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Dwarkesh Podcast
Dwarkesh Patel
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27%Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x
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31%Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity
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67%Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math
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29%The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job
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29%The data black hole at the center of AI
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31%Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
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29%Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
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32%Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up
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20%Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
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30%David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
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33%Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
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25%Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat
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25%Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
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21%Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
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35%Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute
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31%The most important question nobody's asking about AI
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36%Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
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23%Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
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28%Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
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19%Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
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23%Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)
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20%Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War
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24%Ilya Sutskever — We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
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31%Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI
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32%Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise
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24%Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
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22%Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
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27%Some thoughts on the Sutton interview
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37%Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
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24%Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
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28%How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine
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23%Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel
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22%China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer
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21%Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard
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32%Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China
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21%Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history
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31%Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
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26%A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church
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22%Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber
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24%"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff
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34%Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih
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33%Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
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20%What will automated firms look like?
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26%Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months
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23%Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper
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67%AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu
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33%AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo
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35%AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton
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25%Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution
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23%Notes on China
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30%Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough
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21%Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
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53%Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)
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20%Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview)
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31%Sarah Paine — The war for India (lecture & interview)
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28%Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans
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75%Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT
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20%Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary
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31%@Asianometry & Dylan Patel — How the semiconductor industry actually works
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32%Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin
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27%David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago
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31%Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover
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22%Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan
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31%Tony Blair — Why political leaders keep failing at major change
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29%Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles
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38%Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history
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32%John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) — Reasoning, RLHF, & plan for 2027 AGI
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20%Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters
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25%Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think
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23%Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold
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23%Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave
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23%Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth
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30%Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration]
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23%Will scaling work? [Narration]
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31%Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine
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31%Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleon as startup founder
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27%Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance
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73%Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover
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20%Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) — 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures
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32%Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) — Past, present, & future of mathematics
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33%Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake
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28%Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) — The hidden pattern behind every AI breakthrough
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29%Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail
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32%Carl Shulman (Pt 2) — AI Takeover, bio & cyber attacks, detecting deception, & humanity's far future
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25%Carl Shulman (Pt 1) — Intelligence explosion, primate evolution, robot doublings, & alignment
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26%Richard Rhodes — The making of the atomic bomb
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19%Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence, SciFi, & rationality
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21%Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence
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32%Nat Friedman (Github CEO) — Reading ancient scrolls, open source, & AI
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22%Brett Harrison — FTX US former president speaks out
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29%Marc Andreessen — AI, crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, regrets, vulnerabilities, & managerial revolution
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27%Garett Jones — Immigration, national IQ, & less democracy
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27%Lars Doucet — Progress, poverty, Georgism, & why rent is too damn high
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34%Holden Karnofsky — History's most important century
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56%Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries
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27%Nadia Asparouhova — Tech elites, democracy, open source, & philanthropy
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27%Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism
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24%Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work
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29%Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?
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25%Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review
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21%Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues
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32%Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex
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26%Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry
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72%Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha
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20%Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity
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34%Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology
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22%Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics
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25%Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship
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35%Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order
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34%Sam Bankman-Fried - Crypto, Altruism, and Leadership
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27%Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection
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24%Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War
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24%Stephen Grugett (Manifold Markets Founder) - Predictions Markets & Revolutionizing Governance
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33%Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World
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20%Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science
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20%Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia
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36%Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness
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25%Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness
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26%David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes
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25%Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies
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21%David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation
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32%Sarah Fitz-Claridge - Taking Children Seriously
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20%Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress
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26%Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code
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24%Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity
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34%Scott Young - Ultralearning
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31%Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty
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23%Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods
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24%Caleb Watney - America's Innovation Engine
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28%Robin Hanson - The Long View
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25%Jason Crawford - The Roots of Progress
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24%Matjaž Leonardis - Science, Identity, and Probability
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27%Tyler Cowen - The Great Reset
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72%Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas
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