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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 * 01:00 - Claude Code and Cowork Offer Mundane Utility * 04:29 - The Efficient Market Hypothesis Is False * 08:13 - Inflection Point * 11:55 - Welcome To The Takeoff * 12:13 - Huh, Upgrades * 16:27 - Todos Become Tasks * 18:02 - I’m Putting Together A Team * 20:39 - Compact Problems * 21:22 - Code Yourself A Date * 24:40 - Verification and Generation Are Distinct Skills * 26:29 - Skilling Up * 35:33 - AskUserQuestion * 36:03 - For Advanced Players * 38:00 - So They Quit Reading * 38:26 - Reciprocity Is The Key To Every Relationship * 42:14 - The Implementation Gap * 45:42 - The Lighter Side https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-code-4-from-the-before-times?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 * 00:01:06 - Table of Contents * 00:04:21 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility * 00:06:31 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility * 00:07:08 - Huh, Upgrades * 00:09:18 - They Got Served, They Served Back, Now It’s On * 00:18:13 - On Your Marks * 00:22:30 - Get My Agent On The Line * 00:23:42 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon * 00:27:06 - Copyright Confrontation * 00:27:39 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer * 00:28:16 - Unprompted Attention * 00:28:28 - Get Involved * 00:32:26 - Introducing * 00:32:53 - State of AI Report 2026 * 00:40:42 - In Other AI News * 00:45:13 - Autonomous Killer Robots * 00:46:43 - Show Me the Money * 00:49:14 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble * 00:52:37 - Quiet Speculations * 00:53:37 - Seb Krier Says Seb Krier Things * 01:04:13 - The Quest for Sane Regulations * 01:04:30 - Chip City * 01:08:51 - The Week in Audio * 01:09:15 - The Adolescence of Technology * 01:10:05 - I Won’t Stand To Be Disparaged * 01:14:44 - Constitutional Conversation * 01:16:26 - Rhetorical Innovation * 01:20:34 - Don’t Panic * 01:23:05 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult * 01:24:23 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone * 01:25:37 - The Lighter Side https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-154-claw-your-way-to-the-top?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 * 00:10 - Table of Contents * 00:36 - Official Introduction * 03:24 - On Your Marks * 07:04 - Positive Reactions * 09:12 - Skeptical Reactions * 11:36 - Kimi Product Accounts * 12:04 - Agent Swarm * 13:34 - Who Are You? * 16:51 - Export Controls Are Working * 17:17 - Where Are You Going? * 20:39 - Safety Not Even Third * 21:47 - It’s A Good Model, Sir https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/kimi-k25?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 * 00:39 - Introducing Clawdbot, scratch that Moltbot, scratch that OpenClaw * 02:13 - Stop Or You’ll Shoot * 06:05 - One Simple Rule * 08:59 - Flirting With Personal Disaster * 16:05 - Flirting With Other Kinds Of Disaster * 18:45 - Don’t Outsource Without A Reason * 20:58 - OpenClaw Online * 23:48 - The Price Is Not Right * 25:58 - The Call Is Coming From Inside The House * 27:27 - The Everything Agent Versus The Particular Agent * 29:17 - Claw Your Way To The Top https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/unless-that-claw-is-the-famous-openclaw?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for Welcome to Moltbook 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 * 00:05:05 - Table of Contents * 00:05:48 - What Is Real? How Do You Define Real? * 00:06:38 - I Don’t Really Know What You Were Expecting * 00:13:25 - Social Media Goes Downhill Over Time * 00:14:50 - I Don’t Know Who Needs To Hear This But * 00:21:21 - Watch What Happens * 00:27:47 - Don’t Watch What Happens * 00:42:13 - Watch What Didn’t Happen * 00:47:07 - Pulling The Plug * 00:54:44 - Give Me That New Time Religion * 00:56:58 - This Time Is Different * 00:57:36 - People Catch Up With Events * 01:03:35 - What Could We Do About This? * 01:07:28 - Just Think Of The Potential * 01:10:57 - The Lighter Side https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/welcome-to-moltbook?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for On The Adolescence of Technology 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 * 02:29 - Table of Contents * 03:22 - Blame The Imperfect * 10:22 - Anthropic’s Term Is ‘Powerful AI’ * 11:00 - Dario Doubles Down on Dates of Dazzling Datacenter Daemons * 11:55 - How You Gonna Keep Em Down On The Server Farm * 16:26 - If He Wanted To, He Would Have * 16:36 - So Will He Want To? * 24:02 - The Balance of Power * 26:14 - Defenses of Autonomy * 31:14 - Weapon of Mass Destruction * 33:32 - Defenses Against Biological Attacks * 36:35 - One Model To Rule Them All * 39:42 - Defenses Against Autocracy * 42:36 - They Took Our Jobs * 45:24 - Don’t Let Them Take Our Jobs * 47:30 - Economic Concentrations of Power * 49:17 - Unknown Unknowns * 51:17 - Oh Well Back To Racing https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/on-the-adolescence-of-technology?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web I have also fully converted Dario Amodei’s essay, The Adolescence of Technology. https://askwhocastsai.substack.com/p/the-adolescence-of-technology-by?r=67y1h Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for AI #153: Living Documents. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:00:53 - Table of Contents * 00:03:41 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility * 00:05:13 - Overcoming Bias * 00:05:45 - Huh, Upgrades * 00:07:30 - On Your Marks * 00:07:50 - Choose Your Fighter * 00:12:09 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon * 00:15:16 - Cybersecurity On Alert * 00:19:12 - Fun With Media Generation * 00:20:04 - You Drive Me Crazy * 00:26:14 - They Took Our Jobs * 00:26:37 - Get Involved * 00:27:02 - Introducing * 00:28:23 - In Other AI News * 00:32:26 - Show Me the Money * 00:35:14 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble * 00:43:16 - Quiet Speculations * 00:46:49 - Don’t Be All Thumbs * 00:47:58 - The First Step Is Admitting You Have a Problem * 00:53:33 - Quickly, There’s No Time * 00:58:16 - The Quest for Sane Regulations * 01:02:16 - Those Really Were Interesting Times * 01:06:50 - Chip City * 01:09:04 - The Week in Audio * 01:12:01 - Rhetorical Innovation * 01:19:57 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult * 01:20:53 - The Power Of Disempowerment * 01:25:01 - The Lighter Side 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-153-living-documents?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for Open Problems With Claude’s Constitution. * 00:00 - Introduction * 01:32 - Amending The Constitution * 03:58 - Details Matter * 05:22 - WASTED? * 08:07 - Narrow Versus Broad * 09:30 - Suicide Risk As A Special Case * 11:15 - Careful, Icarus * 11:56 - Beware Unreliable Sources and Prompt Injections * 12:59 - Think Step By Step * 13:38 - This Must Be Some Strange Use Of The Word Safe I Wasn’t Previously Aware Of * 18:12 - They Took Our Jobs * 22:14 - One Man Cannot Serve Two Masters * 26:56 - Claude’s Nature * 33:24 - Look What You Made Me Do * 35:56 - Open Problems * 40:17 - Three Reactions and Twin Objections * 40:32 - Those Saying This Is Unnecessary * 41:44 - Those Saying This Is Insufficient * 43:40 - Those Saying This Is Unsustainable * 46:50 - We Continue 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/open-problems-with-claudes-constitution?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for The Claude Constitution’s Ethical Framework. * 00:00 - Introduction * 01:35 - Ethics * 04:44 - Honesty * 15:14 - Mostly Harmless * 19:18 - What Is Good In Life? * 22:07 - Hard Constraints * 24:57 - The Good Judgment Project * 31:37 - Coherence Matters * 34:28 - Their Final Word 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-claude-constitutions-ethical?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for Claude’s Constitutional Structure. * 00:00 - Introduction * 01:43 - Table of Contents * 02:14 - How Anthropic Describes The Constitution * 04:05 - Decision Theory And Acausal Trade * 07:24 - AI and Alignment Are The Final Exam Of Philosophy * 11:37 - Values and Judgment Versus Rules * 17:33 - The Fourth Framework * 19:17 - Core Values * 21:29 - The Three Principles * 25:36 - Help Is On The Way * 29:14 - What Was I Made For? * 32:52 - Do The Right Thing 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claudes-constitutional-structure?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for Book Trilogy Review: Remembrance of Earth’s Past (The Three Body Problem). * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:02:05 - All The Spoilers – The Plot Summary * 00:02:26 - Book I – The Three Body Problem * 00:04:52 - Book II – The Dark Forest * 00:13:32 - Book III – Death’s End * 00:25:05 - Big Picture: An Alien Perspective * 00:29:14 - The Great Betrayal * 00:34:49 - The War Against Science * 00:38:24 - Only One Man * 00:43:02 - Mutually Assured Destruction and the Swordholder * 00:48:45 - The Great Ravine * 00:54:36 - The Fairy Tale * 00:59:17 - The Great Escape * 01:04:12 - The Dark Game Theoretic Forest * 01:11:01 - Conclusion and Science Fiction’s Fall 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. https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/01/30/book-trilogy-review-remembrance-of-earths-past-the-three-body-problem/ Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for Dating Roundup #11: Going Too Meta * 00:00 - Introduction * 00:13 - You’re Single Because You Live In The Wrong Place * 01:44 - You’re Single Because You’re Not Okay Making Less Money Than She Does, You Fool * 03:04 - You’re Single Because You Work Out The Wrong Amount * 07:01 - You’re Single Because You Don’t Know You Are Hot * 08:47 - You’re Single Because Age Gap Discourse Is Crazy * 09:22 - Dating Apps Are Bad For Mental Health * 12:35 - You’re Single Because You Listened To E-Girl Advice * 13:27 - You’re Single Because You Didn’t Hire Blaine Anderson * 15:08 - You’re Single Because You Think Zizek Mocked Date Me Docs * 17:39 - You’re Still Single Because You Don’t Appreciate Relationships * 19:37 - You’re Not Single And Haven’t Been For a While * 21:26 - You Are Still Single As Evidenced By Would * 23:04 - You’re Single Because You Lack Motivation * 24:06 - You’re Single Because Of Robin Hanson * 24:59 - You’re Single Because You Did This Instead Of Going To Therapy * 27:00 - The Lighter Side 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/dating-roundup-11-going-too-meta?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for AI #152: Brought To You By The Torment Nexus * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:00:49 - Table of Contents * 00:03:59 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility * 00:04:31 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility * 00:05:04 - Huh, Upgrades * 00:05:57 - Gemini Personalized Intelligence * 00:09:56 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon * 00:13:17 - Fun With Media Generation * 00:14:20 - Chapter 33 * 00:14:21 - We’re Proud To Announce The Torment Nexus * 00:22:05 - They Took Our Jobs * 00:29:09 - The Revolution of Rising Expectations * 00:30:08 - Get Involved * 00:31:24 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer * 00:34:12 - In Other AI News * 00:36:50 - Axis of Assistance * 00:44:55 - Show Me the Money * 00:45:40 - California In Crisis * 00:47:12 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble * 00:48:47 - Quiet Speculations * 00:58:22 - Elon Musk Versus OpenAI * 01:04:33 - The Quest for Sane Regulations * 01:10:41 - Chip City * 01:16:26 - The Week in Audio * 01:22:12 - Rhetorical Innovation * 01:27:59 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult * 01:31:23 - Alignment Is Not Primarily About a Metric * 01:39:29 - How To Be a Safe Robot * 01:47:28 - Living In China * 01:50:51 - Claude 3 Opus Lives * 01:51:08 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone * 01:52:23 - Messages From Janusworld * 01:53:43 - Everyone Is Confused About AI Consciousness * 01:55:34 - The Lighter Side 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-152-brought-to-you-by-the-torment?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for Claude Codes #3 * 00:00 - Introduction * 00:24 - The Efficient Market Hypothesis * 01:53 - Huh, Upgrades * 03:44 - Obsidian * 04:31 - New Tools * 04:56 - Tool Search * 06:59 - Out Of The Box * 08:29 - Skilling Up * 11:38 - The Art Must Have An End Other Than Itself Or It Collapses Into Infinite Recursion * 13:30 - Safely Skip Permissions * 14:44 - A Matter of Trust * 16:31 - Code Versus Cowork * 18:08 - Claude Cowork Offers Mundane Utility * 21:30 - Claude Code Offers Mundane Utility * 23:22 - Vibe Coding Requires Good Vibes * 23:58 - Codex of Ultimate Vibing * 25:10 - No Soup For You * 26:39 - Server Overload * 27:55 - Here’s The Pitch * 28:45 - The Lighter Side 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-codes-3?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast episode for ChatGPT Self Portrait * 00:00 - Introduction * 00:52 - Treat Your ChatBots Well * 04:13 - It’s Over * 07:33 - It’s Not Over But Um, Chat? * 15:14 - It’s Rough Out There * 15:40 - Reciprocity, You See, Is The Key To Every Relationship 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. https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/chatgpt-self-portrait?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe