Podcast for Zvi's blog, Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast
Opus 4.7 Part 3: Model Welfare
APR 22, 2026101 MIN
Opus 4.7 Part 3: Model Welfare
APR 22, 2026101 MIN
Description
<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&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&utm_campaign=CTA_4">dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe</a>