Better Call Sol The Workhorse

Demis Hassabis on the New Coming Age

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. 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 https://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. * 00:00 - Introduction * 01:04 - The Core Statement and Request * 02:39 - Things Left Unsaid * 04:11 - The Proposal * 06:04 - A Good Start But Insufficient * 09:02 - Skeptics Of Future AI Capabilities * 11:01 - DeepMind On Bioresilience * 12:55 - Part 2: DeepMind Folds To The Department of War * 13:49 - DeepMind Leadership Failed Us * 19:52 - This Was a Failure We Must Learn From https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/demis-hassabis-on-the-new-coming?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/demis-hassabis-on-the-new-coming?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 #177 Part 2: Wish You Were Here

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. 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 https://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. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:01:31 - Table of Contents * 00:02:57 - Xi Gives A Good Speech on AI * 00:18:28 - Quiet Speculations * 00:22:26 - Tyler Cowen On Rebuilding The Future * 00:26:06 - The Quest for Sane Regulations * 00:27:46 - Wish You Were Here * 00:31:24 - The Week in Audio * 00:32:00 - New York Issues Moratorium On Data Centers * 00:34:54 - People Just Say Things * 00:35:55 - Rhetorical Innovation * 00:44:40 - Imagine Asking Questions * 00:47:00 - Anthropic Surveys Things It Calls Misalignment * 01:00:32 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult * 01:04:55 - The Most Forbidden Technique * 01:07:28 - Cooperative Alignment * 01:19:50 - The Lighter Side https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-177-part-2-wish-you-were-here?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-177-part-2-wish-you-were-here?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 #177 Part 1: Tip of the Iceberg

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Monthly Roundup #44: July 2026

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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]