Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

Podcast episode for Monthly Roundup #37: December 2026* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:17 - Ban Gain of Function Research* 05:23 - In The Zone* 05:57 - A Price Is A Signal Wrapped In An Incentive* 07:09 - While I Cannot Condone This* 08:48 - The Gift Of Having A Gift To Give Away* 09:27 - Good News, Everyone* 12:18 - Paranoia, Paranoia* 19:35 - A Good Book* 21:21 - For Your Entertainment* 22:59 - And The Warner Sister Dot* 24:57 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game* 27:20 - Think Of The Children* 31:11 - Sports Go Sports* 33:32 - Antisocial Media* 35:02 - Government Working* 39:47 - Variously Effective Altruism* 40:19 - Party Time, Excellent* 43:54 - Waste, Fraud, Abuse But Mostly No One Looked* 45:12 - How You Do AnythingThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-37-december-2026?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for AI #146: Chipping In.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:29 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:03:01 - ChatGPT Needs More Mundane Utility* 00:05:44 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:06 - On Your Marks* 00:08:48 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:10:26 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:12:17 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:12:54 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:13:16 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:13:25 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:15:10 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:21:48 - Americans Really Do Not Like AI* 00:24:58 - Get Involved* 00:26:32 - Introducing* 00:27:25 - Gemini 3 Deep Think* 00:28:38 - In Other AI News* 00:30:57 - This Means War* 00:32:28 - Show Me the Money* 00:32:49 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:34:59 - Quiet Speculations* 00:36:29 - Impossible* 00:39:17 - Can An AI Model Be Too Much?* 00:40:48 - Try Before You Tell People They Cannot Buy* 00:43:20 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:44:22 - The Chinese Are Smart And Have A Lot Of Wind Power* 00:45:26 - White House To Issue AI Executive Order* 00:52:01 - H200 Sales Fallout Continued* 01:00:48 - Democratic Senators React To Allowing H200 Sales* 01:02:14 - Independent Senator Worries About AI* 01:05:17 - The Week in Audio* 01:05:47 - Timelines* 01:07:25 - Scientific Progress Goes Boink* 01:11:28 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:15:28 - Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This* 01:16:28 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:18:13 - What AIs Will Want* 01:22:08 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:26:05 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:28:36 - The Lighter SideThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-146-chipping-in?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for Childhood and Education #15: Got To Get Out.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:23 - Bullying* 03:09 - Discipline Death Spiral* 04:29 - Ban Phones In Schools* 05:53 - At Least Ban Phones During Class Seriously What The Hell* 07:47 - RCT On Banning Phones* 16:09 - Look What You Made Me Do* 17:44 - DEI* 18:55 - Equity Consultants* 20:01 - Rules Are Rules* 20:19 - School Shooting Statistics Are Fake And Active Shooter Drills Must Stop* 22:23 - The War on Childhood* 23:48 - Separation Of School And Home* 24:19 - School Choice* 24:34 - School is Hell* 24:51 - Null Hypothesis Watch* 27:29 - Education Labor Theory of Value* 29:03 - Wrong on the Internet Including About Home School* 46:30 - You Cannot Defer To Experts In A World Like This* 47:25 - The Lighter SideThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/childhood-and-education-15-got-to?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for Selling H200s to China Is Unwise and Unpopular.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:29 - The Announcement* 04:43 - How Bad Would This Be?* 12:55 - Is There A Steelman Case For This Other Than ‘Trade Always Good’?* 17:38 - Compute Is A Key Limiting Factor For China and Chinese Labs* 19:13 - What About That All Important ‘Tech Stack’?* 22:05 - Selling H200s Hurts America In The AI Race* 23:41 - Nvidia Number Did Not Go Up That MuchThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/selling-h200s-to-china-is-unwise?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for Little Echo.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/little-echo?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webI too believe that we will win. Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for DeepSeek v3.2 Is Okay And Cheap But Slow. * 00:00 - Introduction* 00:44 - A Brief History of DeepSeek* 03:52 - Once More, With Feeling* 07:31 - Reading The Paper* 09:27 - Open Language Model Offers Mundane Utility* 12:25 - Those Benchmarks* 17:21 - Open Language Model Doesn’t Offer Mundane Utility* 18:45 - Open Language Model Does Do The Math* 19:59 - I’ll Get You Next Time, GadgetThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/deepseek-v32-is-okay-and-cheap-but?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for AI #145: You’ve Got Soul. * 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:49 - Table of Contents* 00:06:17 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:07:17 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:08:31 - On Your Marks* 00:10:15 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:10:49 - Advertising Is Coming* 00:12:11 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:18:29 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:19:52 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:21:04 - You Drive Me Crazy* 00:21:22 - Unprompted Attention* 00:21:35 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:27:18 - Get Involved* 00:28:30 - Introducing* 00:28:54 - Variously Effective Altruism* 00:32:48 - In Other AI News* 00:35:35 - Show Me the Money* 00:35:41 - Quiet Speculations* 00:36:55 - Seb Krier On Agents Versus Multiagents* 00:44:05 - Olivia Moore Makes 2026 Predictions* 00:47:04 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:48:15 - Americans Really Do Not Like AI* 00:53:47 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:55:55 - My Offer Is Nothing* 01:01:27 - America Pauses* 01:03:08 - David Sacks Covered In New York Times* 01:06:37 - The Week in Audio* 01:07:06 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:07:56 - To The Moon* 01:14:55 - Showing Up* 01:19:29 - DeepMind Pivots Its Interpretability Research* 01:22:33 - The Explicit Goal Of OpenAI Is Recursive Self-Improvement* 01:27:55 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:35:07 - Misaligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence Is Difficult To Hire For* 01:36:02 - You’ve Got Soul* 01:47:16 - Disagreements About Timelines* 01:51:48 - Other Disagreements About Timelines* 01:57:18 - Messages From Janusworld* 01:57:32 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:57:51 - The Lighter SideThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-145-youve-got-soul?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for On Dwarkesh Patel’s Second Interview With Ilya Sutskever.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:47 - Table of Contents* 02:19 - Explaining Model Jaggedness* 03:58 - Emotions and value functions* 05:36 - What are we scaling?* 06:47 - Why humans generalize better than models* 08:10 - Straight-shooting superintelligence* 09:57 - SSI’s model will learn from deployment* 10:59 - Alignment* 20:03 - “We are squarely an age of research company”* 25:15 - Research taste* 27:57 - Bonus Coverage: Dwarkesh Patel on AI Progress These DaysThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/on-dwarkesh-patels-second-interview?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for Reward Mismatches in RL Cause Emergent Misalignment. * 00:00 - Introduction* 02:53 - Abstract Of The Paper* 04:15 - The Problem Statement* 06:16 - The Inoculation Solution* 08:48 - Cleaning The Data Versus Cleaning The Environments* 10:31 - No All Of This Does Not Solve Our Most Important Problems* 15:46 - It Does Help On Important Short Term ProblemsThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/reward-mismatches-in-rl-cause-emergent?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model Available. The 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-45-is-the-best-model?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for Claude Opus 4.5: Model Card, Alignment and Safety.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:50 - Claude Opus 4.5 Basic Facts* 00:03:26 - Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model For Many But Not All Use Cases* 00:06:02 - Misaligned?* 00:09:39 - Section 3: Safeguards and Harmlessness* 00:11:46 - Section 4: Honesty* 00:13:27 - 5: Agentic Safety* 00:21:01 - Section 6: Alignment Overview* 00:29:55 - Alignment Investigations* 00:30:35 - Sycophancy Course Correction Is Lacking* 00:31:52 - Deception* 00:34:29 - Ruling Out Encoded Content In Chain Of Thought* 00:37:19 - Sandbagging* 00:38:10 - Evaluation Awareness* 00:42:18 - Reward Hacking* 00:43:59 - Subversion Strategy* 00:45:30 - 6.13: UK AISI External Testing* 00:45:39 - 6.14: Model Welfare* 00:46:33 - 7: RSP Evaluations* 00:48:12 - CBRN* 00:56:36 - Autonomy* 01:04:27 - Cyber* 01:10:32 - The Whisperers Love The VibesThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-45-model-card-alignment?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for AI #144: Thanks For the Models.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:02:24 - Table of Contents* 00:05:21 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:05:50 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:17 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:09:02 - On Your Marks* 00:10:53 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:11:21 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:19:03 - What Is Slop? How Do You Define Slop?* 00:22:13 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:26:57 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:29:16 - You Drive Me Crazy* 00:33:48 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:34:10 - Think Of The Time I Saved* 00:37:48 - The Art of the Jailbreak* 00:39:01 - Get Involved* 00:39:35 - Introducing* 00:40:18 - In Other AI News* 00:43:16 - Show Me the Money* 00:45:25 - Quiet Speculations* 00:48:12 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:51:00 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:02:06 - Chip City* 01:03:19 - Water Water Everywhere* 01:04:45 - The Week in Audio* 01:06:38 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:12:33 - You Are Not In Control* 01:17:36 - AI 2030* 01:28:18 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:30:58 - Misaligned?* 01:34:01 - Messages From Janusworld* 01:36:09 - The Lighter SideThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-144-thanks-for-the-models?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for The Big Nonprofits Post 2025.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:46 - Table of Contents* 00:08:23 - A Word of Warning* 00:09:40 - A Note To Charities* 00:10:44 - Use Your Personal Theory of Impact* 00:12:34 - Use Your Local Knowledge* 00:13:39 - Unconditional Grants to Worthy Individuals Are Great* 00:16:11 - Do Not Think Only On the Margin, and Also Use Decision Theory* 00:17:15 - Compare Notes With Those Individuals You Trust* 00:17:47 - Beware Becoming a Fundraising Target* 00:18:13 - And the Nominees Are* 00:22:03 - Organizations that Are Literally Me* 00:22:15 - Balsa Research* 00:25:08 - Don’t Worry About the Vase* 00:26:41 - Organizations Focusing On AI Non-Technical Research and Education* 00:27:13 - Lightcone Infrastructure* 00:29:49 - The AI Futures Project* 00:31:31 - Effective Institutions Project (EIP) (For Their Flagship Initiatives)* 00:33:13 - Artificial Intelligence Policy Institute (AIPI)* 00:34:50 - AI Lab Watch* 00:35:55 - Palisade Research* 00:37:02 - CivAI* 00:37:50 - AI Safety Info (Robert Miles)* 00:38:31 - Intelligence Rising* 00:39:18 - Convergence Analysis* 00:40:12 - IASEAI (International Association for Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence)* 00:40:53 - The AI Whistleblower Initiative* 00:41:33 - Organizations Related To Potentially Pausing AI Or Otherwise Having A Strong International AI Treaty* 00:41:41 - Pause AI and Pause AI Global* 00:43:03 - MIRI* 00:44:19 - Existential Risk Observatory* 00:45:16 - Organizations Focusing Primary On AI Policy and Diplomacy* 00:45:55 - Center for AI Safety and the CAIS Action Fund* 00:47:31 - Foundation for American Innovation (FAI)* 00:50:29 - Encode AI (Formerly Encode Justice)* 00:51:31 - The Future Society* 00:52:23 - Safer AI* 00:52:59 - Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS)* 00:54:08 - AI Standards Lab (Holtman Research)* 00:55:14 - Safe AI Forum* 00:55:49 - Center For Long Term Resilience* 00:57:33 - Simon Institute for Longterm Governance* 00:58:30 - Legal Advocacy for Safe Science and Technology* 00:59:42 - Institute for Law and AI* 01:00:21 - Macrostrategy Research Institute* 01:00:51 - Secure AI Project* 01:01:29 - Organizations Doing ML Alignment Research* 01:02:49 - Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR)* 01:04:13 - Alignment Research Center (ARC)* 01:04:51 - Apollo Research* 01:05:43 - Cybersecurity Lab at University of Louisville* 01:06:22 - Timaeus* 01:07:25 - Simplex* 01:07:54 - Far AI* 01:08:28 - Alignment in Complex Systems Research Group* 01:09:10 - Apart Research* 01:10:15 - Transluce* 01:11:21 - Organizations Doing Other Technical Work* 01:11:24 - AI Analysts at RAND* 01:12:17 - Organizations Doing Math, Decision Theory and Agent Foundations* 01:13:39 - Orthogonal* 01:14:28 - Topos Institute* 01:15:24 - Eisenstat Research* 01:16:02 - AFFINE Algorithm Design* 01:16:25 - CORAL (Computational Rational Agents Laboratory)* 01:17:15 - Mathematical Metaphysics Institute* 01:18:21 - Focal at CMU* 01:19:41 - Organizations Doing Cool Other Stuff Including Tech* 01:19:50 - ALLFED* 01:21:33 - Good Ancestor Foundation* 01:22:56 - Charter Cities Institute* 01:23:45 - Carbon Copies for Independent Minds* 01:24:24 - Organizations Focused Primarily on Bio Risk* 01:24:27 - Secure DNA* 01:25:21 - Blueprint Biosecurity* 01:26:06 - Pour Domain* 01:26:53 - ALTER Israel* 01:27:25 - Organizations That Can Advise You Further* 01:28:03 - Effective Institutions Project (EIP) (As A Donation Advisor)* 01:29:08 - Longview Philanthropy* 01:30:44 - Organizations That then Regrant to Fund Other Organizations* 01:32:00 - SFF Itself (!)* 01:33:33 - Manifund* 01:35:33 - AI Risk Mitigation Fund* 01:36:18 - Long Term Future Fund* 01:38:27 - Foresight* 01:39:14 - Centre for Enabling Effective Altruism Learning & Research (CEELAR)* 01:40:08 - Organizations That are Essentially Talent Funnels* 01:42:08 - AI Safety Camp* 01:42:48 - Center for Law and AI Risk* 01:43:52 - Speculative Technologies* 01:44:44 - Talos Network* 01:45:28 - MATS Research* 01:46:12 - Epistea* 01:47:18 - Emergent Ventures* 01:49:02 - AI Safety Cape Town* 01:49:33 - ILINA Program* 01:49:55 - Impact Academy Limited* 01:50:28 - Atlas Computing* 01:51:08 - Principles of Intelligence (Formerly PIBBSS)* 01:52:00 - Tarbell Center* 01:53:15 - Catalyze Impact* 01:54:15 - CeSIA within EffiSciences* 01:55:04 - Stanford Existential Risk Initiative (SERI)* 01:55:49 - Non-Trivial* 01:56:19 - CFAR* 01:57:25 - The Bramble Center* 01:58:20 - Final RemindersThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-big-nonprofits-post-2025?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episdoe for ChatGPT 5.1 Codex Max.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:09 - The Famous METR Graph* 03:07 - The System Card* 04:04 - Basic Disallowed Content* 05:07 - Sandbox* 06:25 - Mitigations For Harmful Tasks and Prompt Injections* 07:06 - Preparedness Framework* 07:28 - Biological and Chemical* 08:40 - Cybersecurity* 14:24 - AI Self-Improvement* 17:17 - ReactionsThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/chatgpt-51-codex-max?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for Gemini 3 Pro Is a Vast Intelligence With No Spine.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:53 - There Is A Catch* 00:03:35 - Andrej Karpathy Cautions Us* 00:04:59 - On Your Marks* 00:17:01 - Defying Gravity* 00:18:32 - The Efficient Market Hypothesis Is False* 00:21:12 - The Product Of A Deranged Imagination* 00:25:44 - Google Employee Hype* 00:29:24 - Matt Shumer Is A Big Fan* 00:30:23 - Roon Eventually Gains Access* 00:30:43 - The Every Vibecheck* 00:32:07 - Positive Reactions* 00:38:09 - Embedding The App* 00:38:26 - The Good, The Bad and The Unwillingness To Be Ugly* 00:42:12 - Genuine People Personalities* 00:43:52 - Game Recognize Game* 00:45:41 - Negative Reactions* 00:49:31 - Code Fails* 00:50:29 - Hallucinations* 00:57:44 - Early Janusworld Reports* 01:02:26 - Where Do We Go From HereThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gemini-3-pro-is-a-vast-intelligence?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for Gemini 3: Model Card and Safety Framework Report.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:31 - Gemini 3 Facts* 02:38 - On Your Marks* 03:54 - Safety Third* 06:05 - Frontier Safety Framework* 06:57 - CBRN* 10:13 - Cybersecurity* 11:51 - Manipulation* 17:42 - Machine Learning R&D* 20:14 - Misalignment* 23:07 - Chain of Thought Legibility* 23:26 - Safety Mitigations* 26:02 - They Close On This Not Troubling At All Note* 27:03 - So, Is It Safe?The 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gemini-3-model-card-and-safety-framework?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for AI #143: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:47 - Table of Contents* 00:06:02 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:58 - Tool, Mind and Weapon* 00:11:16 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:11:39 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:16:07 - First Things First* 00:16:44 - Grok 4.1* 00:20:37 - Misaligned?* 00:24:10 - Codex Of Ultimate Coding* 00:26:41 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:27:07 - On Your Marks* 00:28:15 - Paper Tigers* 00:33:13 - Overcoming Bias* 00:38:40 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:39:15 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:41:28 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:46:40 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:53:01 - On Not Writing* 00:53:27 - Get Involved* 00:54:20 - Introducing* 00:57:09 - In Other AI News* 01:01:22 - Anthropic Completes The Trifecta* 01:03:07 - We Must Protect This House* 01:08:14 - AI Spy Versus AI Spy* 01:14:32 - Show Me the Money* 01:17:30 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 01:21:13 - Quiet Speculations* 01:22:15 - The Amazing Race* 01:27:39 - Of Course You Realize This Means War (One)* 01:31:33 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:34:10 - Chip City* 01:35:03 - Of Course You Realize This Means War (Two)* 01:40:50 - Samuel Hammond on Preemption* 01:47:33 - Of Course You Realize This Means War (Three)* 01:55:53 - The Week in Audio* 01:56:51 - It Takes A Village* 01:57:34 - Rhetorical Innovation* 02:00:49 - Varieties of Doom* 02:01:57 - The Pope Offers Wisdom* 02:03:42 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 02:06:04 - Messages From Janusworld* 02:13:43 - The Lighter SideThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-143-everything-everywhere-all?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for Monthly Roundup #36: November 2025.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:00:17 - Good News, Everyone* 00:01:34 - Good Advice* 00:02:28 - Where’s The Party?* 00:02:47 - Antisocial Media* 00:06:59 - Government Working* 00:18:24 - Jones Act Watch* 00:19:05 - Variously Effective Altruism* 00:22:32 - Great Taste, Less Filling* 00:25:45 - How You Do Anything* 00:26:42 - Bad News* 00:30:13 - The Rage of the Plastic Straw Ban* 00:32:22 - Affordability Politics* 00:32:58 - Monks In The Casino* 00:33:35 - Procrastination Is Bad Actually* 00:34:20 - Many Successful People Adjust Behaviors More* 00:36:03 - Take The Money And Run* 00:38:09 - Work Harder* 00:38:45 - Work Smarter* 00:39:36 - Anti-Suicide Chairs* 00:40:06 - The Great American Songbook* 00:43:47 - For Your Entertainment* 00:46:05 - The Subscription Package Dance* 00:47:50 - Was Television Better Before?* 00:49:31 - The Joys Of Partial Task Automation* 00:50:13 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game* 00:53:53 - Sports Go Sports* 01:05:00 - Sometimes People Cheat At Poker* 01:06:29 - Opportunity Knocks* 01:09:18 - The Lighter SideThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-36-november-2025?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for GPT 5.1 Follows Custom Instructions and Glazes.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:23 - Their Announcement* 04:24 - Their Pitch on GPT-5.1 Instant* 06:26 - Their Pitch on GPT-5.1 Thinking* 09:38 - Now With Extra Glaze* 14:25 - Genuine People Personalities* 15:30 - The End Of The Em-Dash?* 17:35 - Turning A Dial And Looking Back At The Audience* 18:04 - System Card* 20:01 - On Your Marks* 21:36 - Ask Them Anything* 23:39 - Reactions Introduction* 24:08 - Officially Pitched Developer Reactions* 26:28 - Positive Reactions* 32:34 - Personality Reactions* 35:02 - Verbosity Reactions* 36:15 - Negative Reactions* 38:18 - Initial Pliny Report* 39:52 - The hashtag Keep4o Crowd Is Not Happy, Defends 5.0* 43:19 - Overall TakeThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gpt-51-follows-custom-instructions?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for On Writing #2.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:27 - Table of Contents* 01:08 - How I Use AI For Writing These Days* 04:37 - Influencing Influence* 06:29 - Size Matters* 07:15 - Time To Write A Shorter One* 08:43 - A Useful Tool* 08:59 - A Maligned Tool* 11:08 - Neglected Topics* 13:35 - The Humanities Don’t Seem Relevant To Writing About Future Humanity?* 14:51 - Writing Every Day* 15:23 - Writing As Deep Work* 16:27 - Most Of Your Audience Is Secondhand* 19:12 - That’s Funny* 19:56 - Fiction Writing Advice* 20:30 - Just Say The Thing* 24:22 - Cracking the PaywallThe 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.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/on-writing-2?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe