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Dwarkesh Podcast
Dwarkesh Patel
50 episodes available · plays inline · no app required
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8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning
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Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x
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Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity
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Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math
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The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job
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The data black hole at the center of AI
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Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
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Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
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Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up
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Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
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David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
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Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
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Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat
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Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
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Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
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Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute
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The most important question nobody's asking about AI
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Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
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Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
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Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
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Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
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Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)
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Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War
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Ilya Sutskever — We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
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Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI
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Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise
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Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
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Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
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Some thoughts on the Sutton interview
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Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
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Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
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How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine
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Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel
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China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer
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Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard
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Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China
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Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history
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Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
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A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church
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Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber
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"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff
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Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih
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Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
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What will automated firms look like?
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Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months
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Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper
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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 & Daniel Kokotajlo
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AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton
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Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution
