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Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast
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The Once And Future Fable #5
Jul 100:32:56Tap 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* 01:12 - 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 Thishttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-5?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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WSJ Article Claiming China Has Matched Anthropic Is Obvious Nonsense
Jun 2900:10:20Tap 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* 00:23 - Headline News* 02:03 - What Makes Mythos Special* 03:17 - Going Over The Detailed Claims* 07:44 - One Helpful Note* 08:23 - The Overall Impression Is Extremely Wrong* 08:55 - All Of This Has Happened Before And Will Happen Againhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/wsj-article-claiming-china-has-matched?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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GPT-5.6: The System Card
Jun 2801:01:08Tap 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* 00:03:39 - What’s In A Name?* 00:04:14 - Fix This Code* 00:07:04 - Crossover Event Requested* 00:07:38 - Disallowed Content (3)* 00:09:57 - Avoiding Accidental Data-Destructive Actions (3.3)* 00:10:46 - Are You Sure? (3.4)* 00:11:23 - Jailbreaks (4.1)* 00:11:38 - Prompt Injection (4.2)* 00:12:25 - HealthBench (5.1)* 00:13:08 - Dynamic Mental Health Adversarial User Simulations (5.2)* 00:15:02 - Hallucinations (6)* 00:15:29 - Isolated Misaligned Actions (7.1)* 00:15:48 - Going Overboard (7.2)* 00:21:26 - Chain of Thought Evaluations (7.3)* 00:22:38 - Bias (8)* 00:22:43 - Preparedness (9)* 00:23:35 - Biological Risks (9.1.1)* 00:25:37 - Cybersecurity (9.1.2)* 00:33:13 - External Cyber Evaluation FrontierCyber from Irregular (9.1.2.5)* 00:35:15 - Cyber Conclusions* 00:35:52 - Recursive Self-Improvement (9.1.3)* 00:37:26 - METR Warns Us (9.1.3.6)* 00:40:00 - Everything Is Under Control* 00:42:38 - Metagaming (7.4)* 00:46:06 - Apollo Research and Sandbagging* 00:49:04 - Safeguards (9.3)* 00:56:55 - Better Not Call Sol Yethttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gpt-56-the-system-card?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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White House Will Ad Hoc Decide Who Can Individually Access GPT-5.6
Jun 2600:24:22Tap 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 - Part 1: A Maximally Terrible Policy* 06:55 - What Does This Mean For Fable?* 08:33 - Solve For The Equilibrium* 12:39 - The Once And Future Fable* 13:35 - Part 2: The Blame Game* 16:48 - A Parable* 18:59 - What About the Recent Executive Order?* 23:09 - The Problem Is Realhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/white-house-will-ad-hoc-decide-who?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 #174: You're It
Jun 2501:59:31Tap 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* 00:01:07 - Table of Contents* 00:04:36 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:14 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:28 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:06:51 - On Your Marks* 00:07:45 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:14:53 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:15:47 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:18:25 - Overcoming Bias* 00:19:28 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:22:01 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:23:44 - Get Involved* 00:25:55 - Introducing* 00:26:08 - Claude Tag* 00:36:03 - In Other AI News* 00:37:37 - More On GLM-5.2* 00:39:27 - ChatGPT Health* 00:41:10 - Middle Of The Journey* 00:55:44 - New Medical Diagnostic Just Dropped* 00:58:38 - Google on AI Control* 01:08:05 - The Once And Future Fable* 01:10:10 - Fable: The First Lawsuit* 01:11:07 - Dean Ball Joins OpenAI* 01:14:59 - Show Me the Money* 01:15:13 - Quiet Speculations* 01:18:09 - Alex Bores Loses In NY-12 By 4%* 01:30:04 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:32:30 - Chip City* 01:36:12 - The Week in Audio* 01:36:58 - People Just Say Things* 01:38:01 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:43:47 - There Are Two Pills* 01:44:59 - Who Evals The Evals* 01:46:10 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:51:01 - Cooperative Alignment* 01:52:01 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:53:32 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:55:42 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-174-youre-it?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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The Once And Future Fable #4
Jun 2400:29:54Tap 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* 01:54 - A Rather Terrible Policy* 03:21 - The People Have Spoken* 04:00 - Thank You, Next* 06:27 - Be Very Very Quiet* 06:59 - What These Babies Can And Cannot Do* 13:14 - What’s The Worst That Could Happen?* 24:25 - The Data Retention Policy Is About Defense In Depth* 25:12 - Pick Up The Phone* 28:13 - People Just Say Thingshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-4?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 #43: June 2026
Jun 2300:51:57Tap 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* 00:28 - 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 Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-43-june-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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GLM-5.2 Is The New Best Open Model
Jun 2200:21:32Tap 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* 01:57 - 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 Futurehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/glm-52-is-the-new-best-open-model?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 Fable 5 and Mythos 5: Capabilities
Jun 1901:32:10Tap 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* 00:01:11 - 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 Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-fable-5-and-mythos-5-capabilities?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 #173: AI Pauses
Jun 1801:41:14Tap 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* 00:03:06 - 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 Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-173-ai-pauses?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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