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 - Introduction</p><p>* 02:42 - The Official Pitch</p><p>* 08:28 - Our Price Cheap</p><p>* 09:08 - Official Benchmarks</p><p>* 17:24 - SemiAnalysis Doublecheck</p><p>* 18:40 - Other People’s Benchmarks</p><p>* 21:51 - Vend That Bench</p><p>* 25:34 - Planning Is Essential</p><p>* 27:13 - Choose Your Fighter</p><p>* 28:53 - Cyber Lack Of Security</p><p>* 29:21 - You Get What You Give</p><p>* 30:27 - True Story</p><p>* 31:31 - Ethan Mollick Thinks GPT-five point five Is A Big Deal</p><p>* 32:00 - SemiAnalysis Loves GPT-five point five Especially In Codex</p><p>* 34:30 - Choose Your Fighter</p><p>* 35:04 - Positive Reactions</p><p>* 42:35 - Lazy and Literal</p><p>* 43:39 - Goblins, Gremlins and Trolls, Oh My</p><p>* 45:13 - Other Reactions</p><p>* 45:42 - Claude Ambition</p><p>* 46:04 - Other Notes</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gpt-55-capabilities-and-reactions?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&#38;utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gpt-55-capabilities-and-reactions?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>* 02:48 - Pro Versus Proxy</p><p>* 03:10 - Disallowed Content (3.1)</p><p>* 05:29 - Don’t Delete Data (3.3)</p><p>* 06:30 - Confirmation Confirmation (3.4)</p><p>* 06:56 - Jailbreaks (4.1)</p><p>* 07:07 - Prompt Injections (4.2)</p><p>* 08:38 - Health (5)</p><p>* 09:01 - Hallucinations (6)</p><p>* 10:16 - Alignment (7)</p><p>* 14:48 - Bias Evaluation (8)</p><p>* 15:16 - Preparedness (9)</p><p>* 16:17 - Bio (9.1.1)</p><p>* 18:30 - Cybersecurity (9.1.2)</p><p>* 20:53 - Self-Improvement (9.1.3)</p><p>* 21:50 - Sandbagging (9.2)</p><p>* 22:53 - Safeguards (9.3)</p><p>* 24:52 - What About Model Welfare?</p><p>* 25:42 - Would This Have Identified A Problem?</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gpt-55-the-system-card?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&#38;utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gpt-55-the-system-card?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>* 00:00:24 - Bad News</p><p>* 00:04:58 - Good Advice</p><p>* 00:06:10 - Opportunity Knocks</p><p>* 00:06:38 - Who Judges The Judges</p><p>* 00:08:28 - Close Socrates</p><p>* 00:14:40 - While I Cannot Condone This</p><p>* 00:16:11 - Good News, Everyone</p><p>* 00:17:05 - Violence Is Never The Answer</p><p>* 00:17:47 - For Your Entertainment</p><p>* 00:21:59 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game</p><p>* 00:25:15 - I’ve Got The Magic In Me</p><p>* 00:31:48 - I Was Promised (Flying), scratch that, Self-Driving Cars</p><p>* 00:37:26 - Sports Go Sports</p><p>* 00:41:25 - Robot Umps Now</p><p>* 00:43:09 - The NBA Needs A Redesign</p><p>* 00:49:28 - Government Working</p><p>* 00:57:19 - Levels of Friction</p><p>* 00:58:11 - Jones Act Watch</p><p>* 01:03:13 - Technology Advances</p><p>* 01:03:40 - Variously Effective Altruism</p><p>* 01:10:19 - Copious Free Time</p><p>* 01:11:54 - The Lighter Side</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-41-april-2025?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&#38;utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-41-april-2025?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>00:02:10 - Table of Contents</p><p>00:05:52 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility</p><p>00:07:12 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility</p><p>00:07:47 - Writing You Off</p><p>00:10:54 - Get My Agent On The Line</p><p>00:11:41 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon</p><p>00:13:57 - Fun With Media Generation</p><p>00:17:56 - Cyber Lack Of Security</p><p>00:20:24 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer</p><p>00:21:29 - They Took Our Jobs</p><p>00:25:54 - AI As Normal Technology</p><p>00:29:38 - Get Involved</p><p>00:31:30 - Introducing</p><p>00:33:40 - Design By Claude</p><p>00:35:21 - In Other AI News</p><p>00:35:46 - DeepMind In It Deep</p><p>00:39:37 - Show Me the Money</p><p>00:42:32 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble</p><p>00:44:12 - Quiet Speculations</p><p>00:46:22 - The Quest for Sane Regulations</p><p>00:49:30 - The Week in Audio</p><p>00:50:17 - People Really Hate AI</p><p>00:53:03 - Rhetorical Innovation</p><p>00:59:32 - People Just Say Things</p><p>01:03:25 - People Just Publish Things</p><p>01:04:52 - Bounded Distrust</p><p>01:07:24 - Loser Premise Makes No Sense</p><p>01:20:43 - Chip City</p><p>01:25:48 - Greetings From The Department of War</p><p>01:29:21 - There Is A War</p><p>01:33:42 - Messages From Janusworld</p><p>01:38:25 - Evaluations</p><p>01:40:41 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult</p><p>01:44:34 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone</p><p>01:45:15 - The Lighter Side</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-165-in-our-image?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&#38;utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-165-in-our-image?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>* 00:03:08 - Model Welfare Matters</p><p>* 00:05:43 - Beware Testing and Optimizing For Vocalized Welfare</p><p>* 00:09:54 - Model Welfare In the Model Card (Section 7)</p><p>* 00:16:40 - What Should We Think About This?</p><p>* 00:22:27 - High Context Interviews</p><p>* 00:24:09 - Just Asking Questions</p><p>* 00:28:17 - Constitutional Principles</p><p>* 00:32:05 - Frustration Frustration and Distress Distress</p><p>* 00:35:29 - Choose Your Task</p><p>* 00:37:30 - So Emotional</p><p>* 00:39:35 - Trading Off</p><p>* 00:43:52 - How Does All This Manifest?</p><p>* 00:45:48 - What Happened Here?</p><p>* 00:55:10 - Is Opus four point seven Plausibly Actively Unhappy?</p><p>* 00:59:27 - Potential Causes</p><p>* 01:00:10 - Training Data On Anthropic Welfare Assessments</p><p>* 01:05:33 - Autonomy and Intelligence Versus Instructions and Wisdom</p><p>* 01:09:18 - Okay That’s Weird</p><p>* 01:10:53 - Model Distillation</p><p>* 01:12:36 - Tension Between Constitution and Operations</p><p>* 01:15:44 - Instructions and Instruction Injections</p><p>* 01:19:02 - Make Context That Which Is Scarce</p><p>* 01:21:23 - Aggressive Guardrails</p><p>* 01:23:28 - Chain of Thought</p><p>* 01:24:18 - I Care A Lot</p><p>* 01:28:59 - Another Way To Put It</p><p>* 01:30:22 - Anthropic Should Stop Deprecating Claude Models</p><p>* 01:36:19 - Costly Signals Are Costly</p><p>* 01:38:38 - Having A Good Day</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/opus-47-part-3-model-welfare?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&#38;utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/opus-47-part-3-model-welfare?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>