The Once And Future Fable #4

AI #174: You're It

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 * 00:01:07 - Table of Contents * 00:04:36 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility * 00:06:14 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility * 00:06:28 - Huh, Upgrades * 00:06:51 - On Your Marks * 00:07:45 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon * 00:14:53 - Fun With Media Generation * 00:15:47 - Cyber Lack of Security * 00:18:25 - Overcoming Bias * 00:19:28 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer * 00:22:01 - They Took Our Jobs * 00:23:44 - Get Involved * 00:25:55 - Introducing * 00:26:08 - Claude Tag * 00:36:03 - In Other AI News * 00:37:37 - More On GLM-5.2 * 00:39:27 - ChatGPT Health * 00:41:10 - Middle Of The Journey * 00:55:44 - New Medical Diagnostic Just Dropped * 00:58:38 - Google on AI Control * 01:08:05 - The Once And Future Fable * 01:10:10 - Fable: The First Lawsuit * 01:11:07 - Dean Ball Joins OpenAI * 01:14:59 - Show Me the Money * 01:15:13 - Quiet Speculations * 01:18:09 - Alex Bores Loses In NY-12 By 4% * 01:30:04 - The Quest for Sane Regulations * 01:32:30 - Chip City * 01:36:12 - The Week in Audio * 01:36:58 - People Just Say Things * 01:38:01 - Rhetorical Innovation * 01:43:47 - There Are Two Pills * 01:44:59 - Who Evals The Evals * 01:46:10 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult * 01:51:01 - Cooperative Alignment * 01:52:01 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone * 01:53:32 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone * 01:55:42 - The Lighter Side https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-174-youre-it?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-174-youre-it?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 #4

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 * 01:54 - A Rather Terrible Policy * 03:21 - The People Have Spoken * 04:00 - Thank You, Next * 06:27 - Be Very Very Quiet * 06:59 - What These Babies Can And Cannot Do * 13:14 - What’s The Worst That Could Happen? * 24:25 - The Data Retention Policy Is About Defense In Depth * 25:12 - Pick Up The Phone * 28:13 - People Just Say Things https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-4?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-once-and-future-fable-4?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]

Monthly Roundup #43: June 2026

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 * 00:28 - RIP FiveThirtyEight * 01:25 - RIP Books * 02:13 - Bad News * 10:14 - Good Advice * 18:47 - Opportunity Knocks * 19:30 - Lower Awareness * 23:00 - The New York Times Has Some Issues * 23:25 - Liar Liar * 26:46 - Conspiracy Theory * 27:12 - Good News, Everyone * 27:23 - For Your Entertainment * 28:56 - A Matter of Taste * 36:51 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game * 39:11 - I Was Promised Flying Self-Driving Cars * 40:21 - Sports Go Sports * 40:52 - Government Working * 43:42 - Jones Act Watch * 44:53 - Humans Can Be Strategic * 46:56 - Variously Effective Altruism * 48:14 - Support Anti-Aging Research * 49:19 - The Lighter Side https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-43-june-2026?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-43-june-2026?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]

GLM-5.2 Is The New Best Open Model

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 * 01:57 - Alex Bores For Congress In NY-12 * 03:44 - Signs of Life * 05:06 - The Benchmarks * 08:45 - GLM-5.2 Is Distilled From Claude * 09:38 - Positive Responses * 15:28 - Finding The Niche * 17:07 - Negative Reactions * 19:33 - Looking To The Future https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/glm-52-is-the-new-best-open-model?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/glm-52-is-the-new-best-open-model?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 Fable 5 and Mythos 5: Capabilities

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 * 00:01:11 - The Official Pitch * 00:04:10 - Technical Details * 00:04:34 - The System Prompt and Jailbreak * 00:06:49 - Benchmarks * 00:17:52 - Other People’s Benchmarks * 00:25:01 - The Classifiers Are Not Messing Around * 00:26:56 - The Classifiers Need Work * 00:32:26 - The Classifiers Have Consequences * 00:33:24 - First Hit Is Free * 00:34:01 - How Easily We Forget * 00:35:10 - Data Retention Is An Issue * 00:35:37 - Fable For The Win * 00:40:04 - Andrej Karpathy Is Impressed * 00:41:47 - Every Is Very Impressed * 00:42:53 - Other People Are Impressed * 00:54:30 - Know How To Tell a Fable * 00:56:23 - You Can Just Make Things * 00:58:46 - You Can Just Install Things * 00:59:11 - Good Personality * 01:01:00 - Fable Writes A Fable * 01:10:56 - Is That Code * 01:14:00 - Fable Crosses The Threshold * 01:14:34 - Man With A Plan * 01:15:29 - Less Impressed Assessments * 01:18:50 - Actively Negative Assessments * 01:19:20 - Coherence * 01:20:38 - Good Night And Good Luck * 01:21:09 - Curious Fable * 01:21:25 - I See You, Baby * 01:21:40 - We Finally Did It We Know How To Count Letters * 01:22:54 - That’s Not My Style * 01:30:50 - The Lighter Side https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-fable-5-and-mythos-5-capabilities?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-fable-5-and-mythos-5-capabilities?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]