WSJ Article Claiming China Has Matched Anthropic Is Obvious Nonsense

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]

Claude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier But Has Its Uses

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 - Flagged As Unhealthy? (6.5.1) * 17:47 - Model Welfare (7) * 26:21 - Live From AI Village * 28:12 - For I Contain Multitudes * 34:40 - Official Benchmarks * 40:17 - Other People’s Benchmarks * 40:42 - Positive Reactions * 45:39 - Negative Reactions * 49:33 - A Short Sonnet https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-sonnet-5-is-not-frontier-but?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-sonnet-5-is-not-frontier-but?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]

The Once And Future Fable #5

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 Beware Of The Leopard * 18:34 - The Once And Present Mythos * 21:59 - What Is To Be Done * 25:45 - Distillation * 28:24 - What Would Banning Open Source Even Mean * 29:24 - Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-5?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-5?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]