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Dwarkesh Podcast

Dwarkesh Patel

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Episodes (139)

AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

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AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Dani...

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Apr 3, 20253:04:26pending

AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton

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Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution

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Mar 12, 20251:52:59pending

Notes on China

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Mar 5, 202519:31pending

Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough

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Feb 19, 20251:16:10pending

Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

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Feb 12, 20252:14:43pending

Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)

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Jan 30, 20251:48:14pending

Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview)

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Jan 23, 20252:08:13pending

Sarah Paine — The war for India (lecture & interview)

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Jan 16, 20252:12:58pending

Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

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Jan 9, 202559:45pending

Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT

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Dec 26, 20242:43:37pending

Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary

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Nov 13, 20241:36:43pending

@Asianometry & Dylan Patel — How the semiconductor industry actually works

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Oct 2, 20242:09:57pending

Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin

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Sep 18, 20241:27:37pending

David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago

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Aug 29, 20241:56:06pending

Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover

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Aug 22, 20242:30:35pending

Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan

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Jul 24, 20242:01:34pending

Tony Blair — Why political leaders keep failing at major change

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Jun 26, 202452:52pending

Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles

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Jun 11, 20241:33:53pending

Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return...

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Jun 4, 20244:31:18pending

John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) — Reasoning, RLHF, & plan for 2027 AGI

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May 15, 20241:35:26pending

Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters

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Apr 18, 20241:17:54pending

Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think

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Mar 28, 20243:12:21pending

Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold

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Feb 28, 20241:01:34pending

Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave

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Feb 21, 20241:54:47pending

Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth

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Jan 31, 20241:42:22pending

Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration]

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Jan 23, 202436:32pending

Will scaling work? [Narration]

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Jan 19, 202425:43pending

Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famin...

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Nov 29, 20231:31:15pending

Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleo...

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Nov 22, 20231:18:49pending

Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance

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Nov 15, 20232:34:13pending

Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover

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Oct 31, 20233:07:01pending

Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) — 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architecture...

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Oct 26, 202344:19pending

Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) — Past, present, & future of mathematics

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Oct 12, 20231:31:20pending

Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake

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Oct 4, 20232:24:33pending

Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) — The hidden pattern behind every AI breakthrough

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Aug 8, 20231:58:43pending

Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail

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Jul 12, 20232:22:40pending

Carl Shulman (Pt 2) — AI Takeover, bio & cyber attacks, detecting deception, & h...

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Jun 26, 20233:07:07pending

Carl Shulman (Pt 1) — Intelligence explosion, primate evolution, robot doublings...

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Jun 14, 20232:44:16pending

Richard Rhodes — The making of the atomic bomb

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May 23, 20232:37:36pending

Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence,...

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Apr 6, 20234:03:25pending

Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpas...

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Mar 27, 202347:41pending

Nat Friedman (Github CEO) — Reading ancient scrolls, open source, & AI

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Mar 22, 20231:38:23pending

Brett Harrison — FTX US former president speaks out

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Mar 13, 20232:37:38pending

Marc Andreessen — AI, crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, regrets, vulnerabilities, & manag...

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Feb 1, 20231:19:31pending

Garett Jones — Immigration, national IQ, & less democracy

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Jan 24, 20231:14:01pending

Lars Doucet — Progress, poverty, Georgism, & why rent is too damn high

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Jan 9, 20231:40:23pending

Holden Karnofsky — History's most important century

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Jan 3, 20231:56:10pending

Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries

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Dec 21, 20221:25:58pending