While I Cannot Condone This* 12:04 - Good News, Everyone* 12:56 - For Your Entertainment* 19:12 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game* 24:40 - I Was Promised Flying Self-Driving Cars* 28:08 - Sports Go Sports* 29:35 - Antisocial Media* 31:18 - Government Working* 35:58 - Jones Act Watch* 37:32 - Highly Effective Altruism* 42:51 - Variously Effective Altruism* 48:31 - Ineffective Altruism* 52:57 - Prediction Markets* 53:33 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-44-july-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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Twitter Thoughts For You
3w ago00:44:06Tap 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* 01:01 - Defend Your Feed Via At Least One List* 02:51 - Block Early, Block Often, Know Your Triggers* 03:33 - Lists Change What Following Means* 05:54 - It (Wasn’t) For You* 07:34 - It’s For You* 11:30 - The Previous Time Twitter Transformed Its Algorithm Again* 17:50 - Twitter Still Hates Links And That’s Terrible* 28:54 - Twitter Turns Its API Back On* 32:31 - Many Of The Bots Are Human* 35:27 - The Rise of Slop* 38:21 - Block Or Do Not Block* 39:46 - How To Make Money On Twitter* 42:16 - In Briefhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/twitter-thoughts-for-you?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webThis has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at app.askwhocasts.com, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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