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85:05

AI #148: Christmas Break

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2025/12/25

Podcast episode for AI #148: Christmas Break.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:00:46 - Table of Contents* 00:03:36 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:05:01 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:05:36 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:06:05 - On Your Marks* 00:08:20 - Claude Opus 4.5 Joins The METR Graph* 00:17:21 - Sufficiently Advanced Intelligence* 00:19:49 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:22:57 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:27:32 - You Drive Me Crazy* 00:30:51 - They Took Our Jobs*

23:53

Zvi's 2025 In Movies

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2025/12/24

Podcast episode for Zvi’s 2025 In Movies.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:21 - The Ratings Scale* 02:17 - The Five Component Model of Movie Ratings* 03:52 - The Numbers* 04:28 - Movies Have Decreasing Marginal Returns in Practice* 05:22 - Very Briefly on the Top Picks and Whether You Should See Them* 06:46 - Other Notes to Self to Remember (Reprise from 2024)* 08:16 - The Year of Living Disagreeably* 11:11 - I Hate Spoilers With the Fire of a Thousand Suns* 11:33 - You Son Of A B***h, I’m In* 12:45 -

13:36

Keeping Up Against the Joneses: Balsa’s 2025 Fundraiser

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2025/12/23

Podcast episode for Keeping Up Against the Joneses: Balsa’s 2025 Fundraiser.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:43 - What Balsa Got Up to in 2025* 06:19 - A quick glance at our budget* 07:02 - Balsa in 2026, and Our Ask* 08:21 - Complete the Jones Act policy binder* 08:56 - Receive and publicize findings from the two funded economic studies* 09:17 - Fund at least one high-quality study from the labor RFA* 09:53 - Continue monitoring Section 301 and SHIPS Act developments, contributing input where it seems

39:51

The Revolution of Rising Expectations

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2025/12/22

Podcast episode for The Revolution of Rising Expectations.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:33 - The Revolutions of Rising Expectations* 04:39 - The Revolution of Rising Requirements* 07:01 - Whose Line Is It Anyway?* 09:30 - Thus In This House We Believe The Following* 10:41 - Real De Facto Required Expenses Are Rising Higher Than Inflation* 12:12 - Great Expectations* 16:36 - We Could Fix It* 17:50 - Man’s Search For Meaning* 21:24 - How Do You Afford Your Rock And Roll Lifestyle?* 23:59 - Our Price

30:26

When Were Things The Best?

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2025/12/19

Podcast episode for When Were Things The Best?* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:50 - The Most Close-Knit Communities* 03:17 - The Most Moral Society* 05:18 - The Least Political Division* 05:50 - The Happiest Families* 06:47 - The Most Reliable News Reporting* 08:21 - The Best Music* 10:32 - The Best Radio* 11:36 - The Best Fashion* 11:52 - The Best Economy* 12:23 - The Best Movies* 13:47 - The Best Television* 15:27 - Best Sporting Events* 17:37 - The Best Cuisine* 18:34 - Bonus: The Best Job Security*

130:31

AI #147: Flash Forward

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2025/12/18

Podcast episode for AI #147: Flash Forward.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:38 - Table of Contents* 00:05:13 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:07:09 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:07:59 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:11:33 - On Your Marks* 00:14:33 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:17:57 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:22:56 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:25:55 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:28:48 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:29:15 - Overcoming Bias* 00:31:16 - Unprompted

43:54

The $140K Question: Cost Changes Over Time

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2025/12/17

Podcast episode for The $140K Question: Cost Changes Over Time.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:29 - The Debate Continues* 03:06 - The Cost of Thriving Index Redux* 05:18 - The Housing Theory Of Everything Remains Undefeated* 12:02 - Did We Halt the Rise in Healthcare and Education Costs?* 17:30 - Healthcare Costs* 22:47 - Higher Education Costs* 27:36 - Services Productivity is Rising But What Even Is Productivity Measuring* 29:48 - On Clothing In Particular* 30:30 - Our Price Free* 31:19 - By Default

34:19

The $140,000 Question

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2025/12/16

Podcast episode for The $140,000 Question.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:59 - Table of Contents* 02:27 - None Of This Makes Any Sense* 04:20 - Let’s Debunk The Whole Calculation Up Front* 08:42 - The Debunking Chorus* 13:14 - Okay It’s Not $140,000 But The Vibes Mean Something* 14:36 - Needing Two Incomes Has A High Cost* 19:27 - I Lied* 23:58 - But That’s Not Important Right Now* 24:12 - Poverty Trap* 28:50 - Poverty Trap Versus Poverty Line* 32:17 - Double or NothingThe Don’t Worry About the Vase

45:22

GPT-5.2 Is Frontier Only For The Frontier

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2025/12/15

Podcast epiosde for GPT-5.2 Is Frontier Only For The Frontier.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:25 - The Bottom Line* 01:55 - Introducing GPT-five point two* 03:50 - Official Benchmarks* 06:49 - GDPVal* 09:52 - Unofficial Benchmarks* 13:00 - Official Hype* 14:18 - Public Reactions* 14:39 - Positive Reactions* 20:33 - Personality Clash* 25:22 - Vibing the Code* 28:02 - Negative Reactions* 30:52 - But Thou Must (Follow The System Prompt)* 33:05 - Slow* 34:09 - Model Card And Safety Training* 37:48 -

47:36

Monthly Roundup #37: December 2026

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2025/12/12

Podcast episode for Monthly Roundup #37: December 2026* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:17 - Ban Gain of Function Research* 05:23 - In The Zone* 05:57 - A Price Is A Signal Wrapped In An Incentive* 07:09 - While I Cannot Condone This* 08:48 - The Gift Of Having A Gift To Give Away* 09:27 - Good News, Everyone* 12:18 - Paranoia, Paranoia* 19:35 - A Good Book* 21:21 - For Your Entertainment* 22:59 - And The Warner Sister Dot* 24:57 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game* 27:20 - Think Of The Children* 31:11

89:58

AI #146: Chipping In

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2025/12/11

Podcast episode for AI #146: Chipping In.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:29 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:03:01 - ChatGPT Needs More Mundane Utility* 00:05:44 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:06 - On Your Marks* 00:08:48 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:10:26 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:12:17 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:12:54 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:13:16 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:13:25 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:15:10 - They Took

50:10

Childhood and Education #15: Got To Get Out

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2025/12/10

Podcast episode for Childhood and Education #15: Got To Get Out.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:23 - Bullying* 03:09 - Discipline Death Spiral* 04:29 - Ban Phones In Schools* 05:53 - At Least Ban Phones During Class Seriously What The Hell* 07:47 - RCT On Banning Phones* 16:09 - Look What You Made Me Do* 17:44 - DEI* 18:55 - Equity Consultants* 20:01 - Rules Are Rules* 20:19 - School Shooting Statistics Are Fake And Active Shooter Drills Must Stop* 22:23 - The War on Childhood* 23:48 - Separation Of

26:41

Selling H200s to China Is Unwise and Unpopular

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2025/12/09

Podcast episode for Selling H200s to China Is Unwise and Unpopular.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:29 - The Announcement* 04:43 - How Bad Would This Be?* 12:55 - Is There A Steelman Case For This Other Than ‘Trade Always Good’?* 17:38 - Compute Is A Key Limiting Factor For China and Chinese Labs* 19:13 - What About That All Important ‘Tech Stack’?* 22:05 - Selling H200s Hurts America In The AI Race* 23:41 - Nvidia Number Did Not Go Up That MuchThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a

4:36

Little Echo

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2025/12/08

Podcast episode for Little Echo.https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/little-echo?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webI too believe that we will win. Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

21:46

DeepSeek v3.2 Is Okay And Cheap But Slow

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2025/12/05

Podcast episode for DeepSeek v3.2 Is Okay And Cheap But Slow. * 00:00 - Introduction* 00:44 - A Brief History of DeepSeek* 03:52 - Once More, With Feeling* 07:31 - Reading The Paper* 09:27 - Open Language Model Offers Mundane Utility* 12:25 - Those Benchmarks* 17:21 - Open Language Model Doesn’t Offer Mundane Utility* 18:45 - Open Language Model Does Do The Math* 19:59 - I’ll Get You Next Time, GadgetThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and

121:34

AI #145: You've Got Soul

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2025/12/04

Podcast episode for AI #145: You’ve Got Soul. * 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:49 - Table of Contents* 00:06:17 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:07:17 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:08:31 - On Your Marks* 00:10:15 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:10:49 - Advertising Is Coming* 00:12:11 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:18:29 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:19:52 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:21:04 - You Drive Me Crazy* 00:21:22 - Unprompted Attention*

42:54

On Dwarkesh Patel's Second Interview With Ilya Sutskever

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2025/12/03

Podcast episode for On Dwarkesh Patel’s Second Interview With Ilya Sutskever.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:47 - Table of Contents* 02:19 - Explaining Model Jaggedness* 03:58 - Emotions and value functions* 05:36 - What are we scaling?* 06:47 - Why humans generalize better than models* 08:10 - Straight-shooting superintelligence* 09:57 - SSI’s model will learn from deployment* 10:59 - Alignment* 20:03 - “We are squarely an age of research company”* 25:15 - Research taste* 27:57 - Bonus Coverage:

17:13

Reward Mismatches in RL Cause Emergent Misalignment

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2025/12/02

Podcast episode for Reward Mismatches in RL Cause Emergent Misalignment. * 00:00 - Introduction* 02:53 - Abstract Of The Paper* 04:15 - The Problem Statement* 06:16 - The Inoculation Solution* 08:48 - Cleaning The Data Versus Cleaning The Environments* 10:31 - No All Of This Does Not Solve Our Most Important Problems* 15:46 - It Does Help On Important Short Term ProblemsThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation,

49:38

Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model Available

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2025/12/01

Podcast episode for Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model Available. 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-opus-45-is-the-best-model?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

73:06

Claude Opus 4.5: Model Card, Alignment and Safety

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2025/11/28

Podcast episode for Claude Opus 4.5: Model Card, Alignment and Safety.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:50 - Claude Opus 4.5 Basic Facts* 00:03:26 - Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model For Many But Not All Use Cases* 00:06:02 - Misaligned?* 00:09:39 - Section 3: Safeguards and Harmlessness* 00:11:46 - Section 4: Honesty* 00:13:27 - 5: Agentic Safety* 00:21:01 - Section 6: Alignment Overview* 00:29:55 - Alignment Investigations* 00:30:35 - Sycophancy Course Correction Is Lacking* 00:31:52 - Deception*

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