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    “AI #138 Part 2: Watch Out For Documents” by Zvi

    As usual when things split, Part 1 is mostly about capabilities, and Part 2 is mostly about a mix of policy and alignment. Table of Contents The Quest for Sane Regulations. The GAIN Act and some state bills. People Really Dislike AI. They would support radical, ill-advised steps. Chip City. Are we taking care of business? The Week in Audio. Hinton talks to Jon Stewart, Klein to Yudkowsky. Rhetorical Innovation. How to lose the moral high ground. Water Water Everywhere. AI has many big issues. Water isn’t one of them. Read Jack Clark's Speech From The Curve. It was a sincere, excellent speech. How One Other Person Responded To This Thoughtful Essay. Some aim to divide. A Better Way To Disagree. Others aim to work together and make things better. Voice Versus Exit. The age old [...] --- Outline: (00:20) The Quest for Sane Regulations (05:56) People Really Dislike AI (12:22) Chip City (13:12) The Week in Audio (13:24) Rhetorical Innovation (20:53) Water Water Everywhere (23:57) Read Jack Clark's Speech From The Curve (28:26) How One Other Person Responded To This Thoughtful Essay (38:43) A Better Way To Disagree (59:39) Voice Versus Exit (01:03:51) The Dose Makes The Poison (01:06:44) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult (01:10:08) You Get What You Actually Trained For (01:15:54) Messages From Janusworld (01:18:37) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone (01:22:40) The Lighter Side The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: October 17th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gCuJ5DabY9oLNDs9B/ai-138-part-2-watch-out-for-documents --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    1 h 25 min

  2. -1 J

    “AI #138 Part 1: The People Demand Erotic Sycophants” by Zvi

    Well, one person says ‘demand,’ another says ‘give the thumbs up to’ or ‘welcome our new overlords.’ Why quibble? Surely we’re all making way too big a deal out of this idea of OpenAI ‘treating adults like adults.’ Everything will be fine. Right? Why not focus on all the other cool stuff happening? Claude Haiku 4.5 and Veo 3.1? Walmart joining ChatGPT instant checkout? Hey, come back. Alas, the mass of things once again got out of hand this week, so we’re splitting the update into two parts. Table of Contents Earlier This Week. OpenAI does paranoid lawfare, China escalates bigly. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Help do your taxes, of course. Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. Beware the false positive. Huh, Upgrades. Claude Haiku 4.5, Walmart on ChatGPT instant checkout. We Patched The Torment Nexus, Turn It [...] --- Outline: (00:51) Earlier This Week (02:25) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility (05:44) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility (11:47) Huh, Upgrades (14:55) We Patched The Torment Nexus, Turn It Back On (27:49) On Your Marks (34:33) Choose Your Fighter (35:50) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon (36:15) Fun With Media Generation (40:32) Copyright Confrontation (41:04) AIs Are Often Absurd Sycophants (44:32) They Took Our Jobs (54:04) Find Out If You Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone (55:42) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (01:02:59) AI Diffusion Prospects (01:11:13) The Art of the Jailbreak (01:14:38) Get Involved (01:14:57) Introducing (01:16:48) In Other AI News (01:18:22) Show Me the Money (01:20:45) Quiet Speculations --- First published: October 16th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n4xxSKwwP3SYaRqBS/ai-138-part-1-the-people-demand-erotic-sycophants --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    1 h 30 min

  3. -2 J

    “Monthly Roundup #35: October 2025” by Zvi

    It is increasingly often strange compiling the monthly roundup, because life comes at us fast. I look at various things I’ve written, and it feels like they are from a different time. Remember that whole debate over free speech? Yeah, that was a few weeks ago. Many such cases. Gives one a chance to reflect. In any case, here we go. Table of Contents Don’t Provide Bad Training Data. Maybe Don’t Say Maybe. Throwing Good Parties Means Throwing Parties. Air Travel Gets Worse. Bad News. You Do Not Need To Constantly Acknowledge That There Is Bad News. Prediction Market Madness. No Reply Necessary. While I Cannot Condone This. Antisocial Media. Government Working. Tylenol Does Not Cause Autism. Jones Act Watch. For Science!. Work Smart And Hard. So Emotional. [...] --- Outline: (00:37) Don't Provide Bad Training Data (02:25) Maybe Don't Say Maybe (03:00) Throwing Good Parties Means Throwing Parties (05:06) Air Travel Gets Worse (06:16) Bad News (09:03) You Do Not Need To Constantly Acknowledge That There Is Bad News (12:52) Prediction Market Madness (16:00) No Reply Necessary (19:49) While I Cannot Condone This (23:42) Antisocial Media (29:22) Government Working (47:12) Tylenol Does Not Cause Autism (51:12) Jones Act Watch (52:13) For Science! (54:29) Work Smart And Hard (55:34) So Emotional (59:17) Where Credit Is Due (01:01:30) Good News, Everyone (01:03:37) I Love New York (01:08:14) For Your Entertainment (01:17:14) Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game (01:19:53) I Was Promised Flying Self-Driving Cars (01:24:33) Sports Go Sports (01:29:06) Opportunity Knocks --- First published: October 15th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XLbwizZeuhoHpdAvE/monthly-roundup-35-october-2025 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    1 h 30 min

  4. -3 J

    “Trade Escalation, Supply Chain Vulnerabilities and Rare Earth Metals” by Zvi

    What is going on with, and what should we do about, the Chinese declaring extraterritorial exports controls on rare earth metals, which threaten to go way beyond semiconductors and also beyond rare earths into things like lithium and also antitrust investigations? China also took other actions well beyond only rare Earths, including going after Qualcomm, lithium and everything else that seemed like it might hurt, as if they are confident that a cornered Trump will fold and they believe they have escalation dominance and are willing to use it. China now has issued reassurances that it will allow all civilian uses of rare earths and not to worry, but it seems obvious that America cannot accept a Chinese declaration of extraterritorial control over entire world supply chains, even if China swears it will only narrowly use that power. In response, Trump has threatened massive tariffs and cancelled [...] --- Outline: (01:20) Was This Provoked? (02:43) What Is China Doing? (03:37) How Is America Responding? (05:58) How Is China Responding To America's Response? (07:14) What To Make Of China's Attempted Reassurances? (08:15) How Should We Respond From Here? (09:37) It Looks Like China Overplayed Its Hand (10:36) We Need To Mitigate China's Leverage Across The Board (13:11) What About The Chip Export Controls? (14:01) This May Be A Sign Of Weakness (15:06) What Next? --- First published: October 14th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rTP5oZ3CDJR429Dw7/trade-escalation-supply-chain-vulnerabilities-and-rare-earth --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    17 min

  5. -4 J

    “OpenAI #15: More on OpenAI’s Paranoid Lawfare Against Advocates of SB 53” by Zvi

    A little over a month ago, I documented how OpenAI had descended into paranoia and bad faith lobbying surrounding California's SB 53. This included sending a deeply bad faith letter to Governor Newsom, which sadly is par for the course at this point. It also included lawfare attacks against bill advocates, including Nathan Calvin and others, using Elon Musk's unrelated lawsuits and vendetta against OpenAI as a pretext, accusing them of being in cahoots with Elon Musk. Previous reporting of this did not reflect well on OpenAI, but it sounded like the demand was limited in scope to a supposed link with Elon Musk or Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, links which very clearly never existed. Accusing essentially everyone who has ever done anything OpenAI dislikes of having united in a hallucinated ‘vast conspiracy’ is all classic behavior for OpenAI's Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane [...] --- Outline: (02:35) What OpenAI Tried To Do To Nathan Calvin (07:22) It Doesn't Look Good (10:17) OpenAI's Jason Kwon Responds (19:14) A Brief Amateur Legal Analysis Of The Request (21:33) What OpenAI Tried To Do To Tyler Johnston (25:50) Nathan Compiles Responses to Kwon (29:52) The First Thing We Do (36:12) OpenAI Head of Mission Alignment Joshua Achiam Speaks Out (40:16) It Could Be Worse (41:31) Chris Lehane Is Who We Thought He Was (42:50) A Matter of Distrust --- First published: October 13th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/txTKHL2dCqnC7QsEX/openai-15-more-on-openai-s-paranoid-lawfare-against --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    46 min

  6. 10 OCT.

    “2025 State of AI Report and Predictions” by Zvi

    The 2025 State of AI Report is out, with lots of fun slides and a full video presentation. They’ve been consistently solid, providing a kind of outside general view. I’m skipping over stuff my regular readers already know that doesn’t bear repeating. Qwen The Fine Tune King For Now Nathan Benaich: Once a “Llama rip-off,” @Alibaba_Qwen now powers 40% of all new fine-tunes on @huggingface. China's open-weights ecosystem has overtaken Meta's, with Llama riding off into the sunset…for now. I highlight this because the ‘for now’ is important to understand, and to note that it's Qwen not DeepSeek. As in, models come and models go, and especially in the open model world people will switch on you on a dime. Stop worrying about lock-ins and mystical ‘tech stacks.’ Rise Of The Machines Robots now reason too. “Chain-of-Action” planning brings structured thought to the [...] --- Outline: (00:39) Qwen The Fine Tune King For Now (01:19) Rise Of The Machines (01:40) Model Context Protocol Wins Out (02:06) Benchmarks Are Increasingly Not So Useful (02:56) The DeepSeek Moment Was An Overreaction (03:40) Capitalism Is Hard To Pin Down (04:30) The Odds Are Against Us And The Situation Is Grim (06:35) They Grade Last Year's Predictions (09:35) Their Predictions for 2026 --- First published: October 10th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AvKjYYYHC93JzuFCM/2025-state-of-ai-report-and-predictions --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    20 min

  7. 9 OCT.

    “AI #137: An OpenAI App For That” by Zvi

    OpenAI is making deals and shipping products. They locked in their $500 billion valuation and then got 10% of AMD in exchange for buying a ton of chips. They gave us the ability to ‘chat with apps’ inside of ChatGPT. They walked back their insane Sora copyright and account deletion policies and are buying $50 million in marketing. They’ve really got a lot going on right now. Of course, everyone else also has a lot going on right now. It's AI. I spent the last weekend at a great AI conference at Lighthaven called The Curve. The other big news that came out this morning is that China is asserting sweeping extraterritorial control over rare earth metals. This is likely China's biggest card short of full trade war or worse, and it is being played in a hugely escalatory way that America obviously can’t accept. Presumably this [...] --- Outline: (01:33) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility (03:39) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility (05:13) Huh, Upgrades (08:21) Chat With Apps (11:32) On Your Marks (12:51) Choose Your Fighter (13:47) Fun With Media Generation (24:03) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon (27:46) You Drive Me Crazy (31:33) They Took Our Jobs (34:35) The Art of the Jailbreak (34:55) Get Involved (38:31) Introducing (42:18) In Other AI News (43:38) Get To Work (45:45) Show Me the Money (50:24) Quiet Speculations (52:15) The Quest for Sane Regulations (01:02:31) Chip City (01:06:53) The Race to Maximize Rope Market Share (01:08:49) The Week in Audio (01:09:28) Rhetorical Innovation (01:10:13) Paranoia Paranoia Everybody's Coming To Test Me (01:13:10) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult (01:14:12) Free Petri Dish (01:15:45) Unhobbling The Unhobbling Department (01:17:46) Serious People Are Worried About Synthetic Bio Risks (01:19:09) Messages From Janusworld (01:28:54) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone (01:32:14) Other People Are Excited About AI Killing Everyone (01:40:48) So You've Decided To Become Evil (01:45:25) The Lighter Side --- First published: October 9th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YfvqLidW5BGpiFrNF/ai-137-an-openai-app-for-that --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    1 h 51 min

  8. 8 OCT.

    “NEPA, Permitting and Energy Roundup #2” by Zvi

    It's been about a year since the last one of these. Given the long cycle, I have done my best to check for changes but things may have changed on any given topic by the time you read this. The NEPA Problem NEPA is a constant thorn in the side of anyone attempting to do anything. A certain kind of person responds with: “Good.” That kind of person does not want humans to do physical things in the world. They like the world as it is, or as it used to be. They do not want humans messing with it further. They often also think humans are bad, and should stop existing entirely. Or believe humans deserve to suffer or do penance. Or do not trust people to make good decisions and safeguard what matters. To them [...] --- Outline: (00:21) The NEPA Problem (01:53) The Full NEPA Solution (02:43) The Other Full NEPA Solution (03:59) Meanwhile (06:06) Yay Nuclear Power (14:22) Yay Solar and Wind Power (18:11) Yay Grid Storage (18:42) Yay Transmission Lines (19:40) American Energy is Cheap (20:48) Geoengineering (22:29) NEPA Standard Procedure is a Doom Loop (25:34) Categorical Exemptions (26:13) Teachers Against Transportation (32:41) Also CEQA (36:36) It Can Always Be Worse (39:35) How We Got Into This Mess (41:00) Categorical Exclusions (47:23) A Green Bargain (54:18) Costs Versus Benefits (55:27) A Call for Proposals (56:18) The Men of Two Studies (59:55) A Modest Proposal --- First published: October 8th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HqAJyxhdJcEfhH2nW/nepa-permitting-and-energy-roundup-2 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    1 h 2 min
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