Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: The System Card

AI #176 Part 1: Doing It Live

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 * 00:00:47 - Table of Contents * 00:03:08 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility * 00:05:35 - Language Models Gain Unexpected Affordances * 00:08:40 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility * 00:09:22 - Pay The Man His Money * 00:09:58 - Huh, Upgrades * 00:10:04 - Grok 4.5 Exists * 00:11:40 - F*** It We’re Doing It Live * 00:12:49 - On Your Marks * 00:13:36 - Better Call Sol * 00:25:44 - Get My Agent On The Line * 00:26:35 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon * 00:28:45 - Fool Me Twice * 00:30:32 - I Like Your Style * 00:37:04 - Enough With That Style * 00:40:18 - Fun With Media Generation * 00:42:20 - Copyright Confrontation * 00:42:59 - Cyber Lack of Security * 00:43:20 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer * 00:49:33 - They Took Our Jobs * 00:55:00 - Get Involved * 00:56:15 - In Other AI News * 01:00:58 - Show Me the Money * 01:01:23 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-176-part-1-doing-it-live?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-176-part-1-doing-it-live?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at app.askwhocasts.com [https://app.askwhocasts.com/], Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe [https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Childhood and Education #20: Phones and Screens

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 * 00:21 - Table of Contents * 00:45 - EdTech * 07:16 - NonEdTech * 08:42 - Do Not Ban Social Media Outright * 13:43 - Some Modern Kids Media Is Pretty Great * 15:31 - Ban Phones In Schools (1) * 18:51 - Your Offer Is Acceptable * 23:25 - Ban Phones In Schools (2) * 24:46 - Screen Time * 27:19 - Inappropriate Content * 30:26 - Now Here’s The Deal https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/childhood-and-education-20-phones?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/childhood-and-education-20-phones?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at app.askwhocasts.com [https://app.askwhocasts.com/], Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe [https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

No Space Like J-Space

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 * 00:20 - Through A Different Lens * 01:59 - Establishing J-Space As A Global Workspace * 05:56 - Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering? * 10:08 - Assistant J * 11:05 - The Power Of Virtuous Thinking * 19:23 - High Praise * 24:58 - Everyone Remains Confused About Consciousness * 34:31 - Further Research * 38:35 - Don’t Think https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/no-space-like-j-space?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/no-space-like-j-space?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe [https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Fable #6: The Return of the King

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 03:11 - The Blip 09:57 - The White House Explanation 12:01 - Everything Remains Ad Hoc 12:33 - Take What You Can Get 13:59 - The Problem Is Real 14:56 - GLM-5.2 Being Frontier Remains Obvious Nonsense 18:11 - Mythos Might Be Smarter Than You Are 21:08 - Let The Record Reflect 22:41 - Stationary Bandits 26:58 - Use This Window Well https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/fable-6-the-return-of-the-king?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/fable-6-the-return-of-the-king?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe [https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

AI #175: The Fable Continues

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 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon * 00:18:06 - Cyber Lack of Security * 00:19:23 - On Writing * 00:24:51 - You Drive Me Crazy * 00:28:04 - They Took Our Jobs * 00:34:22 - Get Involved * 00:34:47 - Introducing * 00:35:08 - In Other AI News * 00:36:49 - Show Me the Money * 00:37:16 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble * 00:40:14 - Quiet Speculations * 00:44:41 - Glorious AI Future * 00:48:51 - Three Pills * 00:50:11 - The Anthropic Economic Indexas * 00:52:58 - Leader Of The PAC * 00:54:14 - Theory Of The AI Firm * 00:55:23 - Chip City * 00:56:46 - The Week in Audio * 00:59:28 - People Really Hate AI * 01:03:16 - Rhetorical Innovation * 01:07:12 - The First Rule Of Functional Decision Theory Is * 01:10:36 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult * 01:13:44 - Names Have Power * 01:14:33 - Cooperative Alignment * 01:22:41 - People Just Say Things * 01:24:11 - Escape From The Permanent Underclass * 01:37:24 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone * 01:38:42 - The Lighter Side https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-175-the-fable-continues?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-175-the-fable-continues?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe [https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]