Dwarkesh Podcast

By Dwarkesh Patel

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Kenji
 Oct 31, 2023
like if lex fridman was actually smart and asked good questions.

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Deeply researched interviews

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Episode Date
Gwern Branwen - How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory
Nov 13, 2024
Dylan Patel & Jon (Asianometry) – How the Semiconductor Industry Actually Works
Oct 02, 2024
Daniel Yergin – Oil Explains the Entire 20th Century
Sep 18, 2024
David Reich - How One Small Tribe Conquered the World 70,000 Years Ago
Aug 29, 2024
Joe Carlsmith - Otherness and control in the age of AGI
Aug 22, 2024
Patrick McKenzie - How a Discord Server Saved Thousands of Lives
Jul 24, 2024
Tony Blair - Life of a PM, The Deep State, Lee Kuan Yew, & AI's 1914 Moment
Jun 26, 2024
Francois Chollet, Mike Knoop - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution
Jun 11, 2024
Leopold Aschenbrenner - China/US Super Intelligence Race, 2027 AGI, & The Return of History
Jun 04, 2024
John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) - Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI
May 15, 2024
Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus
Apr 18, 2024
Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's Mind
Mar 28, 2024
Demis Hassabis - Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, Rogue Nations Threat
Feb 28, 2024
Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) - Craft, Beauty, & The Future of Payments
Feb 21, 2024
Tyler Cowen - Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, Animal Spirits, Anarchy, & Growth
Jan 31, 2024
Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration]
Jan 23, 2024
Will scaling work? [Narration]
Jan 19, 2024
Jung Chang - Living through Cultural Revolution and the Crimes of Mao
Nov 29, 2023
Andrew Roberts - SV's Napoleon Cult, Why Hitler Lost WW2, Churchill as Applied Historian
Nov 22, 2023
Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance
Nov 15, 2023
Paul Christiano - Preventing an AI Takeover
Oct 31, 2023
Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) - 2028 AGI, New Architectures, Aligning Superhuman Models
Oct 26, 2023
Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) - Past, Present, & Future of Mathematics
Oct 12, 2023
Sarah C. M. Paine - WW2, Taiwan, Ukraine, & Maritime vs Continental Powers
Oct 04, 2023
Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) - Scaling, Alignment, & AI Progress
Aug 08, 2023
Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, & Why Books Don’t Work
Jul 12, 2023
Carl Shulman (Pt 2) - AI Takeover, Bio & Cyber Attacks, Detecting Deception, & Humanity's Far Future
Jun 26, 2023
Carl Shulman (Pt 1) - Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment
Jun 14, 2023
Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
May 23, 2023
Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality
Apr 06, 2023
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Future Models, Spies, Microsoft, Taiwan, & Enlightenment
Mar 27, 2023
Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI
Mar 22, 2023
Brett Harrison - FTX US Former President & HFT Veteran Speaks Out
Mar 13, 2023
Marc Andreessen - AI, Crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, Regrets, Vulnerabilities, & Managerial Revolution
Feb 01, 2023
Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less Democracy
Jan 24, 2023
Lars Doucet - Progress, Poverty, Georgism, & Why Rent is Too Damn High
Jan 09, 2023
Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important Century
Jan 03, 2023
Bethany McLean - Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, Frauds, & Visionaries
Dec 21, 2022
Nadia Asparouhova - Tech Elites, Democracy, Open Source, & Philanthropy
Dec 15, 2022
Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism
Dec 01, 2022
Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work
Nov 28, 2022
Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?
Nov 08, 2022
Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review
Oct 27, 2022
Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues
Oct 20, 2022
Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex
Sep 28, 2022
Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry
Sep 14, 2022
Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha
Sep 08, 2022
Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity
Aug 23, 2022
Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology
Aug 09, 2022
Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics
Aug 03, 2022
Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship
Jul 27, 2022
Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order
Jul 13, 2022
Sam Bankman-Fried - Crypto, Altruism, and Leadership
Jul 05, 2022
Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection
Jun 23, 2022
Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War
May 11, 2022
Stephen Grugett (Manifold Markets Founder) - Predictions Markets & Revolutionizing Governance
May 05, 2022
Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World
Apr 27, 2022
Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science
Apr 20, 2022
Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia
Apr 16, 2022
Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness
Apr 12, 2022
Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness
Feb 24, 2022
David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes
Jan 31, 2022
Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies
Oct 05, 2021
David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation
Aug 09, 2021
Sarah Fitz-Claridge - Taking Children Seriously
Jun 04, 2021
Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress
May 28, 2021
Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code
Nov 28, 2020
Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity
Nov 20, 2020
Scott Young - Ultralearning
Nov 16, 2020
Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty
Oct 28, 2020
Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods
Oct 19, 2020
Caleb Watney - America's Innovation Engine
Sep 04, 2020
Robin Hanson - The Long View
Aug 31, 2020
Jason Crawford - The Roots of Progress
Aug 25, 2020
Matjaž Leonardis - Science, Identity, and Probability
Aug 22, 2020
Tyler Cowen - The Great Reset
Jul 10, 2020
Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas
May 22, 2020