Dwarkesh Podcast

124 Episodes

1. @Asianometry & Dylan Patel — How the semiconductor industry actually works

   Published: 10/2/2024
2. Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin

   Published: 9/18/2024
3. David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago

   Published: 8/29/2024
4. Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover

   Published: 8/22/2024
5. Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan

   Published: 7/24/2024
6. Tony Blair — Why political leaders keep failing at major change

   Published: 6/26/2024
7. Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles

   Published: 6/11/2024
8. Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history

   Published: 6/4/2024
9. John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) — Reasoning, RLHF, & plan for 2027 AGI

   Published: 5/15/2024
10. Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters

    Published: 4/18/2024
11. Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think

    Published: 3/28/2024
12. Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold

    Published: 2/28/2024
13. Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave

    Published: 2/21/2024
14. Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth

    Published: 1/31/2024
15. Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration]

    Published: 1/23/2024
16. Will scaling work? [Narration]

    Published: 1/19/2024
17. Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine

    Published: 11/29/2023
18. Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleon as startup founder

    Published: 11/22/2023
19. Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance

    Published: 11/15/2023
20. Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover

    Published: 10/31/2023