Twitter Thoughts For You

Twitter Thoughts For You

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 - Defend Your Feed Via At Least One List * 02:51 - Block Early, Block Often, Know Your Triggers * 03:33 - Lists Change What Following Means * 05:54 - It (Wasn’t) For You * 07:34 - It’s For You * 11:30 - The Previous Time Twitter Transformed Its Algorithm Again * 17:50 - Twitter Still Hates Links And That’s Terrible * 28:54 - Twitter Turns Its API Back On * 32:31 - Many Of The Bots Are Human * 35:27 - The Rise of Slop * 38:21 - Block Or Do Not Block * 39:46 - How To Make Money On Twitter * 42:16 - In Brief https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/twitter-thoughts-for-you?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/twitter-thoughts-for-you?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]

Better Call Sol The Workhorse

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 * 00:03:03 - The Official Pitch * 00:12:18 - Sol Proposes A Proof Of The Double Cover Conjecture * 00:12:58 - The Official Benchmarks * 00:20:25 - Vend That Bench * 00:22:59 - Thinking Fast and Slow * 00:25:04 - Other People’s Benchmarks * 00:31:58 - Have Robust Backups * 00:35:16 - That’s Not What You Were Thinking * 00:35:38 - Helping Hands * 00:36:15 - Writing * 00:37:43 - Don’t Stop Now * 00:39:31 - Sol Can Code And Do Math * 00:40:51 - Better Call Sol Cause You Can’t Call Fable * 00:41:44 - Only Call As Much Sol As You Need * 00:43:34 - Positive Reactions * 00:46:16 - It’s A Good Model, Sir * 00:49:06 - Negative Reactions * 00:50:02 - Sol The Workhorse * 00:52:40 - Pair Programmer * 00:59:35 - Pleased To Meet You * 01:01:30 - Sol Thinks You Better https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/better-call-sol-the-workhorse?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/better-call-sol-the-workhorse?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]

Introduction for and Reactions to Plan A

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 * 00:01:39 - You Only Get Five Words * 00:08:49 - Proactive Response To Objections * 00:09:35 - Initial Introductions and Endorsements * 00:15:13 - A Positive Vision * 00:19:19 - Alternative Plans * 00:21:01 - Plan S for Shutdown * 00:23:28 - Something (Unexpectedly Good) Ever Happens * 00:25:02 - Thus Selective Optimism * 00:26:13 - Quickly, There’s No Time * 00:27:18 - Race Conditions * 00:29:30 - This Is A Lot Of Diffusion And Economic Growth * 00:30:48 - Living In China * 00:32:55 - Planning For Shifting Overton Windows Is Essential * 00:34:14 - The Standard Handwave * 00:37:49 - Some Equate Any Controls Over Compute To Authoritarian Dystopia And Those Same People Mostly Think Superintelligence Won’t Happen * 00:39:39 - Vitalik Buterin Is Right, The Crux Is Future AI Capability Levels * 00:47:41 - The Authoritarian Objection * 00:53:38 - Concepts Of A Plan * 00:55:33 - The Kitchen Sink * 00:56:45 - Selective Claims Of Authoritarianism * 00:58:49 - You Either Can Steer The Future Or You Cannot * 01:01:25 - Cooperative Alignment https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/introduction-for-and-reactions-to?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/introduction-for-and-reactions-to?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]

AI #176 Part 2: Plan B

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 * 00:01:02 - Table of Contents * 00:02:45 - Quiet Speculations * 00:06:18 - The Goalposts Are Dyson Spheres * 00:09:55 - People Just Say Things * 00:10:22 - Three Pills * 00:16:32 - The Quest for Sane Regulations * 00:18:10 - OpenAI National Security Principles * 00:25:13 - Greetings From The Department Of War * 00:27:17 - Chip City * 00:28:23 - Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This * 00:36:28 - Their AI Propaganda Bots * 00:38:50 - Rhetorical Innovation * 00:40:33 - You Learn * 00:42:09 - You May Be Tan And Thin And Rich But You’re a Tool * 00:46:47 - Train Those Thoughts * 00:47:44 - Train Out Those Thoughts * 00:52:35 - My Own Private Idaho * 00:54:21 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult * 01:00:40 - No Space Like J-Space * 01:11:56 - Cooperative Alignments * 01:12:18 - The Lighter Side https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-176-part-2-plan-b?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-176-part-2-plan-b?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]

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]