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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 00:48 - The American People Really Hate Data Centers

* 02:59 - Transmission Lines Are The Control Group

* 03:43 - Thesis: People Mostly Dislike Data Centers Because They Dislike and Distrust AI, Tech Companies, Big Money And Building Things

* 05:07 - No It’s Mostly Not the Messaging About AI In General

* 10:33 - No This Mostly Isn’t An Op

* 11:40 - No This Isn’t Luxury Belief or Moral Panic

* 13:46 - A Lot Of People Really Do Want To Stop AI

* 14:35 - A Lot Of Other People Are Voting No On Tech Or The Man Generally

* 17:23 - Locals Feel Entitled To Heavily Tax The Gains From Construction

* 22:15 - Stupid Mistakes Like NDAs Don’t Help

* 22:43 - People Don’t Like Building or Building New Tech

* 26:09 - What About The Real Physical Concerns?

* 27:48 - Find A Place To Center Your Data

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 03:56 - This Is Fine

* 04:37 - Anthropic Derangement Syndrome

* 07:40 - People Don’t Understand LLM Outputs Are Already Random

* 08:54 - People Don’t Trust The Method To Be Costless

* 12:41 - People Are Suspicious Of Any Alteration On Principle

* 14:36 - Maybe It’s Partly The Word Watermark

* 15:27 - A Lot Of People Don’t Want To Get Caught

* 16:09 - There Are Some Times You Prefer Not To Be Recognized

* 16:23 - There Are Some Good Reasons To Be Concerned

* 16:41 - Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat

* 18:49 - The Writing In The Middle and Error Rates

* 21:22 - Millions For Defense But Not One Cent For Tribute

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* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:01:23 - Table of Contents

* 00:04:58 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:06:11 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:06:47 - Huh, Upgrades

* 00:10:21 - On Your Marks

* 00:14:09 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 00:21:06 - Hello, Fellow Humans

* 00:23:57 - Fun With Media Generation

* 00:25:32 - Cyber Lack of Security

* 00:27:46 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

* 00:29:05 - They Took Our Jobs

* 00:31:19 - Get Involved

* 00:33:05 - Introducing

* 00:33:17 - In Other AI News

* 00:35:27 - Show Me the Money

* 00:39:13 - And It’s Gone

* 00:41:20 - Quiet Speculations

* 00:45:15 - Quickly, There’s No Time

* 00:46:17 - Singularity Singularity Singularity Singularity Oh I Don’t Know

* 00:47:48 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

* 00:53:12 - Chip City

* 00:54:33 - The Week in Audio

* 00:55:11 - People Just Say Things

* 00:57:58 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 01:03:06 - Loyalty Uber Alles

* 01:06:16 - A Hive Of Scum And Villainy

* 01:11:19 - That Would Be Bad Therefore It Won’t Work

* 01:13:52 - Robert Reich Uses Simple Logic

* 01:16:26 - People Really Hate AI

* 01:17:11 - Coordinating An Agent Swarm Is Difficult

* 01:22:49 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 01:24:16 - It’s Not The Incentives, It’s You, Also It’s The Incentives

* 01:26:16 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 01:27:00 - People Are Worried About So, So Many Other Things Too

* 01:32:21 - Cooperative Alignment

* 01:33:19 - The Lighter Side

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-182-pause-for-reflection?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 02:14 - OpenAI Has Some Alignment Problems

* 04:36 - Slow Down There Good Buddy

* 10:50 - What Exactly Is Paused?

* 13:15 - Three Pillars

* 16:02 - I’ve Got My Eye On You

* 19:42 - The Most Forbidden Technique

* 21:37 - Monitoring Is Only Defense-In-Depth

* 25:25 - Security

* 26:07 - Alignment

* 33:04 - A Crisis of Culture

* 34:55 - Closer Collaboration

* 35:59 - Reports of Death of Preparedness Team Greatly Exaggerated

* 38:11 - The OpenAI Foundation Just Funds Things

* 40:34 - Quickly, There’s No Time

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-takes-initial-steps-to-address?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:01:07 - Agent Model 1 and Agent Model 2

* 00:02:53 - Executive Summary (1)

* 00:04:17 - The Rules Are Serious But Not Literal

* 00:06:39 - Misalignment Is a State of Mind (2.5)

* 00:12:28 - Autonomy Threat Model 1: Misalignment in High-Stakes Settings (2)

* 00:17:30 - Some Strange Uses Of The Word Safe I Wasn’t Previously Aware Of

* 00:19:19 - Now Versus Future (2.17)

* 00:19:55 - The Core Claims And Argument (2.6)

* 00:31:11 - The Rest of the Important Arguments In Section 2

* 00:33:48 - Risk Assessment (2.19)

* 00:34:41 - Pre-Internal-Deployment Review (2.18)

* 00:35:44 - A Guide To Internal Use Monitoring (2.23.1)

* 00:43:06 - Blocking Interventions (2.23.2)

* 00:44:25 - The Power Seeking Environment Evaluation (2.24)

* 00:45:27 - Opus 4.8-Reward-Hacker (2.25)

* 00:47:34 - Autonomy threat model 2: Risks from automated R&D (3)

* 00:51:03 - Yes That Does Seem Kind Of Risky

* 00:53:41 - Could We Replace Our Researchers?

* 00:55:30 - How Much Could We Be Accelerating Our AI Researchers?

* 00:58:53 - What Could Possibly Go Wrong If We Replaced Our Researchers?

* 00:59:35 - Risk Mitigations For AI R&D Automation

* 01:08:08 - Overall Risk From Automation of AI R&D

* 01:08:22 - Biological and Technically Also Chemical Weapons Production

* 01:12:05 - The Threat Models for Biological and Chemical Weapons

* 01:17:35 - Model Capabilities (4.4)

* 01:19:06 - Classifiers (4.5)

* 01:21:07 - Acceleration Dynamics (5.1)

* 01:22:09 - Distillation (5.1.1)

* 01:23:22 - Safety Process Failures (5.2)

* 01:23:34 - Refusing To Find Innovative Misalignment Techniques (5.2.2)

* 01:24:55 - Exposing the Chain of Thought Reasoning To Grading Pressure Quite a Lot (5.2.3)

* 01:26:27 - Directly Training On Misaligned Behavior During a Production Training Run (5.2.4)

* 01:29:06 - An instance of unmonitored unrestricted agents with access to sensitive resources (5.2.5)

* 01:30:06 - Repeated training on alignment-faking transcript datasets (5.2.6)

* 01:32:47 - Benefits From Anthropic’s Operating as a Frontier AI company (5.3)

* 01:34:57 - Model Weight Security (6.4)

* 01:35:17 - Risk Has Been Reported

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/anthropic-risk-report-august-2026?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 01:00 - Introduction 2

* 03:30 - Is AI R&D Verifiable Enough To Unlock Recursive Self-Improvement?

* 11:28 - Is AI progress bottlenecked by human expert data?

* 21:41 - Flat token prices suggest scaling has been slow

* 24:46 - Skills AI can’t train on: does it even need them?

* 25:29 - Aligned to whom?

* 36:06 - Recent incidents of AIs colluding and deceiving humans

* 39:32 - What could possibly go wrong? A concrete scenario

* 48:05 - From reward hacking to takeover

* 53:16 - Time To Update

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* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:02:10 - Table of Contents

* 00:05:12 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:06:42 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:10:07 - Huh, Upgrades

* 00:18:27 - On Your Marks

* 00:23:28 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 00:27:36 - Cyber Lack of Security

* 00:31:50 - Overcoming Bias

* 00:32:43 - In Which I Feel Compelled To Read six thousand Words From Mark Zuckerberg

* 00:41:51 - Get Involved

* 00:43:06 - Slow Down There Good Buddy

* 00:49:44 - Astra For The People

* 00:51:36 - Watermarking

* 00:52:34 - In Other AI News

* 00:54:44 - Show Me the Money

* 00:58:07 - Quickly, There’s No Time

* 00:58:33 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

* 01:00:15 - The Institute For Marginal Low Regret Progress

* 01:08:19 - Congress Asks Good Questions

* 01:10:01 - The Week in Audio

* 01:14:18 - People Just Say Things

* 01:15:09 - I’m Telling You For The Last Time

* 01:17:42 - Uncommon Knowledge

* 01:21:00 - What Did They Mean By That?

* 01:21:47 - Too Soon

* 01:22:47 - The Three AI Pills

* 01:26:44 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 01:35:04 - Some People Still Think The HuggingFace Hack Was a Marketing Gimmick

* 01:36:23 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 01:44:11 - Cooperative Alignment

* 01:45:05 - The Lighter Side

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 01:03 - Plagiarize

* 02:10 - The Jury Duty Scam

* 03:16 - Play The Good Guy

* 04:32 - Don’t Dither

* 06:49 - UVC Lighting

* 07:34 - Goal Factoring For Relaxation Time Is Underrated

* 10:08 - Protein Is Mostly A Solved Problem

* 11:37 - Twitter Changes Payment Programs

* 13:14 - Wikipedia

* 14:30 - Minds Mostly Do Things For Reasons

* 15:52 - Woke 1 Was Crazy

* 17:39 - For Your Entertainment

* 23:58 - The Unicontext

* 26:23 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game

* 30:34 - I Was Promised Flying Self-Driving Cars

* 31:02 - Sports Go Sports

* 31:36 - To Last a Lifetime

* 33:37 - Government Working

* 35:54 - Jones Act Watch

* 36:37 - Variously Effective Altruism

* 37:19 - The Lighter Side

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/monthly-roundup-45-august-2026

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* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:00:08 - Pre Post Mortem

* 00:01:11 - Important Correction: OpenAI Didn’t Know About First Message Board

* 00:04:27 - There Were No Snitches And No AIs Got Stitches

* 00:08:47 - I’d Like To Speak To My Supervisor

* 00:12:10 - I Am Jack’s Relative Lack Of Surprise

* 00:14:26 - One Does Not Simply

* 00:15:46 - Once You Start Down The Dark Path

* 00:16:49 - Original Pastebin

* 00:22:28 - Judgment Day Is Inevitable, Say Those Working On Judgment Day

* 00:28:30 - Roon Tells It Like It Is

* 00:34:53 - OpenAI Knows It Has Some Misalignment Problems

* 00:37:59 - Others React With Alarm To What Happened

* 00:38:22 - The Cooperative Alignment Perspective

* 00:42:41 - Nostalgebraist Is Surprised That They Are Surprised

* 00:56:19 - If Your Reaction Is Not That We Need To Ban Creating Superintelligence Until We Are Ready, You Need A Damn Good Reason

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 01:24 - Danger, Will Robinson

* 02:39 - Progress Fast and Slow

* 05:04 - Statements of Support For Pacing the Frontier

* 14:46 - No One In Charge

* 15:42 - Pacing The Frontier

* 16:49 - Pausing the Frontier

* 19:18 - Senator Sanders Demands A Pause

* 22:53 - Moderate Prudence

* 26:04 - That Escalated Quickly

* 26:59 - If You Are In Mundane Alignment Pivot To Scalable Alignment

* 31:34 - Taking It Fast

* 32:51 - Full Speed Ahead

* 33:54 - Suicide Squad

* 35:21 - Prepare To Adjust Your Pace

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