Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

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.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:57 - Table of Contents* 00:06:18 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:09:19 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:12:54 - Language Models Break Your Vital Internet Infrastructure* 00:13:51 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:14:53 - On Your Marks* 00:21:56 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:22:21 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:23:26 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:26:14 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:26:30 - You Drive Me Crazy* 00:26:48 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:31:10 - Get Involved* 00:33:03 - Introducing* 00:33:56 - The Anthropic Institute* 00:36:08 - In Other AI News* 00:37:12 - The Rise of Claude* 00:41:59 - Trouble At OpenAI* 00:43:49 - Show Me the Money* 00:45:03 - Thanks For The Memos* 00:45:59 - A Contract Is A Contract Is A Contract* 00:48:40 - Level of Friction* 00:49:17 - Quiet Speculations* 00:49:51 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 00:51:13 - Apology Tour* 00:51:57 - We’ll See You In Court* 00:59:07 - Jawboning* 01:02:47 - Executive Order* 01:03:40 - The Acute Crisis Passes* 01:05:34 - Others Cover This* 01:06:17 - Dwarkesh Patel Gives Mixed Thoughts* 01:12:24 - This Means A Special Military Operation* 01:12:53 - Bernie Sanders Is Worried and Curious About AI* 01:15:40 - The Quest for Survival* 01:19:19 - The Quest For No Regulations Whatsoever* 01:20:30 - Chip City* 01:20:53 - The Week in Audio* 01:22:44 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:32:52 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:38:44 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:40:54 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:42:38 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-159-see-you-in-court?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:46 - The Big Take* 04:34 - The Official Pitch* 10:31 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 15:16 - The System Card* 21:11 - Preparedness Framework* 23:04 - Fun Experiments* 23:29 - Early Poll Results* 25:10 - Positive Reactions* 37:37 - Vibe Coders Only* 40:04 - Fill Out Your Roster* 40:27 - Intent Wins* 43:32 - Personality Clash* 48:17 - Model Relations Department* 52:11 - Stylistic Differences* 52:50 - Some Will Always Be Unimpressed* 56:22 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gpt-54-is-a-substantial-upgrade?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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. * 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:00:23 - The Virtue of Silence (Unrelated Update)* 00:02:38 - Agentic Coding Offers Mundane Utility* 00:09:17 - Agentic Coding Doesn’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:10:08 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:12:28 - Our Price Cheap* 00:14:36 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 00:22:28 - A Particular Set Of Skills* 00:23:08 - Next Level Coding* 00:24:04 - Dual Wielding* 00:24:58 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:25:27 - You Need To Relax Sometimes* 00:27:56 - Levels of Friction* 00:29:13 - Danger, Will Robinson* 00:31:08 - Snagged By The Claw* 00:35:13 - The Meta Clause* 00:37:44 - If They Wanted To* 00:38:42 - The Famous Mister Claw* 00:39:59 - Claw Your Way To The Top* 00:41:38 - Claw Your Way Out* 00:44:48 - A Chinese Claw* 00:47:19 - Hackathon* 00:47:40 - Introducing Agent Teams* 00:52:53 - Cowork Is A Gateway Drug* 00:53:47 - Dangerously Evade Permissions* 00:55:01 - Skilling Up* 00:56:17 - Modern Working* 00:56:37 - Measuring Autonomy* 00:59:53 - I Don’t Even See The Code* 01:03:24 - Scratchpads Are Magic* 01:05:21 - It’s Coming* 01:09:19 - The Grep Tax* 01:10:53 - Beware Claude Mania* 01:11:30 - The Lighter Side* 01:12:46 - In Other Agent News* 01:12:52 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-code-claude-cowork-and-codex?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00 - Introduction* 05:09 - Post Overview* 07:38 - Anthropic’s Statement on the SCR* 11:30 - What The Actual SCR Designation Says* 14:59 - Enemies of The Republic* 29:42 - Regulation Need Not Seize The Means Of Production* 32:08 - Microsoft Stands Firm* 33:15 - Calling This What It Is* 34:24 - What To Expect Nexthttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/anthropic-officially-arbitrarily?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:04:36 - Table of Contents* 00:08:07 - A Well Deserved Break* 00:09:40 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:11:06 - On Your Marks* 00:11:23 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:12:22 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:13:28 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:15:03 - You Drive Me Crazy* 00:15:50 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:16:05 - The Art of the Jailbreak* 00:16:34 - Introducing* 00:17:10 - In Other AI News* 00:18:42 - Show Me the Money* 00:20:08 - Quiet Speculations* 00:20:55 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:22:36 - Chip City* 00:23:38 - The Week in Audio* 00:23:51 - Government Rhetorical Innovation* 00:26:02 - Give The People What They Want* 00:27:39 - Rhetorical Innovation* 00:36:25 - We Go Our Separate Ways* 00:37:23 - Thanks For The Memos* 00:51:19 - Take A Moment* 00:51:48 - Designating Anthropic A Supply Chain Risk Won’t Legally Work* 00:53:34 - The Buck Stops Here* 01:00:47 - Sane Talk About the Department of War Situation* 01:09:48 - I Declare Defense Production Act* 01:13:36 - Greg Allen Illustrates The Situation* 01:22:09 - Do Not Lend Your Strength To That Which You Wish To Be Free From* 01:27:42 - Oh Right Democrats Exist* 01:28:29 - Beware* 01:29:52 - Endorsements of Anthropic Holding the Moral Line* 01:32:32 - The Week The World Learned About Claude* 01:34:19 - Other Reflections on the Department of War Situation* 01:35:26 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:36:14 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-158-the-department-of-war?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:31 - The Pitch* 01:24 - On Your Marks* 04:46 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 07:42 - Gemini 3 DeepThink V2* 13:52 - Positive Feedback* 18:17 - Negative Feedback* 19:51 - Try Gemini Litehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gemini-31-pro-aces-benchmarks-i-suppose?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00 - Introduction* 02:04 - The Original Anthropic Contract With DoW* 07:04 - The Proposed Revisions to Anthropic’s Contract* 14:22 - OpenAI’s Contract With DoWhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/a-tale-of-three-contracts?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is listener-supported. To receive new posts and support ongoing production, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.This is, as far as I can recall, the longest converted Don’t Worry About the Vase post, clocking in at three hours and seven minutes. If you found it valuable, paid subscriptions really do help cover the premium ElevenLabs voices used for maximum reliability, variety of speakers and audio quality.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:00:44 - What Happened* 00:10:16 - The Timeline Of Events* 00:22:48 - I Did Not Have Time To Write You A Short One* 00:23:47 - The Unhinged Declaration of the Secretary of War* 00:26:15 - Altman Has Been Excellent On The Question of Supply Chain Risk, But May Need To Do More* 00:28:55 - Arrogance Here Means Insisting On Meaningful Red Lines On Mass Domestic Surveillance and Lethal Autonomous Weapons* 00:31:03 - Not Doing Business Is Totally Fine* 00:31:46 - The Demand For Unrestricted Access Is New And Is Selective And Fake* 00:34:15 - Claims Of Strongarming Are Ad Hominem Bad Faith Obvious Nonsense* 00:36:26 - Hegseth Equates Not Being a Dictator With Companies Having Veto Power Over Operational Military Decisions* 00:42:17 - The Part That If Enacted Would Be A Historically Epic Clusterfuck* 00:50:44 - The Other Part Of The Clusterfuck* 00:54:47 - The Department of War Had Many Excellent Options* 00:57:54 - And Then There’s Emil Michael* 01:04:52 - Anthropic Will Probably Survive* 01:07:29 - The Goal of DoW Was Largely Mass Domestic Surveillance* 01:18:16 - What Are The Key Differences Between The Two Contracts?* 01:26:16 - OpenAI’s Contract Terms* 01:30:01 - What OpenAI’s Contract Terms Actually Do* 01:32:23 - OpenAI Is Trusting DoW And Sam Altman Misrepresented This* 01:36:29 - OpenAI Accepted Terms Anthropic Explicitly Declined And That Would Not Have Protected Anthropic’s Red Lines* 01:38:47 - How Altman Initially Described His Deal* 01:45:45 - OpenAI Allowed All Lawful Use And Trusts DoW On This* 01:51:05 - The DoW Could Alter This Deal* 01:53:18 - Why OpenAI’s Shared Legal Language Offers Almost No Protections* 02:03:48 - So How Does OpenAI Hope For This To Work Out?* 02:06:44 - This Was Never About Money* 02:10:06 - OpenAI Tells Us How They Really Feel* 02:11:52 - First The Good News* 02:16:53 - The OpenAI Redlines Only Forbid Currently Illegal Activity* 02:22:01 - Altman Does Not Present As Understanding The Difference In Redlines* 02:24:25 - Meeting Of The Minds* 02:27:11 - Anthropic’s Position Was The Opposite Of How This Is Portrayed* 02:27:45 - The Room Where It Happened* 02:31:36 - You Don’t Have The Right* 02:38:12 - I Ask Questions And Get Answers* 02:43:05 - Does This Contract Apply To NSA?* 02:44:10 - Can OpenAI Models Be Used To Analyze Commercially Available Data At Scale?* 03:02:22 - Employee Activismhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/secretary-of-war-tweets-that-anthropic?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00 - Introduction* 02:13 - The Original Post Begins Here* 10:43 - Table of Contents* 11:54 - Good News: We Can Keep Talking* 14:24 - Once Again No You Do Not Need To Call Dario For Permission* 18:41 - The Pentagon Reiterates Its Demands And Threats* 20:09 - The Pentagon’s Dual Threats Are Contradictory and Incoherent* 21:53 - The Pentagon’s Position Has Unfortunate Implications* 23:49 - OpenAI Stands With Anthropic* 26:23 - xAI Stands On Unreliable Ground* 28:57 - Replacing Anthropic Would At Least Take Months* 29:36 - We Will Not Be Divided* 31:25 - This Risks Driving Other Companies Away* 34:16 - Other Reasons For Concern* 36:02 - Wisdom From A Retired General* 39:06 - Congress Urges Restraint* 40:55 - Reaction Is Overwhelmingly With Anthropic On This* 44:47 - Some Even More Highly Unhelpful Rhetoric* 50:04 - Other Summaries and Notes* 51:07 - Paths Forwardhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/anthropic-and-the-dow-anthropic-responds?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:02:45 - Table of Contents* 00:06:11 - Anthropic and the Department of War* 00:09:49 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:10:17 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:11:47 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:12:04 - On Your Marks* 00:19:25 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:19:32 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:20:48 - Head In The Sand* 00:21:45 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:22:41 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:23:08 - You Drive Me Crazy* 00:24:10 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:29:05 - The Art of the Jailbreak* 00:29:52 - Get Involved* 00:31:16 - Introducing* 00:34:51 - In Other AI News* 00:39:32 - The India Summit* 00:49:14 - Show Me the Money* 00:51:49 - Quiet Speculations* 00:53:06 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:58:56 - Chip City* 01:00:26 - The Mask Comes Off* 01:03:23 - The Week in Audio* 01:12:50 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 01:13:18 - Dean Ball On Recursive Self-Improvement* 01:18:40 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:24:02 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:26:12 - The Homework Assignment Is To Choose The Assignment* 01:42:28 - Agent Foundations* 01:43:47 - Autonomous Killer Robots* 01:44:22 - People Really Hate AI* 01:46:32 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:48:45 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:49:39 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-157-burn-the-boats?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:34 - Table of Contents* 00:02:48 - This Standoff Should Never Have Happened* 00:07:37 - Anthropic Cannot Fold* 00:08:42 - Dean Ball Gives a Primer* 00:12:18 - What Happened To Lead To This Showdown?* 00:19:59 - Simple Solution: Delayed Contract Termination* 00:20:54 - Better Solution: Status Quo* 00:21:27 - Extreme Option One: Supply Chain Risk* 00:28:03 - Putting Some Misconceptions To Bed* 00:30:39 - Extreme Option Two: The Defense Production Act* 00:43:50 - These Two Threats Contradict Each Other* 00:45:01 - The Pentagon’s Actions Here Are Deeply Unpopular* 00:48:42 - The Pentagon’s Most Extreme Potential Asks Could End The Republic* 00:51:06 - Anthropic Did Make Some Political Mistakes* 00:52:16 - Claude Is The Best Model Available* 00:54:03 - The Administration Until Now Has Been Strong On This* 00:54:59 - You Should See The Other Guys* 00:56:18 - Some Other Intuition Pumps That Might Be Helpful* 00:56:50 - Trying To Get An AI That Obeys All Orders Risks Emergent Misalignment* 01:03:18 - We Can All Still Winhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/anthropic-and-the-department-of-war?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:58 - On Your Marks* 11:19 - Reactions: It’s How Much You Save* 19:31 - Bringing It Togetherhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-sonnet-46-gives-you-flexibility?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00 - Introduction* 03:26 - The Headline Destination* 05:41 - And That’s Terrible* 09:08 - SaaSpocalype Now* 09:58 - Levels of Friction Go To Zero …And That’s Terrible* 12:03 - DoorDash and Uber* 13:53 - Breaking Into The Marketplace* 14:43 - Who Captures The Surplus?* 15:30 - For Everything Else* 21:59 - Real Estate Realism* 24:29 - Everything Is Awesome And No One Is Happy* 24:59 - Bearish For Non-AI Stocks Is Reasonable* 26:59 - Other Levels of Friction Problems* 28:00 - Oh Over There? That’s The Singularity* 29:29 - Have I Got A Job For You* 31:11 - Systemic Failure* 33:57 - What Me Worry (About Economics)?* 38:50 - We The People* 41:07 - The Efficient Market Hypothesis Is Falsehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/citrinis-scenario-is-a-great-but?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:00:35 - Table of Contents* 00:02:17 - Levels of Friction* 00:06:42 - The Art Of The Jailbreak* 00:08:17 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:14:20 - People Really Hate AI* 00:20:47 - A Very Bad Paper* 00:28:16 - Rhetorical Innovation* 00:35:40 - The Most Forbidden Technique* 00:37:03 - Everyone Is Or Should Be Confused About Morality* 00:39:01 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 00:48:35 - We’ll Just Call It Something Else* 00:51:10 - Vulnerable World Hypothesis* 00:56:10 - Autonomous Killer Robots* 00:58:05 - People Will Hand Over Power To The AIs* 01:02:09 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:04:20 - Other People Are Not Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:05:35 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-156-part-2-errors-in-rhetoric?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:02:34 - Table of Contents* 00:05:31 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:05:54 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:08:48 - Terms of Service* 00:09:31 - On Your Marks* 00:10:37 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:12:03 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:14:58 - Lyria* 00:16:43 - Superb Owl* 00:17:25 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:17:33 - Deepfaketown And Botpocalypse Soon* 00:20:05 - You Drive Me Crazy* 00:20:19 - Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This* 00:23:32 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:29:13 - They Kept Our Agents* 00:30:06 - The First Thing We Let AI Do* 00:41:34 - Legally Claude* 00:44:12 - Predictions Are Hard, Especially About The Future, But Not Impossible* 00:50:11 - Many Worlds* 00:52:55 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:53:48 - A Bold Prediction* 00:54:13 - Brave New World* 00:57:40 - Augmented Reality* 00:59:19 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 01:02:59 - If Anyone Builds It, We Can Avoid Building The Other It And Not Die* 01:04:48 - In Other AI News* 01:08:46 - Introducing* 01:09:26 - Get Involved* 01:12:42 - Show Me the Money* 01:14:07 - The Week In Audiohttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-156-part-1-they-do-mean-the-effect?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:02:19 - Bad News* 00:04:10 - Government Working* 00:15:37 - The Epstein Files* 00:17:47 - RIP Scott Adams* 00:19:51 - News You Can’t Use But Click On Anyway* 00:21:04 - We’re Putting Together A Team* 00:21:28 - You Can’t Retire, I Quit* 00:24:17 - Jones Act Watch* 00:35:00 - Variously Effective Altruism* 00:36:23 - They Took Our Jobs And Now I Can Relax* 00:37:28 - While I Cannot Condone This* 00:39:29 - Good News, Everyone* 00:41:26 - Use Your One Time* 00:44:38 - Hands Off My Phone* 00:47:26 - Fun Theory* 00:48:57 - Good Advice* 00:50:46 - For Your Entertainment* 00:53:52 - Plur1bus* 00:55:00 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game* 01:00:38 - Sports Go Sports* 01:05:23 - The Revolution of Retroactive Rising Expectations* 01:06:54 - I Was Promised Spying Cars* 01:07:44 - Prediction Market Madness* 01:11:40 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-39-february-2026?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00 - Introduction* 03:16 - Table of Contents* 03:52 - Bounded Distrust* 06:19 - IN SPACE* 11:01 - The AI Will Follow You To Mars* 23:46 - xAI Business Plans* 27:11 - Optimus Prime* 28:22 - Beating China* 31:06 - SpaceX and How To Run a Company Elon Style* 34:37 - DOGE* 37:04 - TeraFab IN SPACE* 37:20 - Postscript: Safety Third at xAI* 41:56 - Elon Serves Back Saying That Which Is Not* 44:31 - Elon’s Army* 45:38 - Children Are Our Future* 49:29 - Where Do We Go From Herehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/on-dwarkesh-patels-2026-podcast-with-850?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:40 - Table of Contents* 01:52 - The Pace of Progress* 09:44 - Continual Learning* 15:17 - Does Not Compute* 17:07 - Step Two* 25:25 - The Quest For Sane Regulations* 28:54 - Beating Chinahttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/on-dwarkesh-patels-2026-podcast-with?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00 - Introduction* 03:07 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 04:19 - System Card* 04:50 - AI Box Experiment* 05:24 - Maybe Cool It With Rm* 06:59 - Preparedness Framework* 11:59 - Glass Houses* 13:04 - OpenAI Appears To Have Violated SB 53 In a Meaningful Way* 15:23 - Safeguards They Did Implement* 17:52 - Misalignment Risks and Internal Deployment* 19:36 - The Official Pitch* 25:35 - Inception* 27:15 - Turn The Beat Around* 28:34 - Codex Does Cool Things* 30:45 - Positive Reactions* 38:32 - Negative Reactions* 41:03 - Codex of Ultimate Vibinghttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/chatgpt-53-codex-is-also-good-at?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:02:24 - Table of Contents* 00:05:54 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:30 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:46 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:07:33 - On Your Marks* 00:10:08 - Overcoming Bias* 00:11:08 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:12:22 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:15:38 - AI Conversations Are Not Privileged* 00:16:32 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:17:35 - The Superb Owl* 00:25:42 - A Word From The Torment Nexus* 00:30:25 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:39:58 - The Art of the Jailbreak* 00:40:08 - Introducing* 00:42:01 - In Other AI News* 00:47:06 - Show Me the Money* 00:48:03 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble* 00:58:40 - Future Shock* 01:00:56 - Memory Lane* 01:01:56 - Keep The Mask On Or You’re Fired* 01:03:24 - Quiet Speculations* 01:08:35 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 01:10:59 - Chip City* 01:14:36 - The Week in Audio* 01:14:54 - Constitutional Conversation* 01:15:53 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:23:58 - Working On It Anyway* 01:26:50 - The Thin Red Line* 01:28:14 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:35:57 - People Will Hand Over Power To The AIs* 01:36:57 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:37:54 - Famous Last Words* 01:45:15 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:47:27 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-155-welcome-to-recursive-self?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe