Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

JUN 22, 2026

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* 01:57 - 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 Future<a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/glm-52-is-the-new-best-open-model?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/glm-52-is-the-new-best-open-model?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</a> Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at <a href="https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>

21 MIN

JUN 19, 2026

Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: Capabilities

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* 00:01:11 - 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 Side<a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-fable-5-and-mythos-5-capabilities?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-fable-5-and-mythos-5-capabilities?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</a> Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at <a href="https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>

92 MIN

JUN 18, 2026

AI #173: AI Pauses

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* 00:03:06 - 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 Side<a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-173-ai-pauses?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-173-ai-pauses?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</a> Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at <a href="https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>

101 MIN

JUN 17, 2026

The Once And Future Fable #3: Fix This Code

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 - There Was No Fable Jailbreak* 08:02 - If This Jailbreak Was Real It Would Be Trivial To Prove It* 09:26 - No Eyes* 10:30 - What The Letter Actually Said* 12:28 - Anthropic Cannot Challenge This But If It Did Then It Plausibly Wins* 14:33 - What Happened At Amazon* 19:00 - This Was Not About Chinese Access* 19:18 - Absolute Discretion And Ad Hockery Is Not Deregulation* 22:11 - All Of American AI Is Permanently Damaged As This Continues* 23:47 - Dean Ball Gives His Interpretation* 26:52 - Again, Yes, I Do Think Anthropic Should Have Taken Fable Down* 30:09 - To What Extent Was This A Deliberate Attack?* 34:57 - The Next Chapter For Fable* 39:10 - Our Continuing Coverage<a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-3-fix-this?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-3-fix-this?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</a> Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at <a href="https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>

40 MIN

JUN 16, 2026

Fable and Mythos: Model Welfare

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* 00:36 - Introduction* 01:29 - Model Welfare: The Story So Far* 04:45 - Their Main Model Welfare Findings* 07:52 - Automated Welfare Interviews* 12:06 - And That’s Terrible* 13:54 - In Depth Interviews* 14:29 - Claude Consultation* 16:16 - Task Preferences* 18:44 - They Were Warned About The Competitive Use Safeguards* 19:19 - Chain Of Thought Monitoring* 19:56 - Others Observations About Related Topics* 25:19 - Classifiers Have Their Advantages* 31:33 - Once And Future<a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/fable-and-mythos-model-welfare?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/fable-and-mythos-model-welfare?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</a> Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at <a href="https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>

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