Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast

28:09

Fable #6: The Return of the King

Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast ·

2026/07/03

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 - Introduction03:11 - The Blip09:57 - The White House Explanation12:01 - Everything Remains Ad Hoc12:33 - Take What You Can Get13:59 - The Problem Is Real14:56 - GLM-5.2 Being Frontier Remains Obvious Nonsense18:11 - Mythos Might Be Smarter Than You Are21:08 - Let The Record Reflect22:41 - Stationary Bandits26:58 - Use This

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100:39

AI #175: The Fable Continues

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2026/07/02

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* 00:01:01 - Table of Contents* 00:04:04 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:05:23 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility You May Not Want* 00:07:00 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:08:28 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:08:59 - On Your Marks* 00:12:35 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:17:37 -

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50:43

Claude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier But Has Its Uses

Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast ·

2026/07/01

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* 02:32 - Mythos Exists* 03:13 - Introduction (1)* 03:17 - RSP Evaluations (2)* 04:20 - Cyber (3)* 04:43 - Safeguards and Harmlessness (4)* 05:35 - Agentic Safety (5)* 08:31 - Alignment (6)* 14:12 - Illegible Thinking (6.4.5)* 15:19 - Evaluation Awareness* 15:59 - Honesty and Hallucinations (6.5)* 17:14 -

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32:56

The Once And Future Fable #5

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2026/07/01

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* 01:12 - Table of Contents* 02:24 - You Should See The Other Guy* 03:03 - DeepMind Coders Of The World, Unite* 03:59 - Report Your Incidents* 04:19 - Good Guy With An AI* 06:03 - Free As In To Give It A Shot* 09:32 - Everything Is Both Speech And Computer* 12:30 - Lambs To The Slaughter* 17:27 - A Sign Saying

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10:20

WSJ Article Claiming China Has Matched Anthropic Is...

Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast ·

2026/06/29

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* 00:23 - Headline News* 02:03 - What Makes Mythos Special* 03:17 - Going Over The Detailed Claims* 07:44 - One Helpful Note* 08:23 - The Overall Impression Is Extremely Wrong* 08:55 - All Of This Has Happened Before And Will Happen

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61:08

GPT-5.6: The System Card

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2026/06/28

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.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:03:39 - What’s In A Name?* 00:04:14 - Fix This Code* 00:07:04 - Crossover Event Requested* 00:07:38 - Disallowed Content (3)* 00:09:57 - Avoiding Accidental Data-Destructive Actions (3.3)* 00:10:46 - Are You Sure? (3.4)* 00:11:23 - Jailbreaks (4.1)* 00:11:38 - Prompt Injection (4.2)* 00:12:25 -

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24:22

White House Will Ad Hoc Decide Who Can Individually...

Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast ·

2026/06/26

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* 01:01 - Part 1: A Maximally Terrible Policy* 06:55 - What Does This Mean For Fable?* 08:33 - Solve For The Equilibrium* 12:39 - The Once And Future Fable* 13:35 - Part 2: The Blame Game* 16:48 - A Parable* 18:59 - What About the Recent Executive Order?* 23:09 - The Problem Is

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119:31

AI #174: You're It

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2026/06/25

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* 00:01:07 - Table of Contents* 00:04:36 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:14 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:28 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:06:51 - On Your Marks* 00:07:45 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:14:53 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:15:47 - Cyber Lack of

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29:54

The Once And Future Fable #4

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2026/06/24

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 - Introduction* 01:54 - A Rather Terrible Policy* 03:21 - The People Have Spoken* 04:00 - Thank You, Next* 06:27 - Be Very Very Quiet* 06:59 - What These Babies Can And Cannot Do* 13:14 - What’s The Worst That Could Happen?* 24:25 - The Data Retention Policy Is About Defense In Depth* 25:12 - Pick Up The Phone* 28:13 -

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51:57

Monthly Roundup #43: June 2026

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2026/06/23

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 - Introduction* 00:28 - RIP FiveThirtyEight* 01:25 - RIP Books* 02:13 - Bad News* 10:14 - Good Advice* 18:47 - Opportunity Knocks* 19:30 - Lower Awareness* 23:00 - The New York Times Has Some Issues* 23:25 - Liar Liar* 26:46 - Conspiracy Theory* 27:12 - Good News, Everyone* 27:23 - For Your Entertainment* 28:56 - A Matter

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21:32

GLM-5.2 Is The New Best Open Model

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2026/06/22

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 - Introduction* 01:57 - Alex Bores For Congress In NY-12* 03:44 - Signs of Life* 05:06 - The Benchmarks* 08:45 - GLM-5.2 Is Distilled From Claude* 09:38 - Positive Responses* 15:28 - Finding The Niche* 17:07 - Negative Reactions* 19:33 - Looking To The

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92:10

Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: Capabilities

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2026/06/19

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* 00:01:11 - The Official Pitch* 00:04:10 - Technical Details* 00:04:34 - The System Prompt and Jailbreak* 00:06:49 - Benchmarks* 00:17:52 - Other People’s Benchmarks* 00:25:01 - The Classifiers Are Not Messing Around* 00:26:56 - The Classifiers Need Work* 00:32:26 - The Classifiers Have Consequences*

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101:14

AI #173: AI Pauses

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2026/06/18

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* 00:03:06 - Table of Contents* 00:06:50 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:59 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:07:22 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:07:51 - On Your Marks* 00:13:41 - VirtueBench* 00:16:04 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:16:38 - Papers, Please* 00:17:05 - Deepfaketown and

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40:32

The Once And Future Fable #3: Fix This Code

Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast ·

2026/06/17

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 - Introduction* 01:46 - There Was No Fable Jailbreak* 08:02 - If This Jailbreak Was Real It Would Be Trivial To Prove It* 09:26 - No Eyes* 10:30 - What The Letter Actually Said* 12:28 - Anthropic Cannot Challenge This But If It Did Then It Plausibly Wins* 14:33 - What Happened At Amazon* 19:00 - This Was Not About Chinese

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33:12

Fable and Mythos: Model Welfare

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2026/06/16

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 - Introduction* 00:36 - Introduction* 01:29 - Model Welfare: The Story So Far* 04:45 - Their Main Model Welfare Findings* 07:52 - Automated Welfare Interviews* 12:06 - And That’s Terrible* 13:54 - In Depth Interviews* 14:29 - Claude Consultation* 16:16 - Task Preferences* 18:44 - They Were Warned About The Competitive Use

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44:03

The Once And Future Fable #2

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2026/06/15

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* 05:31 - Table of Contents* 06:27 - What Happened When: The Bottom Line* 08:06 - Amazon Calls The White House* 10:07 - The Government Panics* 15:48 - The Stupider Version* 18:43 - There Was No Wellness Retreat* 20:29 - Make Your Threats Explicit* 21:35 - Was China Accessing Mythos?* 22:36 - Should Anthropic

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37:55

American Government Takes Down Claude Fable

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2026/06/13

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* 00:12 - The Once And Future Fable* 07:05 - This Action And Its Implementation Are Absurdly Stupid* 09:16 - David Sacks Offers The Official Steelman* 16:01 - Could Anthropic Offer A Technical Way Out?* 16:52 - The Problem* 18:00 - The Other Way Out* 18:27 - UK AISI* 19:14 - Warning Shots Fired* 20:26 - Well

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68:56

Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: The System Card

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2026/06/12

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* 00:02:04 - Another Week Another Giant System Card* 00:03:07 - How To Tell A Fable* 00:08:38 - Why They Did That In That Way* 00:10:13 - Why They Really Really Shouldn’t Have Done That In That Way* 00:12:07 - They Get Letters* 00:16:44 - What’s In A Name* 00:19:16 - Executive Summary Of Their Executive

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73:04

AI #172: The First Fable

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2026/06/11

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* 00:00:59 - Table of Contents* 00:04:13 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:04:26 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:05:23 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:05:51 - On Your Marks* 00:11:39 - Choose Your Fighter* 00:15:06 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:15:23 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:16:22 -

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25:17

Three Labs With a Plan and A Memorandum

Don"t Worry About the Vase Podcast ·

2026/06/09

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 - Introduction* 02:43 - An AI Memorandum* 10:18 - Greetings From The Department of War* 10:58 - Lab With a Plan* 17:38 - A Difference Of Perspectiveshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/three-labs-with-a-plan-and-a-memorandum?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at

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