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
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
Sep 12, 2025
How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine
Sep 05, 2025
Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel
Aug 21, 2025
China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer
Aug 15, 2025
Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard
Aug 07, 2025
Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China
Jul 25, 2025
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history
Jul 10, 2025
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
Jul 03, 2025
A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church
Jun 26, 2025
Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber
Jun 19, 2025
"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff
Jun 12, 2025
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih
May 29, 2025
Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
May 22, 2025
What will automated firms look like?
May 01, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months
Apr 29, 2025
Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper
Apr 24, 2025
AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu
Apr 17, 2025
AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo
Apr 03, 2025
AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton
Mar 25, 2025
Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution
Mar 12, 2025
Notes on China
Mar 05, 2025
Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough
Feb 19, 2025
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
Feb 12, 2025
Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)
Jan 30, 2025
Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview)
Jan 23, 2025
Sarah Paine — The war for India (lecture & interview)
Jan 16, 2025
Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans
Jan 09, 2025
Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT
Dec 26, 2024
Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary
Nov 13, 2024
@Asianometry & Dylan Patel — How the semiconductor industry actually works
Oct 02, 2024
Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin
Sep 18, 2024
David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago
Aug 29, 2024
Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover
Aug 22, 2024
Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan
Jul 24, 2024
Tony Blair — Why political leaders keep failing at major change
Jun 26, 2024
Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles
Jun 11, 2024
Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history
Jun 04, 2024
John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) — Reasoning, RLHF, & plan for 2027 AGI
May 15, 2024
Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters
Apr 18, 2024
Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think
Mar 28, 2024
Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold
Feb 28, 2024
Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave
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 (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine
Nov 29, 2023
Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleon as startup founder
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, superhuman alignment, new architectures
Oct 26, 2023
Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) — Past, present, & future of mathematics
Oct 12, 2023
Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake
Oct 04, 2023
Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) — The hidden pattern behind every AI breakthrough
Aug 08, 2023
Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail
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 — The making of the atomic bomb
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) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence
Mar 27, 2023
Nat Friedman (Github CEO) — Reading ancient scrolls, open source, & AI
Mar 22, 2023
Brett Harrison — FTX US former president 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 — History's 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