Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

<p>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.</p><p>* 00:00:00 - Introduction</p><p>* 00:00:35 - Table of Contents</p><p>* 00:02:17 - Levels of Friction</p><p>* 00:06:42 - The Art Of The Jailbreak</p><p>* 00:08:17 - The Quest for Sane Regulations</p><p>* 00:14:20 - People Really Hate AI</p><p>* 00:20:47 - A Very Bad Paper</p><p>* 00:28:16 - Rhetorical Innovation</p><p>* 00:35:40 - The Most Forbidden Technique</p><p>* 00:37:03 - Everyone Is Or Should Be Confused About Morality</p><p>* 00:39:01 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult</p><p>* 00:48:35 - We’ll Just Call It Something Else</p><p>* 00:51:10 - Vulnerable World Hypothesis</p><p>* 00:56:10 - Autonomous Killer Robots</p><p>* 00:58:05 - People Will Hand Over Power To The AIs</p><p>* 01:02:09 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone</p><p>* 01:04:20 - Other People Are Not Worried About AI Killing Everyone</p><p>* 01:05:35 - The Lighter Side</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-156-part-2-errors-in-rhetoric?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&#38;utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-156-part-2-errors-in-rhetoric?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</a></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at <a href="https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>

<p>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.</p><p>* 00:00:00 - Introduction</p><p>* 00:02:34 - Table of Contents</p><p>* 00:05:31 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility</p><p>* 00:05:54 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility</p><p>* 00:08:48 - Terms of Service</p><p>* 00:09:31 - On Your Marks</p><p>* 00:10:37 - Choose Your Fighter</p><p>* 00:12:03 - Fun With Media Generation</p><p>* 00:14:58 - Lyria</p><p>* 00:16:43 - Superb Owl</p><p>* 00:17:25 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer</p><p>* 00:17:33 - Deepfaketown And Botpocalypse Soon</p><p>* 00:20:05 - You Drive Me Crazy</p><p>* 00:20:19 - Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This</p><p>* 00:23:32 - They Took Our Jobs</p><p>* 00:29:13 - They Kept Our Agents</p><p>* 00:30:06 - The First Thing We Let AI Do</p><p>* 00:41:34 - Legally Claude</p><p>* 00:44:12 - Predictions Are Hard, Especially About The Future, But Not Impossible</p><p>* 00:50:11 - Many Worlds</p><p>* 00:52:55 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble</p><p>* 00:53:48 - A Bold Prediction</p><p>* 00:54:13 - Brave New World</p><p>* 00:57:40 - Augmented Reality</p><p>* 00:59:19 - Quickly, There’s No Time</p><p>* 01:02:59 - If Anyone Builds It, We Can Avoid Building The Other It And Not Die</p><p>* 01:04:48 - In Other AI News</p><p>* 01:08:46 - Introducing</p><p>* 01:09:26 - Get Involved</p><p>* 01:12:42 - Show Me the Money</p><p>* 01:14:07 - The Week In Audio</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-156-part-1-they-do-mean-the-effect?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&#38;utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-156-part-1-they-do-mean-the-effect?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</a></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at <a href="https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>

<p>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.</p><p>* 00:00:00 - Introduction</p><p>* 00:02:19 - Bad News</p><p>* 00:04:10 - Government Working</p><p>* 00:15:37 - The Epstein Files</p><p>* 00:17:47 - RIP Scott Adams</p><p>* 00:19:51 - News You Can’t Use But Click On Anyway</p><p>* 00:21:04 - We’re Putting Together A Team</p><p>* 00:21:28 - You Can’t Retire, I Quit</p><p>* 00:24:17 - Jones Act Watch</p><p>* 00:35:00 - Variously Effective Altruism</p><p>* 00:36:23 - They Took Our Jobs And Now I Can Relax</p><p>* 00:37:28 - While I Cannot Condone This</p><p>* 00:39:29 - Good News, Everyone</p><p>* 00:41:26 - Use Your One Time</p><p>* 00:44:38 - Hands Off My Phone</p><p>* 00:47:26 - Fun Theory</p><p>* 00:48:57 - Good Advice</p><p>* 00:50:46 - For Your Entertainment</p><p>* 00:53:52 - Plur1bus</p><p>* 00:55:00 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game</p><p>* 01:00:38 - Sports Go Sports</p><p>* 01:05:23 - The Revolution of Retroactive Rising Expectations</p><p>* 01:06:54 - I Was Promised Spying Cars</p><p>* 01:07:44 - Prediction Market Madness</p><p>* 01:11:40 - The Lighter Side</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-39-february-2026?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&#38;utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-39-february-2026?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</a></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at <a href="https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>

<p>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.</p><p>* 00:00 - Introduction</p><p>* 03:16 - Table of Contents</p><p>* 03:52 - Bounded Distrust</p><p>* 06:19 - IN SPACE</p><p>* 11:01 - The AI Will Follow You To Mars</p><p>* 23:46 - xAI Business Plans</p><p>* 27:11 - Optimus Prime</p><p>* 28:22 - Beating China</p><p>* 31:06 - SpaceX and How To Run a Company Elon Style</p><p>* 34:37 - DOGE</p><p>* 37:04 - TeraFab IN SPACE</p><p>* 37:20 - Postscript: Safety Third at xAI</p><p>* 41:56 - Elon Serves Back Saying That Which Is Not</p><p>* 44:31 - Elon’s Army</p><p>* 45:38 - Children Are Our Future</p><p>* 49:29 - Where Do We Go From Here</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/on-dwarkesh-patels-2026-podcast-with-850?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&#38;utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/on-dwarkesh-patels-2026-podcast-with-850?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</a></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at <a href="https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>

<p>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.</p><p>* 00:00 - Introduction</p><p>* 01:40 - Table of Contents</p><p>* 01:52 - The Pace of Progress</p><p>* 09:44 - Continual Learning</p><p>* 15:17 - Does Not Compute</p><p>* 17:07 - Step Two</p><p>* 25:25 - The Quest For Sane Regulations</p><p>* 28:54 - Beating China</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/on-dwarkesh-patels-2026-podcast-with?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&#38;utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/on-dwarkesh-patels-2026-podcast-with?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</a></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at <a href="https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>