Mark Zuckerberg on:- Llama 3- open sourcing towards AGI- custom silicon, synthetic data, & energy constraints on scaling- Caesar Augustus,... more

Had so much fun chatting with my good friends Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas on the podcast.No way to summarize... more

Here is my episode with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMindWe discuss:* Why scaling is an artform* Adding search, planning,... more

We discuss:* what it takes to process $1 trillion/year* how to build multi-decade APIs, companies, and relationships* what's next for... more

It was a great pleasure speaking with Tyler Cowen for the 3rd time.We discussed GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist... more

This is a narration of my blog post, Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro.You read the... more

This is a narration of my blog post, Will scaling work?. You read the full post here: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-scaling-workListen on Apple... more

A true honor to speak with Jung Chang.She is the author of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (sold 15+... more

Andrew Roberts is the world's best biographer and one of the leading historians of our time.We discussed* Churchill the applied... more

Here is my interview with Dominic Cummings on why Western governments are so dangerously broken, and how to fix them... more

Paul Christiano is the world’s leading AI safety researcher. My full episode with him is out!We discuss:- Does he regret... more

I had a lot of fun chatting with Shane Legg - Founder and Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind!We discuss:* Why... more

I had a lot of fun chatting with Grant Sanderson (who runs the excellent 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel) about:- Whether advanced... more

I learned so much from Sarah Paine, Professor of History and Strategy at the Naval War College.We discuss:- how continental... more

Here is my conversation with Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic.Dario is hilarious and has fascinating takes on what these models... more

A few weeks ago, I sat beside Andy Matuschak to record how he reads a textbook.Even though my own job... more

The second half of my 7 hour conversation with Carl Shulman is out!My favorite part! And the one that had... more

In terms of the depth and range of topics, this episode is the best I’ve done.No part of my worldview... more

It was a tremendous honor & pleasure to interview Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Making of the... more

For 4 hours, I tried to come up reasons for why AI might not kill us all, and Eliezer Yudkowsky... more

I went over to the OpenAI offices in San Fransisco to ask the Chief Scientist and cofounder of OpenAI, Ilya... more

It is said that the two greatest problems of history are: how to account for the rise of Rome, and... more

I flew out to Chicago to interview Brett Harrison, who is the former President of FTX US President and founder... more

My podcast with the brilliant Marc Andreessen is out!We discuss:* how AI will revolutionize software* whether NFTs are useless, &... more

Garett Jones is an economist at George Mason University and the author of The Cultural Transplant, Hive Mind, and 10%... more

One of my best episodes ever. Lars Doucet is the author of Land is a Big Deal, a book about... more

Holden Karnofsky is the co-CEO of Open Philanthropy and co-founder of GiveWell. He is also the author of one of... more

This was one of my favorite episodes ever.Bethany McLean was the first reporter to question Enron’s earnings, and she has... more

Nadia Asparouhova is currently researching what the new tech elite will look like at nadia.xyz. She is also the author... more

Perhaps the most interesting episode so far.Byrne Hobart writes at thediff.co, analyzing inflections in finance and tech.He explains:* What happened... more