Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast

18:24

What is Anthropic?

Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast ·

2026/05/06

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* 00:30 - What Is Anthropic?* 11:50 - What Is This Supposed Tool AI?https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/what-is-anthropic?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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19:19

The AI Ad-Hoc Prior Restraint Era Begins

Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast ·

2026/05/05

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 - Introduction00:54 - Project Glasswing Cannot Expand02:34 - The Ad-Hoc Prior Restraint Era Begins09:47 - Implementation Through CAISI12:50 - What Should We Do About AI?14:23 - The Chain of Command Nonsense Continues16:35 - The Government Should Maintain Multiple AI Providers17:02 - How’s It Going To

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26:38

Housing Roundup #15: The War Against Renters

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2026/05/04

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* 01:05 - Owning Versus Renting* 03:19 - Build To Rent Is Good Actually* 08:22 - Elizabeth Warren, Full Supervillain* 09:46 - The Better Case Against Corporate Housing Ownership* 11:47 - The ROAD Act Bans Building And Then Renting Houses* 14:12 - Rental Covenants* 15:09 - Extended Eviction Delay After

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53:25

Housing Roundup #14: You Can't Build That

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2026/05/01

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* 00:34 - Yelling Fire Risk In A Crowded City* 02:22 - Beauty* 07:16 - Historical Preservation Is Out Of Hand* 08:54 - You Only Need One Staircase* 10:17 - Zoning Run Amok* 11:57 - Elevator Action* 12:26 - The Hookup* 16:00 - Affordable Housing* 17:03 - Actually Affordable Housing* 19:17 - Affordable Housing

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117:20

AI #166: Google Sells Out

Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast ·

2026/04/30

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* 00:02:02 - Table of Contents* 00:05:35 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:04 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:12:01 - Seeking Deeply* 00:24:00 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:24:32 - On Your Marks* 00:24:49 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:25:50 - More On Claude Opus four point seven* 00:27:30 -

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19:17

The Most Important Charts In The World

Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast ·

2026/04/29

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* 00:33 - The Original Most Important Chart* 01:59 - Show Me The Money* 02:23 - Bad Things Happen Less* 05:39 - The Exponential* 10:40 - Find Out* 11:30 - Fertility Crisis* 12:06 - However You Look At It* 12:33 - Important Things To

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47:05

GPT-5.5: Capabilities and Reactions

Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast ·

2026/04/28

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* 02:42 - The Official Pitch* 08:28 - Our Price Cheap* 09:08 - Official Benchmarks* 17:24 - SemiAnalysis Doublecheck* 18:40 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 21:51 - Vend That Bench* 25:34 - Planning Is Essential* 27:13 - Choose Your Fighter* 28:53 - Cyber Lack Of Security* 29:21 - You Get What You Give* 30:27 -

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27:15

GPT 5.5: The System Card

Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast ·

2026/04/27

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* 02:48 - Pro Versus Proxy* 03:10 - Disallowed Content (3.1)* 05:29 - Don’t Delete Data (3.3)* 06:30 - Confirmation Confirmation (3.4)* 06:56 - Jailbreaks (4.1)* 07:07 - Prompt Injections (4.2)* 08:38 - Health (5)* 09:01 - Hallucinations (6)* 10:16 - Alignment (7)* 14:48 - Bias Evaluation (8)* 15:16 -

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75:47

Monthly Roundup #41: April 2025

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2026/04/24

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* 00:00:24 - Bad News* 00:04:58 - Good Advice* 00:06:10 - Opportunity Knocks* 00:06:38 - Who Judges The Judges* 00:08:28 - Close Socrates* 00:14:40 - While I Cannot Condone This* 00:16:11 - Good News, Everyone* 00:17:05 - Violence Is Never The Answer* 00:17:47 - For Your Entertainment* 00:21:59 - Gamers

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109:07

AI #165: In Our Image

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2026/04/23

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 - Introduction00:02:10 - Table of Contents00:05:52 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility00:07:12 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility00:07:47 - Writing You Off00:10:54 - Get My Agent On The Line00:11:41 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon00:13:57 - Fun With Media Generation00:17:56 - Cyber Lack Of

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101:47

Opus 4.7 Part 3: Model Welfare

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2026/04/22

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* 00:03:08 - Model Welfare Matters* 00:05:43 - Beware Testing and Optimizing For Vocalized Welfare* 00:09:54 - Model Welfare In the Model Card (Section 7)* 00:16:40 - What Should We Think About This?* 00:22:27 - High Context Interviews* 00:24:09 - Just Asking Questions* 00:28:17 - Constitutional Principles*

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57:56

Opus 4.7 Part 2: Capabilities and Reactions

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2026/04/21

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* 00:34 - Table of Contents* 01:22 - The Gestalt* 03:19 - The Official Pitch* 05:22 - General Use Tips* 07:17 - Capabilities (Model Card Section 8)* 13:53 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 24:48 - General Positive Reactions* 29:17 - General Negative Reactions* 32:24 - Miscellaneous Ambiguous Notes* 32:59 - The Last

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37:05

Opus 4.7 Part 1: The Model Card

Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast ·

2026/04/20

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* 02:39 - Here We Go Again: Executive Summary* 03:43 - Introduction (1)* 04:10 - RSP Evaluations (2)* 05:20 - Meanwhile Back With Claude Mythos* 10:16 - Economic Capability Index (2.3.7)* 11:10 - Alignment Risk (2.4)* 13:07 - Cyber (3)* 14:43 - Safeguards and Harmlessness (4)* 21:19 - Agentic Safety (5)* 24:24

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101:10

AI #164: Pre Opus

Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast ·

2026/04/17

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* 00:03:40 - Table of Contents* 00:07:24 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:11:03 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:14:37 - Levels of Friction* 00:16:51 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:17:09 - On Your Marks* 00:17:22 - Lack of Cybersecurity* 00:19:03 - Meta Game* 00:26:24 - Deepfaketown and

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74:48

On Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast With Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast ·

2026/04/16

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* 00:01:53 - Podcast Overview Part 1: Ordinary Business Interview* 00:04:24 - Podcast Overview Part 2: A Debate About Chip Exports* 00:09:35 - What Is Nvidia’s Moat?* 00:15:33 - TPU vs. GPU* 00:20:42 - Why Isn’t Nvidia Hyperscaling?* 00:26:20 - Selling Chips To China* 00:55:49 - Different Chip

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27:03

Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #7: Auto Mode

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2026/04/15

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* 00:46 - Huh, Upgrades* 02:52 - On Your Marks* 05:02 - Lazy Cheaters* 06:45 - It’s All Routine* 07:20 - Declawing* 09:21 - Free Claw* 09:47 - Take It To The Limit* 14:06 - Turn On Auto The Pilot* 16:14 - I’ll Allow It* 16:43 - Threat Model* 17:21 - The Classifier Is The Hard Part* 18:53 - Acceptable Risks*

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36:12

Claude Mythos #3: Capabilities and Additions

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2026/04/14

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* 02:05 - Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI) (Model Card 2.3.6)* 04:52 - What Do You Mean Verbalized Evaluation Awareness Is Going Down* 05:43 - Capabilities (Model Card Section 6)* 08:38 - Agentic Safety Benchmarks (8.3)* 10:57 - Is Mythos AGI?* 11:56 - Are AI Companies Using Warnings As Hype?* 12:56 -

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37:30

Political Violence Is Never Acceptable

Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast ·

2026/04/13

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* 00:46 - Awful Events Amid Scary Times* 04:39 - Most Of Those Worried About AI Do As Well As One Can On This* 07:00 - Some Who Are Worried About AI Need To Address Their Rhetoric* 12:23 - Speak The Truth Even If Your Voice Trembles* 14:44 - False Accusations And False Attacks Are Also Unacceptable* 16:22 -

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72:55

Claude Mythos #2: Cybersecurity and Project Glasswing

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2026/04/10

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* 00:02:10 - Introducing Project Glasswing* 00:03:39 - Don’t Worry About the Government* 00:05:15 - Cybersecurity Capabilities In The Model Card (Section 3)* 00:06:56 - Cyber Capability Tests In The Model Card* 00:08:54 - The Proof Is In The Patching* 00:11:26 - Go For Read Team* 00:15:16 - Is This New?*

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118:32

Claude Mythos: The System Card

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2026/04/09

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* 00:03:39 - Mundane Alignment Is Excellent* 00:05:26 - Would This Process Be Sufficient To Find A Dangerous Model?* 00:06:58 - Introductory Warning About Superficial Mundane Alignment* 00:15:45 - Model Training (1.1)* 00:15:57 - Release Decision Process (1.2)* 00:18:24 - RSP Evaluations (2.1 and 2.2)*

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