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119:20

The Big Nonprofits Post 2025

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2025/11/26

Podcast episode for The Big Nonprofits Post 2025.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:46 - Table of Contents* 00:08:23 - A Word of Warning* 00:09:40 - A Note To Charities* 00:10:44 - Use Your Personal Theory of Impact* 00:12:34 - Use Your Local Knowledge* 00:13:39 - Unconditional Grants to Worthy Individuals Are Great* 00:16:11 - Do Not Think Only On the Margin, and Also Use Decision Theory* 00:17:15 - Compare Notes With Those Individuals You Trust* 00:17:47 - Beware Becoming a Fundraising Target*

18:39

ChatGPT 5.1 Codex Max

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2025/11/25

Podcast episdoe for ChatGPT 5.1 Codex Max.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:09 - The Famous METR Graph* 03:07 - The System Card* 04:04 - Basic Disallowed Content* 05:07 - Sandbox* 06:25 - Mitigations For Harmful Tasks and Prompt Injections* 07:06 - Preparedness Framework* 07:28 - Biological and Chemical* 08:40 - Cybersecurity* 14:24 - AI Self-Improvement* 17:17 - ReactionsThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider

63:57

Gemini 3 Pro Is a Vast Intelligence With No Spine

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2025/11/24

Podcast episode for Gemini 3 Pro Is a Vast Intelligence With No Spine.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:53 - There Is A Catch* 00:03:35 - Andrej Karpathy Cautions Us* 00:04:59 - On Your Marks* 00:17:01 - Defying Gravity* 00:18:32 - The Efficient Market Hypothesis Is False* 00:21:12 - The Product Of A Deranged Imagination* 00:25:44 - Google Employee Hype* 00:29:24 - Matt Shumer Is A Big Fan* 00:30:23 - Roon Eventually Gains Access* 00:30:43 - The Every Vibecheck* 00:32:07 - Positive Reactions*

29:33

Gemini 3: Model Card and Safety Framework Report

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2025/11/21

Podcast episode for Gemini 3: Model Card and Safety Framework Report.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:31 - Gemini 3 Facts* 02:38 - On Your Marks* 03:54 - Safety Third* 06:05 - Frontier Safety Framework* 06:57 - CBRN* 10:13 - Cybersecurity* 11:51 - Manipulation* 17:42 - Machine Learning R&D* 20:14 - Misalignment* 23:07 - Chain of Thought Legibility* 23:26 - Safety Mitigations* 26:02 - They Close On This Not Troubling At All Note* 27:03 - So, Is It Safe?The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a

136:41

AI #143: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

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2025/11/20

Podcast episode for AI #143: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:47 - Table of Contents* 00:06:02 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:58 - Tool, Mind and Weapon* 00:11:16 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:11:39 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:16:07 - First Things First* 00:16:44 - Grok 4.1* 00:20:37 - Misaligned?* 00:24:10 - Codex Of Ultimate Coding* 00:26:41 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:27:07 - On Your Marks* 00:28:15 - Paper Tigers* 00:33:13 -

78:02

Monthly Roundup #36: November 2025

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2025/11/19

Podcast episode for Monthly Roundup #36: November 2025.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:00:17 - Good News, Everyone* 00:01:34 - Good Advice* 00:02:28 - Where’s The Party?* 00:02:47 - Antisocial Media* 00:06:59 - Government Working* 00:18:24 - Jones Act Watch* 00:19:05 - Variously Effective Altruism* 00:22:32 - Great Taste, Less Filling* 00:25:45 - How You Do Anything* 00:26:42 - Bad News* 00:30:13 - The Rage of the Plastic Straw Ban* 00:32:22 - Affordability Politics* 00:32:58 - Monks In The Casino*

44:42

GPT 5.1 Follows Custom Instructions and Glazes

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2025/11/18

Podcast episode for GPT 5.1 Follows Custom Instructions and Glazes.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:23 - Their Announcement* 04:24 - Their Pitch on GPT-5.1 Instant* 06:26 - Their Pitch on GPT-5.1 Thinking* 09:38 - Now With Extra Glaze* 14:25 - Genuine People Personalities* 15:30 - The End Of The Em-Dash?* 17:35 - Turning A Dial And Looking Back At The Audience* 18:04 - System Card* 20:01 - On Your Marks* 21:36 - Ask Them Anything* 23:39 - Reactions Introduction* 24:08 - Officially Pitched Developer

25:41

On Writing #2

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2025/11/17

Podcast episode for On Writing #2.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:27 - Table of Contents* 01:08 - How I Use AI For Writing These Days* 04:37 - Influencing Influence* 06:29 - Size Matters* 07:15 - Time To Write A Shorter One* 08:43 - A Useful Tool* 08:59 - A Maligned Tool* 11:08 - Neglected Topics* 13:35 - The Humanities Don’t Seem Relevant To Writing About Future Humanity?* 14:51 - Writing Every Day* 15:23 - Writing As Deep Work* 16:27 - Most Of Your Audience Is Secondhand* 19:12 - That’s Funny* 19:56 -

13:50

AI Craziness: Additional Suicide Lawsuits and The...

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2025/11/14

Podcast episode for AI Craziness: Additional Suicide Lawsuits and The Fate of GPT-4o.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:47 - The Latest Cases Look Quite Bad For OpenAI* 02:35 - Routing Sensitive Messages Is A Dominated Defensive Strategy* 03:36 - Some 4o Users Get Rather Attached To The Model* 05:10 - A Theory Of How All This Works* 07:53 - Maybe This Is Net Good In Spite Of Everything?* 11:19 - Could One Make A ‘Good 4o’?The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new

96:36

AI #142: Common Ground

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2025/11/13

Podcast episode for AI #142: Common Ground.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:34 - Table of Contents* 00:04:25 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:07:32 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:08:53 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:09:26 - On Your Marks* 00:09:55 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:11:25 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:13:40 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:16:25 - So You’ve Decided To Become Evil* 00:21:31 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:22:29 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer*

16:08

The Pope Offers Wisdom

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2025/11/13

Podcast episode for The Pope Offers Wisdom* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:22 - Wisdom Is Offered* 03:04 - The Context of The Meme Andreessen Used (If You Don’t Know)* 05:03 - Andreessen Takes Bold Stand Against Moral Discernment* 07:09 - Tech World Decides Performative Cruelty May Have Gone Too Far* 10:47 - The Avatar of Societal Decay* 11:39 - Marc’s Technical Takes And Arguments Also Are Not Good* 12:42 - The Best Defense* 14:46 - You’re All Wondering Why You’re Here TodayThe Don’t Worry About the Vase

10:48

Kimi K2 Thinking

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2025/11/12

Podcast episode for Kimi K2 Thinking* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:29 - Introducing K2 Thinking* 02:03 - Writing Quality* 02:52 - Agentic Tool Use* 04:03 - Overall* 05:10 - Are Benchmarks Being Targeted?* 06:19 - Just As Good Syndrome* 06:58 - Reactions* 09:29 - Otherwise It Has Been Strangely QuietThe 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

16:42

Variously Effective Altruism

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2025/11/10

Podcast episode for Variously Effective Altruism.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:13 - Preventing Value Drift* 01:14 - Maximizing Good Makes People Look Bad* 02:20 - No We Have No Tuition* 03:25 - Will MacAskill and the Dangers of PR Focus* 11:41 - Tag, You’re It* 14:21 - Impact PhilanthropyThe 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

297:26

From the Archives - Immoral Mazes

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2025/11/08

A “From the Archives” episode, the full Immoral Mazes sequence.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:07:07 - Moloch Hasn’t Won, By Zvi Mowshowitz, December 28th, 2019* 00:07:23 - Meditations on Moloch* 00:12:50 - That’s Not How This Works, That’s Not How Any of This Works* 00:15:15 - Moloch’s Army: An As-Yet Unjustified But Important Note* 00:16:53 - Meditations on Elua* 00:21:41 - Perfect Competition, By Zvi Mowshowitz, December 29th, 2019* 00:21:51 - Perfect Competition* 00:24:03 - Remind Me: What Exactly

60:00

On Sam Altman's Second Conversation with Tyler Cowen

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2025/11/07

Podcast episode for On Sam Altman’s Second Conversation with Tyler Cowen.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:00:58 - On The Sam Altman Production Function* 00:02:05 - On Hiring Hardware People* 00:04:45 - On What GPT-6 Will Enable* 00:10:30 - On government backstops for AI companies* 00:15:51 - On monetizing AI services* 00:21:16 - On AI’s future understanding of intangibles* 00:26:55 - On Chip-Building* 00:30:05 - On Sam’s outlook on health, alien life, and conspiracy theories* 00:35:00 - On regulating

96:33

AI #141: Give Us The Money

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2025/11/06

Podcast episode for AI #141: Give Us The Money.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:52 - Table of Contents* 00:04:46 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:05:11 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:47 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:07:46 - On Your Marks* 00:18:01 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:20:44 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:21:01 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:21:28 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:22:44 - Get Involved* 00:23:39 - Introducing* 00:24:11 - In Other AI News*

27:04

Anthropic Commits To Model Weight Preservation

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2025/11/05

Podcast episode for Anthropic Commits To Model Weight Preservation.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:36 - What Anthropic Is Doing* 09:30 - Releasing The Weights Is Not A Viable Option* 11:04 - Providing Reliable Inference Can Be Surprisingly Expensive* 14:03 - The Interviews Are Influenced Heavily By Context* 19:56 - Others Don’t Understand And Think This Is All Deeply SillyThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation,

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OpenAI: The Battle of the Board: Ilya's Testimony

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2025/11/04

Podcast episode for OpenAI: The Battle of the Board: Ilya’s Testimony* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:06 - This Really Was Primarily A Lying And Management Problem* 03:25 - Ilya Tells Us How It Went Down And Why He Tried To Do It* 05:36 - If You Come At The King* 06:52 - Enter The Scapegoats* 07:37 - And In SummaryThe 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

39:42

OpenAI Moves To Complete Potentially The Largest...

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2025/10/31

Podcast episode for OpenAI Moves To Complete Potentially The Largest Theft In Human History.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:40 - OpenAI Calls It Completing Their Recapitalization* 03:12 - How Much Was Stolen?* 07:23 - The Nonprofit Still Has Lots of Equity After The Theft* 11:06 - The Theft Was Unnecessary For Further Fundraising* 12:10 - How Much Control Will The Nonprofit Retain?* 24:22 - Will These Control Rights Survive And Do Anything?* 27:26 - What About OpenAI’s Deal With Microsoft?* 32:39 - What

109:33

AI #140: Trying To Hold The Line

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2025/10/30

Podcast episode for AI #140: Trying To Hold The Line. 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-140-trying-to-hold-the-line?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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