Dwarkesh Podcast

TechScience

Dwarkesh Patel

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Fortnightly podcast. Next episode on Tuesday.

Deeply researched interviews

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87 episodes • 0 archived •

AMA ft. Sholto & Trenton: New Book, Career Advice Given AGI, How I'd Start From Scratch

March 25

49 mins

Joseph Henrich – Why Humans Survived and Smarter Species Didn't

March 12

1h 52m

Notes on China

March 5

19 mins

Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

February 19

1h 16m

Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer – 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

February 12

2h 14m

Sarah Paine Episode 3: How Mao Conquered China

January 30

1h 48m

Sarah Paine Episode 2: Why Japan Lost (Lecture & Interview)

January 23

2h 8m

Sarah Paine Episode 1: The War For India (Lecture & Interview)

January 16

2h 12m

Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

January 9

59 mins

Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

Dec 26, 2024

2h 43m

Gwern Branwen - How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory

Nov 13, 2024

1h 36m

Dylan Patel & Jon (Asianometry) – How the Semiconductor Industry Actually Works

Oct 2, 2024

2h 10m

Daniel Yergin – Oil Explains the Entire 20th Century

Sep 18, 2024

1h 27m

David Reich - How One Small Tribe Conquered the World 70,000 Years Ago

Aug 29, 2024

1h 56m

Joe Carlsmith - Otherness and control in the age of AGI

Aug 22, 2024

2h 30m

Patrick McKenzie - How a Discord Server Saved Thousands of Lives

Jul 24, 2024

2h 1m

Tony Blair - Life of a PM, The Deep State, Lee Kuan Yew, & AI's 1914 Moment

Jun 26, 2024

52 mins

Francois Chollet, Mike Knoop - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution

Jun 11, 2024

1h 33m

Leopold Aschenbrenner - China/US Super Intelligence Race, 2027 AGI, & The Return of History

Jun 4, 2024

4h 31m

John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) - Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI

May 15, 2024

1h 36m

Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus

Apr 18, 2024

1h 17m

Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's Mind

Mar 28, 2024

3h 12m

Demis Hassabis - Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, Rogue Nations Threat

Feb 28, 2024

1h 1m

Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) - Craft, Beauty, & The Future of Payments

Feb 21, 2024

1h 56m

Tyler Cowen - Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, Animal Spirits, Anarchy, & Growth

Jan 31, 2024

1h 42m

Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration]

Jan 23, 2024

36 mins

Will scaling work? [Narration]

Jan 19, 2024

25 mins

Jung Chang - Living through Cultural Revolution and the Crimes of Mao

Nov 29, 2023

1h 31m

Andrew Roberts - SV's Napoleon Cult, Why Hitler Lost WW2, Churchill as Applied Historian

Nov 22, 2023

1h 18m

Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance

Nov 15, 2023

2h 34m

Paul Christiano - Preventing an AI Takeover

Oct 31, 2023

3h 7m

Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) - 2028 AGI, New Architectures, Aligning Superhuman Models

Oct 26, 2023

44 mins

Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) - Past, Present, & Future of Mathematics

Oct 12, 2023

1h 31m

Sarah C. M. Paine - WW2, Taiwan, Ukraine, & Maritime vs Continental Powers

Oct 4, 2023

2h 24m

Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) - Scaling, Alignment, & AI Progress

Aug 8, 2023

1h 59m

Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, & Why Books Don’t Work

Jul 12, 2023

2h 22m

Carl Shulman (Pt 2) - AI Takeover, Bio & Cyber Attacks, Detecting Deception, & Humanity's Far Future

Jun 26, 2023

3h 9m

Carl Shulman (Pt 1) - Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment

Jun 14, 2023

2h 44m

Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes

May 23, 2023

2h 37m

Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality

Apr 6, 2023

4h 3m

Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Future Models, Spies, Microsoft, Taiwan, & Enlightenment

Mar 27, 2023

47 mins

Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI

Mar 22, 2023

1h 38m

Brett Harrison - FTX US Former President & HFT Veteran Speaks Out

Mar 13, 2023

2h 40m

Marc Andreessen - AI, Crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, Regrets, Vulnerabilities, & Managerial Revolution

Feb 1, 2023

1h 19m

Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less Democracy

Jan 24, 2023

1h 14m

Lars Doucet - Progress, Poverty, Georgism, & Why Rent is Too Damn High

Jan 9, 2023

1h 40m

Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important Century

Jan 3, 2023

1h 56m

Bethany McLean - Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, Frauds, & Visionaries

Dec 21, 2022

1h 25m

Nadia Asparouhova - Tech Elites, Democracy, Open Source, & Philanthropy

Dec 15, 2022

1h 22m

Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism

Dec 1, 2022

1h 30m

Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work

Nov 28, 2022

57 mins

Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?

Nov 8, 2022

1h 33m

Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review

Oct 27, 2022

2h 25m

Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues

Oct 20, 2022

2h 5m

Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex

Sep 28, 2022

1h 34m

Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry

Sep 14, 2022

1h 32m

Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha

Sep 8, 2022

2h 24m

Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity

Aug 23, 2022

2h 21m

Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology

Aug 9, 2022

56 mins

Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics

Aug 3, 2022

1h 31m

Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship

Jul 27, 2022

2h 19m

Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order

Jul 13, 2022

1h 23m

Sam Bankman-Fried - Crypto, Altruism, and Leadership

Jul 5, 2022

46 mins

Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection

Jun 23, 2022

1h 4m

Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War

May 11, 2022

54 mins

Stephen Grugett (Manifold Markets Founder) - Predictions Markets & Revolutionizing Governance

May 5, 2022

50 mins

Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World

Apr 27, 2022

1h 39m

Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science

Apr 20, 2022

1h 3m

Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia

Apr 16, 2022

1h 7m

Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness

Apr 12, 2022

1h 4m

Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness

Feb 24, 2022

1h 2m

David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes

Jan 31, 2022

1h 24m

Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies

Oct 5, 2021

1h 11m

David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation

Aug 9, 2021

1h 23m

Sarah Fitz-Claridge - Taking Children Seriously

Jun 4, 2021

58 mins

Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress

May 28, 2021

1h 37m

Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code

Nov 28, 2020

45 mins

Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity

Nov 20, 2020

1h 27m

Scott Young - Ultralearning

Nov 16, 2020

1h 38m

Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty

Oct 28, 2020

1h 52m

Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods

Oct 19, 2020

1h 26m

Caleb Watney - America's Innovation Engine

Sep 4, 2020

55 mins

Robin Hanson - The Long View

Aug 31, 2020

1h 40m

Jason Crawford - The Roots of Progress

Aug 25, 2020

48 mins

Matjaž Leonardis - Science, Identity, and Probability

Aug 22, 2020

34 mins

Tyler Cowen - The Great Reset

Jul 10, 2020

47 mins

Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas

May 22, 2020

57 mins

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