Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast

RTMH: Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas on AI

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 * 00:03:09 - Table of Contents * 00:03:50 - A Brief History of Magnifica Humanitas * 00:13:50 - Economic Models Very Different From Our Own * 00:15:47 - A New Jerusalem * 00:18:08 - So Sayeth The Pope (on AI) * 00:34:03 - The Case Against Human Achievement * 00:37:01 - Truth, Justice and the Vatican Way * 00:40:03 - They Took Our Jobs * 00:45:19 - What Is Not Fair In Love and War * 00:52:21 - Come Ye Christian Faithful * 00:54:55 - The Other Missing Mood * 00:57:31 - Pope Given About Five Words * 01:01:20 - The Anthropic Principle * 01:03:29 - Claude Can Read Your Code https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/rtmh-pope-leos-magnifica-humanitas?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/rtmh-pope-leos-magnifica-humanitas?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]

Gemini 3.5 Flash Looks Good For How Fast It Is

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 * 00:38 - Introducing Google Gemini three point five ‘Flash’ * 05:20 - Other People’s Benchmarks * 06:34 - Reactions * 12:29 - Google AI Search * 13:21 - Google Daily Brief * 14:29 - Google I/O Day https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gemini-35-flash-looks-good-for-how?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/gemini-35-flash-looks-good-for-how?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 #169: New Knowledge

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 * 00:01:17 - Table of Contents * 00:04:46 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility * 00:06:42 - Do The Math * 00:07:59 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility * 00:08:35 - Huh, Upgrades * 00:08:48 - The Prior Restraint Era Begins * 00:10:43 - On Your Marks * 00:11:13 - METR Frontier Risk Report * 00:14:57 - Choose Your Fighter * 00:15:40 - Overcoming Bias * 00:16:18 - Get My Agent On The Line * 00:17:34 - Your Prize Is Slop * 00:24:45 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon * 00:28:38 - Cyber Lack of Security * 00:30:17 - Copyright Confrontation * 00:30:26 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer * 00:32:37 - Unprompted Attention * 00:32:51 - They Took Our Jobs * 00:38:20 - Get Involved * 00:39:20 - Introducing * 00:40:09 - In Other AI News * 00:41:44 - Show Me the Money * 00:44:12 - Show Me The Compute * 00:45:32 - Quiet Speculations * 00:49:21 - Time’s Up * 00:50:37 - People Just Say Things * 00:53:46 - OpenAI PACs Just Say Things * 00:57:20 - The Quest for Sane Regulations * 01:00:16 - Chip City * 01:04:04 - Pick Up The Phone * 01:04:33 - The Week in Audio * 01:04:50 - Rhetorical Innovation * 01:11:14 - Missing Mood * 01:18:07 - Americans Really Hate AI * 01:20:33 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult * 01:25:54 - Greetings From The Department of War * 01:30:28 - Messages From Janusworld * 01:30:48 - The Lighter Side https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-169-new-knowledge?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-169-new-knowledge?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]

Childhood And Education #19: Letting Kids Be Kids #2

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 * 00:35 - People Don’t Let Kids Do Things * 03:26 - Half The People Are Worse Than Average * 04:29 - Let Your Children Play * 05:53 - Don’t Fear The CPS * 10:14 - Daycare * 13:13 - Daycare Costs * 15:39 - Lying * 17:53 - Iterated Games * 18:31 - Different Kids Are Different * 19:22 - Punishments https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/childhood-and-education-19-letting?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/childhood-and-education-19-letting?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]

Dating Roundup #12: Sex and Violence

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 * 00:13 - You’re Single Because You Suck At Kissing * 01:21 - You’re Not Single But You’re Sexually Incompatible * 02:48 - You’re Single Because You Aren’t Into BDSM * 08:19 - You’re Single Because You Didn’t Do The Work * 16:18 - You’re Single Because Being a Dominant Is Too Much Work * 23:15 - You’re Single And Would Rather Be Free Use * 26:02 - You’re Single Because You Wouldn’t or Did Choke Her * 27:37 - You’re Single Because You Have Very Particular Preferences * 29:18 - You’re Single Because of Polygyny * 30:19 - You’re Single Because Polyamory Isn’t Right For You * 33:58 - You’re Single And Call It Solo Polyamory * 37:55 - You’re Single Because You Didn’t Go To Slutcon * 45:49 - You’re Single So Let’s Marry Aella https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/dating-roundup-12-sex-and-violence?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/dating-roundup-12-sex-and-violence?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]