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Dwarkesh Patel

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What will computer chips look like in 2045? 2026-10-22 · 69m
Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? 2026-10-01 · 97m
Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement 2026-09-17 · 80m
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement 2026-09-11 · 97m
Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face 2026-09-01 · 141m
The rise and fall of agent civilizations 2026-08-31 · 25m
Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 2026-08-25 · 77m
Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? 2026-08-11 · 133m
8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning 2026-08-07 · 9m
Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x 2026-08-03 · 11m
Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity 2026-07-10 · 98m
Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math 2026-06-30 · 94m
The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job 2026-06-26 · 20m
The data black hole at the center of AI 2026-06-19 · 12m
Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time 2026-06-16 · 128m
Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI? 2026-06-04 · 76m
Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up 2026-05-22 · 81m
Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch 2026-05-15 · 157m
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution 2026-05-08 · 133m
Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served 2026-04-29 · 134m
Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat 2026-04-15 · 103m
Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses 2026-04-07 · 123m
Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery 2026-03-20 · 84m
Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute 2026-03-13 · 151m
The most important question nobody's asking about AI 2026-03-11 · 25m
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer 2026-03-06 · 122m
Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential" 2026-02-13 · 142m
Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space” 2026-02-05 · 170m
Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain 2025-12-30 · 110m
Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025) 2025-12-23 · 12m
Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War 2025-12-19 · 115m
Ilya Sutskever — We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research 2025-11-25 · 96m
Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI 2025-11-12 · 88m
Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise 2025-10-31 · 91m
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away 2025-10-17 · 145m
Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable 2025-10-10 · 80m
Some thoughts on the Sutton interview 2025-10-04 · 12m
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end 2025-09-26 · 66m
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine 2025-09-12 · 88m
How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine 2025-09-05 · 95m
Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel 2025-08-21 · 105m
China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer 2025-08-15 · 68m
Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard 2025-08-07 · 68m
Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China 2025-07-25 · 116m
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history 2025-07-10 · 133m
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner 2025-07-03 · 14m
A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church 2025-06-26 · 94m
Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber 2025-06-19 · 147m
"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff 2025-06-12 · 96m
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner 2025-06-02 · 14m
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih 2025-05-29 · 89m
Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken 2025-05-22 · 144m
What will automated firms look like? 2025-05-01 · 10m
Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months 2025-04-29 · 75m
Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper 2025-04-24 · 83m
AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu 2025-04-17 · 188m
AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo 2025-04-03 · 184m
AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton 2025-03-25 · 50m
Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution 2025-03-12 · 113m
Notes on China 2025-03-05 · 20m
Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough 2025-02-19 · 76m
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI 2025-02-12 · 135m
Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview) 2025-01-30 · 108m
Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview) 2025-01-23 · 128m
Sarah Paine — The war for India (lecture & interview) 2025-01-16 · 133m
Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans 2025-01-09 · 60m
I'm hiring! 2024-12-27 · 9m
Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT 2024-12-26 · 164m
Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary 2024-11-13 · 97m
@Asianometry & Dylan Patel — How the semiconductor industry actually works 2024-10-02 · 130m
Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin 2024-09-18 · 88m
David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago 2024-08-29 · 116m
Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover 2024-08-22 · 151m
Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan 2024-07-24 · 122m
Tony Blair — Why political leaders keep failing at major change 2024-06-26 · 53m
Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles 2024-06-11 · 94m
Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history 2024-06-04 · 271m
John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) — Reasoning, RLHF, & plan for 2027 AGI 2024-05-15 · 95m
Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters 2024-04-18 · 78m
Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think 2024-03-28 · 192m
Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold 2024-02-28 · 62m
Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave 2024-02-21 · 115m
Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth 2024-01-31 · 102m
Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration] 2024-01-23 · 37m
Will scaling work? [Narration] 2024-01-19 · 26m
Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine 2023-11-29 · 91m
Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleon as startup founder 2023-11-22 · 79m
Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance 2023-11-15 · 154m
Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover 2023-10-31 · 187m
Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) — 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures 2023-10-26 · 44m
Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) — Past, present, & future of mathematics 2023-10-12 · 91m
Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake 2023-10-04 · 145m
George Hotz vs Eliezer Yudkowsky AI Safety Debate 2023-08-17 · 88m
Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) — The hidden pattern behind every AI breakthrough 2023-08-08 · 119m
Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail 2023-07-12 · 143m
Carl Shulman (Pt 2) — AI Takeover, bio & cyber attacks, detecting deception, & humanity's far future 2023-06-26 · 187m
Carl Shulman (Pt 1) — Intelligence explosion, primate evolution, robot doublings, & alignment 2023-06-14 · 164m
Richard Rhodes — The making of the atomic bomb 2023-05-23 · 158m
Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence, SciFi, & rationality 2023-04-06 · 243m
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence 2023-03-27 · 48m
Nat Friedman (Github CEO) — Reading ancient scrolls, open source, & AI 2023-03-22 · 98m
Brett Harrison — FTX US former president speaks out 2023-03-13 · 158m
Marc Andreessen — AI, crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, regrets, vulnerabilities, & managerial revolution 2023-02-01 · 80m
Garett Jones — Immigration, national IQ, & less democracy 2023-01-24 · 74m
Lars Doucet — Progress, poverty, Georgism, & why rent is too damn high 2023-01-09 · 100m
Holden Karnofsky — History's most important century 2023-01-03 · 116m
Aarthi & Sriram - Twitter, 10x Engineers, & Marriage 2022-12-29 · 81m
Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries 2022-12-21 · 86m
Nadia Asparouhova — Tech elites, democracy, open source, & philanthropy 2022-12-15 · 82m
Aella - Sex, Psychedelics, & Enlightenment 2022-12-12 · 77m
Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism 2022-12-01 · 90m
Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work 2022-11-28 · 57m
Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York? 2022-11-08 · 93m
Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review 2022-10-27 · 146m
Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues 2022-10-20 · 125m
Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex 2022-09-28 · 95m
Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Sex 2022-09-28 · 95m
Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry 2022-09-14 · 91m
Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha 2022-09-08 · 144m
Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity 2022-08-23 · 141m
Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology 2022-08-09 · 56m
Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics 2022-08-03 · 91m
Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship 2022-07-27 · 140m
34: Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology 2022-07-26 · 56m
Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order 2022-07-13 · 83m
Sam Bankman-Fried - Crypto, Altruism, and Leadership 2022-07-05 · 45m
Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection 2022-06-23 · 64m
Luke Burgis - Mimesis, Scapegoats, and Revolutions 2022-05-24 · 57m
Visakan Veerasamy - Singapore, Talent, & History 2022-05-18 · 109m
Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War 2022-05-11 · 55m
Stephen Grugett (Manifold Markets Founder) - Predictions Markets & Revolutionizing Governance 2022-05-05 · 51m
Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World 2022-04-27 · 99m
26: Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World 2022-04-27 · 99m
25: Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science 2022-04-21 · 63m
Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science 2022-04-20 · 63m
Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia 2022-04-16 · 68m
Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness 2022-04-12 · 64m
Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness 2022-02-24 · 62m
David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes 2022-01-31 · 84m
Samo Burja - Founders, Markets, & Collapse 2022-01-10 · 64m
Discussing Where's My Flying Car w/ Rohit Krishnan 2022-01-03 · 58m
Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies 2021-10-05 · 72m
Roger's Bacon - Using Cults to Power Science 2021-09-28 · 131m
David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation 2021-08-09 · 84m
Sarah Fitz-Claridge - Taking Children Seriously 2021-06-04 · 58m
Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress 2021-05-28 · 97m
Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code 2020-11-28 · 46m
Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity 2020-11-20 · 87m
Scott Young - Ultralearning 2020-11-16 · 99m
Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty 2020-10-28 · 112m
Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods 2020-10-19 · 86m
Caleb Watney - America's Innovation Engine 2020-09-04 · 55m
Robin Hanson - The Long View 2020-08-31 · 100m
Jason Crawford - The Roots of Progress 2020-08-25 · 49m
Matjaž Leonardis - Science, Identity, and Probability 2020-08-22 · 35m
Tyler Cowen - The Great Reset 2020-07-10 · 47m
Paul Frazee (Creator of BeakerBrowser) - Building the Future of the Web 2020-06-12 · 54m
Charlie Jungheim (aka Hermes of Reason) - Reason and Emotion 2020-06-09 · 89m
Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas 2020-05-22 · 60m
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