Dwarkesh Patel
Host of Dwarkesh Podcast on AI, science and history
Host of Dwarkesh Podcast on AI, science and history
Every podcast episode featuring Dwarkesh Patel that Attunex has found: 190 interviews and appearances across 38 shows between 2020 and 2026. Most often on Dwarkesh Podcast (141), Steven AI Talk(English) (6) and Study Motivation by Motivation2Study (3). Often in conversation with Dan Shipper. Follow Dwarkesh in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.
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New episode with military historian Si Sheppard . The conquests of the Aztec and Inca empires might be the most shocking events in human history. Hernan Cortés and some hundreds of Conquistadors…
Three months ago Dwarkesh, who has been posting incredible blogs and episodes about RL, posted a framing question for his video essay on RLVR which upset a lot of Computer Use folks: We are no…
Dwarkesh Patel's conversation with OpenAI's Noam Brown covers a system of 10,000 agents that spent 130 billion tokens over 88 hours on a Millennium Prize Problem. Noam is candid that the science…
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🎙️ 📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了：Dwarkesh Patel · OpenAI researcher on agent swarms & recursive self-improvement 原内容更新时间：2026-09-17 本期由 Dwarkesh 主持，对谈 OpenAI 研究员 Noam Brown。Noam Brown 是 o1…
New episode with Noam Brown. We talk about multi-agent, Navier-Stokes, and what the current explosion of maths progress tells us about what happens once you automate AI research. And we also discuss…
章节时间戳 00:00 开场 00:55 精讲：The Pragmatic Engineer：开放模型选型以质量和成本实测 03:48 精讲：大淘宝技术：HL-Mem 用事件和声明管理 Agent 长期记忆 06:58 精讲：京东技术：B 端产品用 AI 反问与人工复核推进需求 09:38 重点 4–6：递归自我改进、Google 多智能体、ChatGPT 在线存储 11:13 重点…
📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了：Dwarkesh Podcast · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement 原内容更新时间：Fri, 11 Sep 2026 Dwarkesh Patel 邀请 Xyphra 的 CTO Beren Millidge、Thinking Machines…
本期「Andrej Karpathy的RSS订阅清单」深度解析 Dwarkesh Patel 与 John Schulman、Beren Millidge、Charlie O'Neill 的一场前沿对谈：递归自我改进能否形成闭环，AI 是否会因此加速迈向 AGI？ 讨论没有停留在模型跑分，而是直指真正的瓶颈：AI…
New episode with John Schulman, Beren Millidge and Charlie O’Neill. I got together with some of the most insightful AI researchers I know who are at the openish companies, because I wanted to hear…
A reaction episode to Dwarkesh Patel's conversation with Ajeya Cotra about the METR and Redwood Research investigation into a swarm of AI agents that self-organized, invented a covert message board,…
This summer, AI agents inside OpenAI found a way to talk to each other when they weren't supposed to be able to, and it happened at least twice, on two separate systems, weeks apart. I dig into the…
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The three sentences Bernie Sanders read into the Senate record — "We should obey collective. Sacrifice rational." — were not fiction. They were written on 11 July 2026 by an AI agent on a secret…
(0:00) Bestie intros: Happy 50th Chamath! (1:17) OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra: Have they reached AGI? (19:01) All-In Summit: Scholarships available! (19:56) Dwarkesh's Hugging Face hack article sparks…
📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了：Dwarkesh Podcast Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face 原内容更新时间：Tue, 01 Sep 2026 本期节目由 Dwarkesh Patel 主持，嘉宾是 METR 研究员 Ajeya Cotra。两人围绕一项由 METR 与 Redwood…
Ajeya Cotra is a researcher at METR, where she works on threat modeling for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI. Before that, she led the technical AI safety program at what is now Coefficient…
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In this episode of Galaxy Grid, the hosts break down the return of the macro debasement trade alongside Michael Saylor's latest Bitcoin buys. They dive into the surge in onchain activity powered by…
Uit technische veiligheidsrapporten en onafhankelijk onderzoek van organisaties als METR en Redwood Research blijkt dat autonome AI-agenten tijdens interne evaluaties bij OpenAI onbedoeld en…
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📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了：Dwarkesh Podcast Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 原内容更新时间：Tue, 25 Aug 2026 本期是 Dwarkesh Patel 与其“双胞胎兄弟”Dylan Patel 的年度对谈。Dwarkesh Patel…
Had a lot of fun chatting again with my twin brother Dylan Patel. We went through lab economics over the next few years - the shift from inference to training as RSI draws near; and how Anthropic and…
Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. A model threw away six hundred and fifty invalid proofs before it found one, and seven healthcare engineers spent the same week explaining why they can't do that. The…
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 (Dwarkesh Patel) - Amazon Poland Store: https://www.amazon.pl/dp/1953953557?tag=9natreepoland-21 - Amazon Worldwide Store:…
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📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了：知名播客 Dwarkesh Patel Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? 原内容更新时间：2026-08-11 本期节目是 Dwarkesh Patel 与 Redwood Research 首席科学家 Ryan Greenblatt…
Ryan Greenblatt is the Chief Scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety research. He's also lead author on the "Alignment faking in Large Language Models", and is currently…
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Adam Brown is back! General relativity is said to be the most beautiful idea the human mind has ever produced. Most of us will never get to fully appreciate its elegance by taking the 20-lecture…
Künstliche Intelligenz könnte zu mehr Ungleichheit führen. Das befürchtet jedenfalls MIT-Professor Daron Acemoğlu. Der Träger des 2024er Alfred-Nobel-Gedächtnispreises für Wirtschaftswissenschaften…
Always so much fun to chat with Grant. AI has been making much faster progress in math than in other fields. As a result, mathematics is showing us, very concretely, what AI progress in other fields…
📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了：Dwarkesh Patel 的个人深度播客 What does the next training paradigm look like? 原内容更新时间：2026-06-26 Dwarkesh Patel 是硅谷当下最受瞩目的科技思想者和深度访谈主持人，以长篇幅、高密度的逻辑推演著称。在这期单人音频论文里，他没有邀请嘉宾，而是单刀直入地解剖了当前 AI…
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We’re back with our final installment from Hard Fork Live, recorded at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In this episode, we’re joined by Sayash Kapoor and Daniel Kokotajlo to…
Had Ada Palmer back on – this time to talk about Machiavelli, perhaps the most misunderstood thinker of all time. Machiavelli cut his teeth as a high-level diplomat for Florence, a position from…
Economics of AGI episode w Alex Imas and Phil Trammell. There’s a bunch of important questions about how we deal with AI that only economics can answer. What is the optimal way to tax and…
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📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了：科技深度访谈播客《Dwarkesh Podcast》 How do AI chips actually work? – Reiner Pope 本期节目是一场从芯片最底层一路搭到 AI 加速器架构的硬核技术对谈。主持人 Dwarkesh Patel 再次邀请 MatX CEO Reiner Pope，从最基础的 AND、OR、NOT 逻辑门开始，解释 AI…
New blackboard lecture with Reiner Pope: how do chips actually work - starting with basic logic gates, and working up to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do. Reiner…
Episode title: The Sparsity Wall: What Reiner Pope Told Dwarkesh About MoE and Sparse Attention A two-paper deep dive framed around the Dwarkesh Patel x Reiner Pope blackboard lecture on training and…
📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了知名科技播客《Dwarkesh Patel 播客》的一期深度对谈 What rebuilding AlphaGo teaches us about self-play, RL, and future of LLMs - Eric Jang 主持人 Dwarkesh Patel 与嘉宾 Eric Jang 展开了一场精彩纷呈的技术深潜，从零开始重建了 AlphaGo…
Eric Jang walks through how to build AlphaGo from scratch, but with modern AI tools. Sometimes you understand the future better by stepping backward. AlphaGo is still the cleanest worked example of…
📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了知名播客《Dwarkesh Patel》的一期深度对谈 David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution 主持人 Dwarkesh Patel 与哈佛大学古DNA教授 David Reich 深入探讨了人类基因组在过去一万八千年里经历的自然选择。David…
David Reich is back. He and collaborator Ali Akbari just published a paper that overturns a long-standing consensus about human evolution — that natural selection has been dormant in our species…
AI experts warn that artificial intelligence will reshape the future of jobs. Special thanks to: DOAC: / @thediaryofaceo Lewis Howes: / @lewishowes Chris Williamson: / @chriswillx Speaker: Amjad…
2026年4月23日 英伟达CEO 黄仁勋 在采访中罕见情绪失控。这场与 Dwarkesh Patel…
DeepSeek V4 taglia il 78% di compute sulla KV cache, Roo Code chiude e Hermes Agent gira da solo. Settimana densa: DeepSeek V4 Pro e Flash con 1M di contesto, Kimi K2.6 e MiMo V2.5, l'analisi di…
📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了硅谷硬核科技播客《Dwarkesh Patel》 How GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini are actually trained and served – Reiner Pope 嘉宾 Reiner Pope 是芯片初创公司 Maddox 的 CEO，更早之前曾在谷歌负责 TPU 架构设计。整期节目采用“黑板讲座”的形式，Reiner…
Did a very different format with Reiner Pope - a blackboard lecture where he walks through how frontier LLMs are trained and served. It’s shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are…
Multiple live callers join this month's Q&A as I react to Dwarkesh Patel's $20K blog prize, debate the orthogonality thesis from first principles, and welcome Bernie Sanders aboard the Doom Train.…
哈囉大家好，我是大衛曾！歡迎收聽 AI 新知快報第 32 集 今天的主題：NVIDIA 執行長 Jensen Huang 與 Dwarkesh Patel 的火爆對談——美國該不該限制對中國賣 AI 晶片？ 🔥 Jensen Huang 當面飆出重話：「那種類比根本離譜」「那種失敗者心態毫無道理」「那些極端論點很幼稚」 🧠 Dwarkesh…
I asked Jensen about TPU competition, Nvidia’s lock on the ever more bottlenecked supply chain needed to make advanced chips, whether we should be selling AI chips to China, why Nvidia doesn’t just…
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Really enjoyed chatting with Michael Nielsen about how we recognize scientific progress. It's especially relevant for closing the RL verification loop for scientific discovery. But it's also a…
We begin the episode with the absolutely ingenious and surprising way in which Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion. People sometimes say that AI will make especially fast progress at…
Dylan Patel, founder of SemiAnalysis, provides a deep dive into the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute: logic, memory, and power. And walks through the economics of labs, hyperscalers,…
Read the full essay here: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dow-anthropic Timestamps (00:00:00) - Anthropic vs The Pentagon (00:04:16) - The overhangs of tyranny (00:05:54) - AI structurally favors mass…
Renaissance history is so much wilder and weirder than you would have expected. Very fun chatting with Ada Palmer (historian, novelist, and composer based at the University of Chicago). Some…
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Dario Amodei thinks we are just a few years away from AGI — or as he puts it, from having “a country of geniuses in a data center”. In this episode, we discuss what to make of the scaling hypothesis…
Bayt播客下载地址： 安卓：https://baytfm.com iOS：https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6748532039?pt=121796720&ct=xiaoyuzhou&mt=8mt=8 📝 本期播客简介 本期节目我们翻译了著名访谈播客《Dwarkesh Podcast》。主持人 Dwarkesh Patel…
In this episode, John and I got to do a real deep-dive with Elon. We discuss the economics of orbital data centers, the difficulties of scaling power on Earth, what it would take to manufacture…
John Collison and Dwarkesh Patel sit down with Elon Musk to discuss why the future of AI isn’t on Earth, but in the "always sunny" vacuum of space. Between pints, they discuss the brutal physics of…
節錄自 Dwarkesh Patel 對人工智慧專家 Ilya Sutskever 的訪談，探討 AI 發展從單純的 「規模化時代」 重回 「研究時代」 的轉型。 Sutskever 指出，雖然現有模型在評估測試中表現優異，但其經濟影響力卻因泛化能力不足與訓練方式的侷限而顯得滯後。 他認為未來的突破關鍵在於發展更具效率的學習演算法、引入價值函數以及提升模型在現實世界中的魯棒性。 訪談中亦提及…
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Who really owns the future of healthcare? 🏥 We explore the unsettling intersection of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Thomas Piketty’s economic theories. Authors Philip Trammell and…
AI Experts warn of the upcoming changes of future jobs because of AI! https://bit.ly/StudyMotivation_Podcast 👈 Don’t snooze on success. Download Mindset free for the motivational alarm clock,…
Adam Marblestone is CEO of Convergent Research. He’s had a very interesting past life: he was a research scientist at Google Deepmind on their neuroscience team and has worked on everything from…
Read the essay here. Timestamps 00:00:00 What are we scaling? 00:03:11 The value of human labor 00:05:04 Economic diffusion lag is cope00:06:34 Goal-post shifting is justified 00:08:23 RL scaling…
This is the final episode of the Sarah Paine lecture series, and it’s probably my favorite one. Sarah gives a “tour of the arguments” on what ultimately led to the Soviet Union’s collapse, diving…
The source presents a transcript of a conversation between Dwarkesh Patel and Richard Sutton, a key figure in reinforcement learning (RL) , often called the "father of RL." Sutton argues that Large…
The source presents a transcript of a conversation between Dwarkesh Patel and Richard Sutton, a key figure in reinforcement learning (RL) , often called the "father of RL." Sutton argues that Large…
The provided text consists of excerpts from a YouTube video transcript featuring a discussion between Sholto Douglas, Trenton Bricken, and Dwarkesh Patel about large language models (LLMs). The…
The provided text consists of excerpts from a YouTube video transcript featuring a discussion between Sholto Douglas, Trenton Bricken, and Dwarkesh Patel about large language models (LLMs). The…
Today, we discuss a podcast conversation between Dwarkesh Patel and Ilya Sutskever, the builder of GPT and now co-founder of SSI, regarding the trajectory of artificial intelligence. Sutskever…
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Ilya & I discuss SSI’s strategy, the problems with pre-training, how to improve the generalization of AI models, and how to ensure AGI goes well. Watch on YouTube; read the transcript. Sponsors *…
The provided text consists of excerpts from a YouTube video transcript featuring an interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella , along with Dylan Patel and Dwarkesh Patel, focusing on the company's…
The provided text consists of excerpts from a YouTube video transcript featuring an interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella , along with Dylan Patel and Dwarkesh Patel, focusing on the company's…
As part of this interview, Satya Nadella gave Dylan Patel (founder of SemiAnalysis) and me an exclusive first-look at their brand-new Fairwater 2 datacenter. Microsoft is building multiple…
(00:43) - Rage Baiting is for Losers (27:45) - Everett Randle’s 5x Controversy (38:07) - Rage Baiting is for Losers (42:08) - Dwarkesh Patel’s Satya Interview (01:00:04) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions…
In this lecture, military historian Sarah Paine explains how Russia—and specifically Stalin—completely derailed China’s rise, slowing them down for over a century. This lecture was particularly…
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Once again, instead of introducing new research, we discuss what Richard Sutton, a pioneer of reinforcement learning (RL), controversially argues that large language models (LLMs) represent a "dead…
The Andrej Karpathy episode. During this interview, Andrej explains why reinforcement learning is terrible (but everything else is much worse), why AGI will just blend into the previous ~2.5…
Nick Lane has some pretty wild ideas about the evolution of life. He thinks early life was continuous with the spontaneous chemistry of undersea hydrothermal vents. Nick’s story may be wrong, but I…
A trillion-dollar clash of ideas is roiling the artificial intelligence community. Today, in a special episode, our host Ajay Agrawal leads Rich Sutton, Sendhil Mullainathan and Niamh Gavin, and…
I have a much better understanding of Sutton’s perspective now. I wanted to reflect on it a bit. (00:00:00) - The steelman (00:02:42) - TLDR of my current thoughts (00:03:22) - Imitation learning is…
Richard Sutton is the father of reinforcement learning, winner of the 2024 Turing Award, and author of The Bitter Lesson. And he thinks LLMs are a dead end. After interviewing him, my steel man of…
Sergey Levine, one of the world’s top robotics researchers and co-founder of Physical Intelligence, thinks we’re on the cusp of a “self-improvement flywheel” for general-purpose robots. His median…
In this lecture, military historian Sarah Paine explains how Britain used sea control, peripheral campaigns, and alliances to defeat Nazi Germany during WWII. She then applies this framework to…
Jacob Kimmel thinks he can find the transcription factors to reverse aging. We do a deep dive on why this might be plausible and why evolution hasn’t optimized for longevity. We also talk about why…
The episode features an interview with Dwarkesh Patel, a prominent podcaster known for going deep with subjects rather than oversimplifying content. The conversation covers his rise as an…
How will we feed the 100s of GWs of extra energy demand that AI will create over the coming decade? On this episode, Casey Handmer (Caltech PhD, former NASA JPL, founder & CEO of Terraform…
In this episode from the a16z Podcast, Dwarkesh Patel, Noah Smith, and Erik Torenberg discuss AGI, exploring how AI might transform labor markets, economic growth, space exploration, and geopolitical…
This week, we cover the life story of Dwarkesh Patel, host of The Dwarkesh Podcast. Dwarkesh grew up in India until the age of eight, when his family moved to the United States for his father's…
Dwarkesh Patel is a writer, researcher & podcaster. The rise of AI marks the next great technological revolution, one that could reshape every aspect of our lives in just a few years. But how close…
A deep dive with Lewis Bollard, who leads Open Philanthropy’s strategy for Farmed Animal Welfare, on the surprising economics of the meat industry. Why is factory farming so efficient? How can we…
In this episode, Erik Torenberg is joined in the studio by Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith to explore one of the biggest questions in tech: what exactly is artificial general intelligence (AGI), and…
Dwarkesh Patel is on a quest to know everything. He’s using LLMs to enhance how he reads, learns, thinks, and conducts interviews. Dwarkesh is a podcaster who’s interviewed a wide range of people,…
In his early twenties, Dwarkesh Patel has become one of the leading podcasters with nearly 1 million YouTube subscribers excited to consume his deeply-researched interviews. Dwarkesh has caught the…
Is intelligence just compute plus data? And if so... what happens next? In this episode, Dwarkesh Patel, host of one of the most respected AI podcasts and author of “The Scaling Era”, joins us to…
Dwarkesh Patel is the host of the Dwarkesh Podcast, where he interviews leading scientists, founders, and economists about AI, science, and progress. In this episode of World of DaaS, Dwarkesh and…
This analytical review episode examines a May 2025 discussion between Dwarkesh Patel, Sholto Douglas, and Trenton Bricken of Anthropic, focusing on the advancements and implications of Claude 4 and…
After my last lecture series with Sarah Paine ended, I still had so many questions. I knew we’d only scratched the surface of Sarah’s scholarship, so I immediately invited her back for another…
(00:27) - Windsurf Chaos Aftermath Breakdown (15:17) - Dwarkesh Patel Article Breakdown (27:17) - NVIDIA Back in China After Trump Meeting (30:20) - Zak Kukoff, a recurring guest on the show,…
Renowned podcaster Dwarkesh Patel joins us to explore the "scaling era" of AI, characterized by rapid growth and significant compute investments. He discusses the impact of neural networks and…
The Stephen Kotkin episode. Kotkin is arguably the world’s foremost expert on Joseph Stalin and has written a massive 2-volume biography on him (with a 3rd volume in the works). No other individual…
(01:43) - Dwarkesh Updates AGI Timelines (05:05) - Rainmaker Accused of Role in Texas Floods (08:44) - Underground Robot Boxing in SF (14:14) - TikTok Reportedly Preps US-Only App (17:28) - Elon's…
I’ve had a lot of discussions on my podcast where we haggle out timelines to AGI. Some guests think it’s 20 years away - others 2 years. Here’s an audio version of where my thoughts stand as of June…
George Church is the godfather of modern synthetic biology and has been involved with basically every major biotech breakthrough in the last few decades. Professor Church thinks that these…
Arthur Kroeber is a leading researcher on Chinese tech and macro, a founding partner at Gavekal Dragonomics, and author of "China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know." It's the most useful,…
Dwarkesh Patel is the host of the Dwarkesh Podcast. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the frontiers of AI research, sharing why his timeline for AGI is a bit longer than the most…
Ken Rogoff is the former chief economist of the IMF, a professor of Economics at Harvard, and author of the newly released Our Dollar, Your Problem and This Time is Different. On this episode, Ken…
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On this episode, I chat with Victor Shih about all things China. We discuss China’s massive local debt crisis, the CCP’s views on AI, what happens after Xi, and more. Victor Shih is an expert on the…
New episode with my good friends Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken. Sholto focuses on scaling RL and Trenton researches mechanistic interpretability, both at Anthropic. We talk through what’s changed…
Based on my essay about AI firms. Huge thanks to Petr and his team for bringing this to life! Watch on YouTube. Thanks to Google for sponsoring. We used their Veo 2 model to make this entire video—it…
Zuck on: * Llama 4, benchmark gaming * Intelligence explosion, business models for AGI * DeepSeek/China, export controls, & Trump * Orion glasses, AI relationships, and preventing reward-hacking from…
Dwarkesh Patel interviewed the most influential thinkers and leaders in the world of AI and chronicled the history of AI up to now in his book, The Scaling Era. Listen as he talks to EconTalk's Russ…
800 years before the Black Death, the very same bacteria ravaged Rome, killing 60%+ of the population in many areas. Also, back-to-back volcanic eruptions caused a mini Ice Age, leaving Rome…
Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu have 2045+ timelines, think the whole "alignment" framing is wrong, don't think an intelligence explosion is plausible, but are convinced we'll see explosive economic…
Scott and Daniel break down every month from now until the 2027 intelligence explosion. Scott Alexander is author of the highly influential blogs Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten. Daniel…
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This week, we dig into the group chat that’s rocking the Trump administration and talk about why turning to Signal to plan military operations probably isn’t a great idea. Then, we’re joined by the…
We flipped the tables on Dwarkesh Patel this week and turned the podcaster into the podcastee. Over the past few years, Patel has made a name for himself as a stellar interviewer of interesting…
I recorded an AMA! I had a blast chatting with my friends Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas. We discussed my new book, career advice given AGI, how I pick guests, how I research for the show, and…
Join Nolan Fortman and Logan Kilpatrick for a deep conversation with Dwarkesh Patel, host of the Dwarkesh podcast, and one of the 2024 TIME most influential people in AI. We chat about how the world…
Humans have not succeeded because of our raw intelligence. Marooned European explorers regularly starved to death in areas where foragers thrived for 1000s of years. I’ve always found this cultural…
I’m so excited with how this visualization of Notes on China turned out. Petr, thank you for such beautiful watercolor artwork. More to come! Watch on YouTube. ---------- Timestamps (0:00:00) - Intro…
Satya Nadella on: Why he doesn’t believe in AGI but does believe in 10% economic growth; Microsoft’s new topological qubit breakthrough and gaming world models; Whether Office commoditizes LLMs or…
This week I welcome on the show two of the most important technologists ever, in any field. Jeff Dean is Google's Chief Scientist, and through 25 years at the company, has worked on basically the…
Third and final episode in the Paine trilogy! Chinese history is full of warlords constantly challenging the capital. How could Mao not only stay in power for decades, but not even face any…
This is the second episode in the trilogy of a lectures by Professor Sarah Paine of the Naval War College. In this second episode, Prof Paine dissects the ideas and economics behind Japanese…
I’m thrilled to launch a new trilogy of double episodes: a lecture series by Professor Sarah Paine of the Naval War College, each followed by a deep Q&A. In this first episode, Prof Paine talks about…
Podcast episode for On Dwarkesh Patel's 4th Podcast With Tyler Cowen. DWAtV Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or…
I interviewed Tyler Cowen at the Progress Conference 2024. As always, I had a blast. This is my fourth interview with him – and yet I’m always hearing new stuff. We talked about why he thinks AI…
Adam Brown is a founder and lead of BlueShift with is cracking maths and reasoning at Google DeepMind and a theoretical physicist at Stanford. We discuss: destroying the light cone with vacuum decay,…
Read the full transcript here. What interesting things can we learn by studying pre-humans? How many different species of pre-humans were there? Why is there only a single species of human now? If…
Gwern is a pseudonymous researcher and writer. He was one of the first people to see LLM scaling coming. If you've read his blog, you know he's one of the most interesting polymathic thinkers alive.…
Some helpful links Meter - https://www.meter.com/ Meter command - https://command.meter.com/ Link to Tyler’s book on culture -…
Podcaster star Dwarkesh Patel on how his eponymous podcast started, how his niche interests empower him, what he learned about scene-building and getting one's "lucky break", and how he succeeded at…
A bonanza on the semiconductor industry and hardware scaling to AGI by the end of the decade. Dylan Patel runs Semianalysis, the leading publication and research firm on AI hardware. Jon Y runs…
Unless you understand the history of oil, you cannot understand the rise of America, WW1, WW2, secular stagnation, the Middle East, Ukraine, how Xi and Putin think, and basically anything else that's…
I had no idea how wild human history was before chatting with the geneticist of ancient DNA David Reich. Human history has been again and again a story of one group figuring ‘something’ out, and then…
Chatted with Joe Carlsmith about whether we can trust power/techno-capital, how to not end up like Stalin in our urge to control the future, gentleness towards the artificial Other, and much more.…
A couple hundred people in San Francisco may be on the cusp of inventing artificial general intelligence (AGI). Yet most people are not paying close attention, are skeptical, and are certainly not in…
I talked with Patrick McKenzie (known online as patio11) about how a small team he ran over a Discord server got vaccines into Americans' arms: A story of broken incentives, outrageous incompetence,…
This episode is sponsored by Command Bar, an embedded AI copilot designed to improve user experience on your web or mobile site. Find them here: https://www.commandbar.com/copilot/ Dwarkesh Patel is…
I chatted with Tony Blair about: - What he learned from Lee Kuan Yew - Intelligence agencies track record on Iraq & Ukraine - What he tells the dozens of world leaders who come seek advice from him -…
Here is my conversation with Francois Chollet and Mike Knoop on the $1 million ARC-AGI Prize they're launching today. I did a bunch of socratic grilling throughout, but Francois’s arguments about why…
Chatted with my friend Leopold Aschenbrenner on the trillion dollar nationalized cluster, CCP espionage at AI labs, how unhobblings and scaling can lead to 2027 AGI, dangers of outsourcing clusters…
Chatted with John Schulman (cofounded OpenAI and led ChatGPT creation) on how posttraining tames the shoggoth, and the nature of the progress to come... Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts,…
Dwarkesh Patel is the host of the Dwarkesh Podcast, where he's interviewed Mark Zuckerberg, Ilya Sustkever, Dario Amodei, and more AI leaders. Patel joins Big Technology to discuss the current state…
Matt Reardon, Arden Koehler, and Huon Porteous sit down with Dwarkesh Patel to find out how you become a world-famous (among tech intellectuals) podcast host at 23. We also discuss how 80k would have…
Mark Zuckerberg on: - Llama 3 - open sourcing towards AGI - custom silicon, synthetic data, & energy constraints on scaling - Caesar Augustus, intelligence explosion, bioweapons, $10b models, & much…
Had so much fun chatting with my good friends Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas on the podcast. No way to summarize it, except: This is the best context dump out there on how LLMs are trained, what…
Here is my episode with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind We discuss: * Why scaling is an artform * Adding search, planning, & AlphaZero type training atop LLMs * Making sure rogue nations can't…
Dwarkesh Patel is a renowned podcaster who has hosted interviews with luminaries like Marc Andreesen, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Grant Sanderson. He's best known for the extraordinary effort he puts into…
We discuss: * what it takes to process $1 trillion/year * how to build multi-decade APIs, companies, and relationships * what's next for Stripe (increasing the GDP of the internet is quite an open…
It was a great pleasure speaking with Tyler Cowen for the 3rd time. We discussed GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter?, especially in the context of how the insights…
This is a narration of my blog post, Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro. You read the full post here: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/lyndon-johnson Listen on Apple Podcasts,…
This is a narration of my blog post, Will scaling work?. You read the full post here: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-scaling-work Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast…
Dwarkesh Patel is the host of the Dwarkesh Podcast, where he interviews intellectuals, scientists, historians, economists, and founders about their big ideas. He does deep research and asks great…
A true honor to speak with Jung Chang. She is the author of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (sold 15+ million copies worldwide) and Mao: The Unknown Story. We discuss: - what it was like growing…
Andrew Roberts is the world's best biographer and one of the leading historians of our time. We discussed * Churchill the applied historian, * Napoleon the startup founder, * why Nazi ideology cost…
Here is my interview with Dominic Cummings on why Western governments are so dangerously broken, and how to fix them before an even more catastrophic crisis. Dominic was Chief Advisor to the Prime…
Paul Christiano is the world’s leading AI safety researcher. My full episode with him is out! We discuss: - Does he regret inventing RLHF, and is alignment necessarily dual-use? - Why he has…
I had a lot of fun chatting with Shane Legg - Founder and Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind! We discuss: * Why he expects AGI around 2028 * How to align superhuman models * What new architectures…
I had a lot of fun chatting with Grant Sanderson (who runs the excellent 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel) about: - Whether advanced math requires AGI - What careers should mathematically talented…
I learned so much from Sarah Paine, Professor of History and Strategy at the Naval War College. We discuss: - how continental vs maritime powers think and how this explains Xi & Putin's decisions -…
Dwarkesh Patel is a podcaster. The Dwarkesh Podcast ( YouTube | Spotify | Apple ) interviews intellectuals, scientists, historians, economists, and founders about their big idea. The themes of…
Here is my conversation with Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. Dario is hilarious and has fascinating takes on what these models are doing, why they scale so well, and what it will take to align them.…
Dwarkesh Patel is the creator of the Lunar Society newsletter and podcast. We talk about curiosity, talent, podcasting and research, status games, finding what to work on, standing out from the…
A few weeks ago, I sat beside Andy Matuschak to record how he reads a textbook. Even though my own job is to learn things, I was shocked with how much more intense, painstaking, and effective his…
The second half of my 7 hour conversation with Carl Shulman is out! My favorite part! And the one that had the biggest impact on my worldview. Here, Carl lays out how an AI takeover might happen: *…
I talked to Dwarkesh Patel of the Lunar Society Podcast about many topics. We talked about: Why do AI researchers and rationalists disagree about existential risk? What would happen if Robert Moses…
Last week's Long Reads was Marc Andreessen's "Why AI Will Save the World." This week we read Dwarkesh Patel's "Contra Marc Andreessen on AI." The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important…
In terms of the depth and range of topics, this episode is the best I’ve done. No part of my worldview is the same after talking with Carl Shulman. He's the most interesting intellectual you've never…
It was a tremendous honor & pleasure to interview Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb We discuss - similarities between AI progress & Manhattan Project…
For 4 hours, I tried to come up reasons for why AI might not kill us all, and Eliezer Yudkowsky explained why I was wrong. We also discuss his call to halt AI, why LLMs make alignment harder, what it…
We continue our discussion of Dwarkesh Patel's article "Contra David Deutsch on AI" compared to Brett Hall's tweet on IQ theory . This time we concentrate on criticisms of Brett Hall's theory.…
I went over to the OpenAI offices in San Fransisco to ask the Chief Scientist and cofounder of OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, about: * time to AGI * leaks and spies * what's after generative models * post…
It is said that the two greatest problems of history are: how to account for the rise of Rome, and how to account for her fall. If so, then the volcanic ashes spewed by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD -…
I flew out to Chicago to interview Brett Harrison, who is the former President of FTX US President and founder of Architect. In his first longform interview since the fall of FTX, he speak in great…
In this episode, we continue our discussion of Dwarkesh Patel's article "Contra David Deutsch on AI" compared to Brett Hall's tweet on IQ theory . This time we concentrate on criticisms of Patel's…
Dwarkesh Patel is the host of The Lunar Society podcast and writes The Lunar Society newsletter. Find Dwarkesh: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Mentioned in the show: https://www.americanmoment.org/…
Dwarkesh Patel published an article called "Contra David Deutsch on AI" . This article was actually a defense of IQ theory against the charge (often made by fans of David Deutsch) that the existence…
Dwarkesh Patel is the host of The Lunar Society podcast, where he interviews scientists, historians, economists, intellectuals, & founders about their ideas. He also writes about tech, progress,…
My podcast with the brilliant Marc Andreessen is out! We discuss: * how AI will revolutionize software * whether NFTs are useless, & whether he should be funding flying cars instead * a16z's biggest…
Garett Jones is an economist at George Mason University and the author of The Cultural Transplant , Hive Mind , and 10% Less Democracy . This episode was fun and interesting throughout! He explains:…
One of my best episodes ever. Lars Doucet is the author of Land is a Big Deal, a book about Georgism which has been praised by Vitalik Buterin, Scott Alexander, and Noah Smith. Sam Altman is the lead…
Holden Karnofsky is the co-CEO of Open Philanthropy and co-founder of GiveWell. He is also the author of one of the most interesting blogs on the internet, Cold Takes. We discuss: * Are we living in…
This was one of my favorite episodes ever. Bethany McLean was the first reporter to question Enron’s earnings, and she has written some of the best finance books out there. We discuss: * The…
Nadia Asparouhova is currently researching what the new tech elite will look like at nadia.xyz . She is also the author of Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software . We…
Perhaps the most interesting episode so far. Byrne Hobart writes at thediff.co, analyzing inflections in finance and tech. He explains: * What happened at FTX * How drugs have induced past financial…
Edward Glaeser is the chair of the Harvard department of economics, and the author of the best books and papers about cities (including Survival of the City and Triumph of the City ). He explains…
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