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**Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast**

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The $140K Question: Cost Changes Over Time Dec 17, 2025

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Podcast episode for The $140K Question: Cost Changes Over Time.

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 01:29 - The Debate Continues

* 03:06 - The Cost of Thriving Index Redux

* 05:18 - The Housing Theory Of Everything Remains Undefeated

* 12:02 - Did We Halt the Rise in Healthcare and Education Costs?

* 17:30 - Healthcare Costs

* 22:47 - Higher Education Costs

* 27:36 - Services Productivity is Rising But What Even Is Productivity Measuring

* 29:48 - On Clothing In Particular

* 30:30 - Our Price Free

* 31:19 - By Default Supply Side Is The Problem

* 34:23 - The Kids Are Financially Alright In Historical Terms

* 39:45 - Live Like a Khan

* 42:43 - We Should Be Doing Far Better On All This

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The $140,000 Question Dec 16, 2025

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Podcast episode for The $140,000 Question.

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 01:59 - Table of Contents

* 02:27 - None Of This Makes Any Sense

* 04:20 - Let’s Debunk The Whole Calculation Up Front

* 08:42 - The Debunking Chorus

* 13:14 - Okay It’s Not $140,000 But The Vibes Mean Something

* 14:36 - Needing Two Incomes Has A High Cost

* 19:27 - I Lied

* 23:58 - But That’s Not Important Right Now

* 24:12 - Poverty Trap

* 28:50 - Poverty Trap Versus Poverty Line

* 32:17 - Double or Nothing

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GPT-5.2 Is Frontier Only For The Frontier Dec 15, 2025

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Podcast epiosde for GPT-5.2 Is Frontier Only For The Frontier.

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 00:25 - The Bottom Line

* 01:55 - Introducing GPT-five point two

* 03:50 - Official Benchmarks

* 06:49 - GDPVal

* 09:52 - Unofficial Benchmarks

* 13:00 - Official Hype

* 14:18 - Public Reactions

* 14:39 - Positive Reactions

* 20:33 - Personality Clash

* 25:22 - Vibing the Code

* 28:02 - Negative Reactions

* 30:52 - But Thou Must (Follow The System Prompt)

* 33:05 - Slow

* 34:09 - Model Card And Safety Training

* 37:48 - Deception

* 40:05 - Preparedness Framework

* 42:05 - Rush Job

* 43:26 - Frontier Or Bust

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Monthly Roundup #37: December 2026 Dec 12, 2025

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Podcast episode for Monthly Roundup #37: December 2026

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 00:17 - Ban Gain of Function Research

* 05:23 - In The Zone

* 05:57 - A Price Is A Signal Wrapped In An Incentive

* 07:09 - While I Cannot Condone This

* 08:48 - The Gift Of Having A Gift To Give Away

* 09:27 - Good News, Everyone

* 12:18 - Paranoia, Paranoia

* 19:35 - A Good Book

* 21:21 - For Your Entertainment

* 22:59 - And The Warner Sister Dot

* 24:57 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game

* 27:20 - Think Of The Children

* 31:11 - Sports Go Sports

* 33:32 - Antisocial Media

* 35:02 - Government Working

* 39:47 - Variously Effective Altruism

* 40:19 - Party Time, Excellent

* 43:54 - Waste, Fraud, Abuse But Mostly No One Looked

* 45:12 - How You Do Anything

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AI #146: Chipping In Dec 11, 2025

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Podcast episode for AI #146: Chipping In.

* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:01:29 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:03:01 - ChatGPT Needs More Mundane Utility

* 00:05:44 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:06:06 - On Your Marks

* 00:08:48 - Choose Your Fighter

* 00:10:26 - Get My Agent On The Line

* 00:12:17 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 00:12:54 - Fun With Media Generation

* 00:13:16 - Copyright Confrontation

* 00:13:25 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

* 00:15:10 - They Took Our Jobs

* 00:21:48 - Americans Really Do Not Like AI

* 00:24:58 - Get Involved

* 00:26:32 - Introducing

* 00:27:25 - Gemini 3 Deep Think

* 00:28:38 - In Other AI News

* 00:30:57 - This Means War

* 00:32:28 - Show Me the Money

* 00:32:49 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

* 00:34:59 - Quiet Speculations

* 00:36:29 - Impossible

* 00:39:17 - Can An AI Model Be Too Much?

* 00:40:48 - Try Before You Tell People They Cannot Buy

* 00:43:20 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

* 00:44:22 - The Chinese Are Smart And Have A Lot Of Wind Power

* 00:45:26 - White House To Issue AI Executive Order

* 00:52:01 - H200 Sales Fallout Continued

* 01:00:48 - Democratic Senators React To Allowing H200 Sales

* 01:02:14 - Independent Senator Worries About AI

* 01:05:17 - The Week in Audio

* 01:05:47 - Timelines

* 01:07:25 - Scientific Progress Goes Boink

* 01:11:28 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 01:15:28 - Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This

* 01:16:28 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 01:18:13 - What AIs Will Want

* 01:22:08 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 01:26:05 - Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 01:28:36 - The Lighter Side

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Childhood and Education #15: Got To Get Out Dec 10, 2025

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Podcast episode for Childhood and Education #15: Got To Get Out.

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 00:23 - Bullying

* 03:09 - Discipline Death Spiral

* 04:29 - Ban Phones In Schools

* 05:53 - At Least Ban Phones During Class Seriously What The Hell

* 07:47 - RCT On Banning Phones

* 16:09 - Look What You Made Me Do

* 17:44 - DEI

* 18:55 - Equity Consultants

* 20:01 - Rules Are Rules

* 20:19 - School Shooting Statistics Are Fake And Active Shooter Drills Must Stop

* 22:23 - The War on Childhood

* 23:48 - Separation Of School And Home

* 24:19 - School Choice

* 24:34 - School is Hell

* 24:51 - Null Hypothesis Watch

* 27:29 - Education Labor Theory of Value

* 29:03 - Wrong on the Internet Including About Home School

* 46:30 - You Cannot Defer To Experts In A World Like This

* 47:25 - The Lighter Side

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Selling H200s to China Is Unwise and Unpopular Dec 09, 2025

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Podcast episode for Selling H200s to China Is Unwise and Unpopular.

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 01:29 - The Announcement

* 04:43 - How Bad Would This Be?

* 12:55 - Is There A Steelman Case For This Other Than ‘Trade Always Good’?

* 17:38 - Compute Is A Key Limiting Factor For China and Chinese Labs

* 19:13 - What About That All Important ‘Tech Stack’?

* 22:05 - Selling H200s Hurts America In The AI Race

* 23:41 - Nvidia Number Did Not Go Up That Much

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Little Echo Dec 08, 2025

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Podcast episode for Little Echo.

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I too believe that we will win.

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DeepSeek v3.2 Is Okay And Cheap But Slow Dec 05, 2025

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Podcast episode for DeepSeek v3.2 Is Okay And Cheap But Slow.

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 00:44 - A Brief History of DeepSeek

* 03:52 - Once More, With Feeling

* 07:31 - Reading The Paper

* 09:27 - Open Language Model Offers Mundane Utility

* 12:25 - Those Benchmarks

* 17:21 - Open Language Model Doesn’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 18:45 - Open Language Model Does Do The Math

* 19:59 - I’ll Get You Next Time, Gadget

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AI #145: You've Got Soul Dec 04, 2025

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Podcast episode for AI #145: You’ve Got Soul.

* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:01:49 - Table of Contents

* 00:06:17 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:07:17 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:08:31 - On Your Marks

* 00:10:15 - Get My Agent On The Line

* 00:10:49 - Advertising Is Coming

* 00:12:11 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 00:18:29 - Fun With Media Generation

* 00:19:52 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

* 00:21:04 - You Drive Me Crazy

* 00:21:22 - Unprompted Attention

* 00:21:35 - They Took Our Jobs

* 00:27:18 - Get Involved

* 00:28:30 - Introducing

* 00:28:54 - Variously Effective Altruism

* 00:32:48 - In Other AI News

* 00:35:35 - Show Me the Money

* 00:35:41 - Quiet Speculations

* 00:36:55 - Seb Krier On Agents Versus Multiagents

* 00:44:05 - Olivia Moore Makes 2026 Predictions

* 00:47:04 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

* 00:48:15 - Americans Really Do Not Like AI

* 00:53:47 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

* 00:55:55 - My Offer Is Nothing

* 01:01:27 - America Pauses

* 01:03:08 - David Sacks Covered In New York Times

* 01:06:37 - The Week in Audio

* 01:07:06 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 01:07:56 - To The Moon

* 01:14:55 - Showing Up

* 01:19:29 - DeepMind Pivots Its Interpretability Research

* 01:22:33 - The Explicit Goal Of OpenAI Is Recursive Self-Improvement

* 01:27:55 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 01:35:07 - Misaligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence Is Difficult To Hire For

* 01:36:02 - You’ve Got Soul

* 01:47:16 - Disagreements About Timelines

* 01:51:48 - Other Disagreements About Timelines

* 01:57:18 - Messages From Janusworld

* 01:57:32 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 01:57:51 - The Lighter Side

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