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Dwarkesh Podcast
Dwarkesh Patel
Deeply researched interviews www.dwarkesh.com
60 episodes available · plays inline · no app required
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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
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Notes on China
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Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough
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Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
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Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)
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Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview)
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Sarah Paine — The war for India (lecture & interview)
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Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans
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Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT
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Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary
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@Asianometry & Dylan Patel — How the semiconductor industry actually works
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Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin
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David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago
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Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover
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Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan
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Tony Blair — Why political leaders keep failing at major change
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Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles
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Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history
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John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) — Reasoning, RLHF, & plan for 2027 AGI
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Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters
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Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think
