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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/adam-brown
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics
[ "This transcription was autogenerated and edited with the help of LLMs. Please be aware that there may be hallucinations or typos.", "(00:00:00) - Changing the laws of physics", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00", "Today I'm chatting with Adam Brown, who is a founder and lead of the Blueshift team, which is cracking m...
[]
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrew-roberts
Andrew Roberts - SV's Napoleon Cult, Why Hitler Lost WW2, Churchill as Applied Historian
[ "This transcript was autogenerated and then cleaned up by GPT-4. As such it may contain typos or hallucinations.", "(00:00:00) - Post WW2 conflicts", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:51", "Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Andrew Roberts, who is most recently the author of “Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare fr...
[]
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andy-matuschak
Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, & Why Books Don’t Work
[ "(00:00:52) – Skillful reading", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:52", "Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Andy Matuschak , who is a researcher, engineer, and designer working on tools for thought. In addition to this podcast we did an interesting collaboration on Andy's YouTube channel which I encourage you all t...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/austin-vernon
Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha
[ "Intro", "Dwarkesh Patel (00:00:00):", "Okay! Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Austin Vernon who writes about engineering, software, economics, and investing on the internet, though not that much else is known about him. So Austin, do you want to give us a bit of info about your background? I know tha...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/bethany-mclean
Bethany McLean - Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, Frauds, & Visionaries
[ "This transcript was autogenerated and thus may contain errors .", "Dwarkesh Patel: the rapid implosion of a company worth tens of billions of dollars. Insider dealing and romantic entanglements between sister companies, a politically generous c e o, who is well connected in Washington, the use of a company's own...
[]
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/brett-harrison
Brett Harrison - FTX US Former President & HFT Veteran Speaks Out
[ "This transcript was autogenerated and thus may contain errors.", "Dwarkesh Patel", "Okay. Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Brett Harrison, who is now the founder of Architect, which provides traders with infrastructure for accessing digital markets. Before that he was the president of FTX US, and bef...
[]
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/brian-potter
Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review
[ "Why Saudi Arabia’s Line is Insane, Unrealistic, and Never going to Exist", "Dwarkesh Patel", "Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Brian Potter, who is an engineer and the author of the excellent Construction Physics blog, where he writes about how the construction industry works and why it has been slo...
[ "https://constructionphysics.substack.com/", "https://www.neom.com/en-us/regions/theline", "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/657947826781328844/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island", "https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/model-city-monday-8122", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraj_Al_Bait", ...
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/bryan-caplan-3
Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues
[ "Dwarkesh Patel", "Today, I have the great honor of interviewing Bryan Caplan again for the third time. Bryan, thanks so much for coming on the podcast.", "Bryan Caplan", "I've got the great honor of being interviewed by you, Dwarkesh. You're one of my favorite people in the world!", "Don’t Be a Feminist", ...
[ "https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Be-Feminist-Genuine-Justice/dp/B0BD3DFMMH", "https://nav.al/schelling-point", "https://openborders.info/keyhole-solutions/", "https://www.amazon.com/Open-Borders-Science-Ethics-Immigration/dp/1250316960", "https://www.lp.org/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_infanticide...
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/carl-shulman
Carl Shulman (Pt 1) - Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment
[ "(00:01:32) - Intelligence Explosion", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:01:32", "Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Carl Shulman. Many of my former guests, and this is not an exaggeration, have told me that a lot of their biggest ideas have come directly from Carl especially when it has to do with the intelligence ex...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/carl-shulman-2
Carl Shulman (Pt 2) - AI Takeover, Bio & Cyber Attacks, Detecting Deception, & Humanity's Far Future
[ "(00:00:47) - AI takeover via cyber or bio", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:47", "So we've been talking about alignment. Suppose we fail at alignment and we have AIs that are unaligned and are becoming more and more intelligent. What does that look like? How concretely could they disempower and take over humanity?", "...
[ "https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1450:_AI-Box_Experiment", "https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/", "https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/02/1072528/geoffrey-hinton-google-why-scared-ai/", "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65886125", "https://www.bbc.com/news/w...
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/charles-mann
Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry
[ "Dwarkesh Patel", "Okay! Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Charles Mann, who is the author of three of my favorite books, including 1491: New Revelations of America before Columbus . 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created , and The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Duel...
[ "https://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059", "https://www.amazon.com/1493-Uncovering-World-Columbus-Created/dp/0307278247/ref=d_pd_sbs_sccl_2_1/131-2045401-0836407?pd_rd_w=AGLeO&content-id=amzn1.sym.3676f086-9496-4fd7-8490-77cf7f43f846&pf_rd_p=3676f086-9496-4fd7-8490-77cf7f43f...
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/daniel-yergin
Daniel Yergin – Oil Explains the Entire 20th Century
[ "00:00:00 – Beginning of the oil industry", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00", "Today I have the pleasure to chat with Daniel Yergin . He is literally the world's leading authority on energy. His book, The Prize , won the Pulitzer Prize. It's about the entire history of oil. His most recent book is The New Map: Energy,...
[ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Yergin", "https://amzn.to/3To6jz7", "https://amzn.to/4d7IylW", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Caro", "https://amzn.to/4cZ0I9a", "https://amzn.to/3TrjlM4", "https://amzn.to/4glwY9i", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Drake", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dario-amodei
Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) - Scaling, Alignment, & AI Progress
[ "Dwarkesh Patel (00:00:49 - 00:00:58):", "Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, and I'm really excited about this one.", "Dario, thank you so much for coming on the podcast.", "Dario Amodei (00:00:59 - 00:01:00):", "Thanks for having me.", "(00:01:00) - Scaling", ...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/david-deutsch
David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes
[ "Will AIs be smarter than humans?", "Dwarkesh Patel 0:05", "Okay, today I'm speaking with David Deutsch. Now, this is a conversation I've eagerly wanted to have for years. So this is very exciting for me. So first, let's talk about AI. Can you briefly explain why you anticipate that AIs will be no more fundamen...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/david-reich
David Reich - How One Small Tribe Conquered the World 70,000 Years Ago
[ "00:00:00 – Archaic and modern humans gene flow", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00", "Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with David Reich , who is a geneticist of ancient DNA at Harvard. David's work, his lab's work and his field's work, has really transformed our understanding of human history and human evolution....
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/demis-hassabis
Demis Hassabis - Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, Rogue Nations Threat
[ "Nature of intelligence", "Edited by Teddy Kim , with lots of helpful links", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:44", "Today it is a true honor to speak with Demis Hassabis , who is the CEO of DeepMind . Demis, welcome to the podcast.", "Demis Hassabis 00:00:51", "Thanks for having me.", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:52", ...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dominic-cummings
Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance
[ "(00:00:00) - One day in COVID…", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00", "Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Dominic Cummings. He was the chief advisor to Boris Johnson when he was Prime Minister and before that, he masterminded the Brexit campaign.", "Let’s start with talking about your time in Number 10 as a ch...
[ "https://dominiccummings.substack.com/", "https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-History-White-House-Memoir/dp/0063221489", "https://www.amazon.com/Now-Can-Be-Told-Manhattan/dp/0306801892", "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000066IHH?plink=RQHdp3VujoWLcHY1&pf_rd_r=XKAAA4PEMSS885MM122B&ref_=adblp13nvvxx_0_0_ti", "https:/...
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dylan-jon
Dylan Patel & Jon (Asianometry) – How the Semiconductor Industry Actually Works
[ "(00:00:00) – Xi's path to AGI", "Dwarkesh Patel", "Today, I'm chatting with Dylan Patel , who runs SemiAnalysis , and Jon , who runs the Asianometry YouTube channel.", "Dylan Patel", "Does he have a last name?", "Jon Y", "No, I do not. No, just kidding. Jon Y.", "Dylan Patel", "Why is it only one l...
[ "https://x.com/dylan522p", "https://www.semianalysis.com/", "https://www.asianometry.com/about", "https://www.youtube.com/asianometry", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping", "https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-scaling-work", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_trapping", "https://en.wikipedia...
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/edward-glaeser
Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work
[ "Mars, Terrorism, & Capitals", "Dwarkesh Patel 0:00:00", "Okay, today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Professor Edward Glaeser, who is the chair of the Harvard Department of Economics, and author of some of the best books and papers about cities. Professor Glazer, thanks for coming on The Lunar Society.",...
[ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioners%27_Plan_of_1811", "https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2017/07/29/coases-theory-of-the-firm", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrkwgEUXyTU", "https://scholar.harvard.edu/glaeser/publications/jobs-heartland-place-based-policies-21st-century-america", "https://...
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ege-tamay
AGI is Still 30 Years Away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu
[ "AGI will take another 3 decades", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00 Today, I’m chatting with Tamay Besiroglu and Ege Erdil . They were previously running Epoch AI and are now launching Mechanize, which is a company dedicated to automating all work. One of the interesting points you made recently, Tamay, is that the whole...
[ "https://tamaybesiroglu.com/", "https://twitter.com/EgeErdil2?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor", "https://epoch.ai/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hanson", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlexNet", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_tree_search", "https://www.theverg...
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/eliezer-yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality
[ "TIME article", "Dwarkesh Patel 0:00:51", "Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Eliezer Yudkowsky. Eliezer, thank you so much for coming out to the Lunar Society.", "Eliezer Yudkowsky 0:01:00", "You’re welcome.", "Dwarkesh Patel 0:01:01", "Yesterday, when we’re recording this, you had an article i...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/francois-chollet
Francois Chollet, Mike Knoop - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution
[ "(00:00:00) – The ARC benchmark", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00", "Today I have the pleasure to speak with François Chollet , who is an AI researcher at Google and creator of Keras . He’s launching a prize in collaboration with Mike Knoop , the co-founder of Zapier , whom we’ll also be talking to in a second. It’s a...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/grant-sanderson
Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) - Past, Present, & Future of Mathematics
[ "(0:00:00) - Does winning math competitions require AGI?", "Dwarkesh Patel 0:00:45", "Today I have the pleasure of interviewing Grant Sanderson of the YouTube channel, 3blue1brown . You all know who Grant is and I'm really excited about this one.", "By the time that an AI model can get gold in the Internation...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/gwern-branwen
Gwern Branwen - How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory
[ "(00:00:00) – Anonimity", "Dwarkesh Patel", "Today I’m interviewing Gwern Branwen . Gwern is an anonymous researcher and writer. He’s deeply influenced the people building AGI . He was one of the first people to see LLM scaling coming. If you’ve read his blog, you’ll know he’s one of the most interesting polyma...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/holden-karnofsky
Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important Century
[ "Dwarkesh Patel All right, today I have the pleasure of speaking with Holden Karnofsky who is the co-CEO of Open Philanthropy. In my opinion, Holden is one of the most interesting intellectuals alive. Holden, welcome to the Lunar Society.", "Holden Karnofsky", "Thanks for having me.", "The Most Important Cent...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Future Models, Spies, Microsoft, Taiwan, & Enlightenment
[ "Time to AGI", "Dwarkesh Patel", "Today I have the pleasure of interviewing Ilya Sutskever, who is the Co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI. Ilya, welcome to The Lunar Society.", "Ilya Sutskever", "Thank you, happy to be here.", "Dwarkesh Patel", "First question and no humility allowed. There are no...
[ "https://github.com/features/copilot" ]
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/jeff-dean-and-noam-shazeer
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer – 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
[ "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00", "Today I have the honor of chatting with Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer. Jeff is Google's Chief Scientist, and through his 25 years at the company, he has worked on basically the most transformative systems in modern computing: from MapReduce , BigTable , Tensorflow , AlphaChip – genuinely,...
[ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigtable", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TensorFlow", "https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/how-alphachip-transformed-computer-chip-design/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_(deep_learning_architecture)#", "https://en.w...
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/joe-carlsmith
Joe Carlsmith - Otherness and control in the age of AGI
[ "00:00:00 - Understanding the Basic Alignment Story", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00", "Today I'm chatting with Joe Carlsmith. He's a philosopher and, in my opinion, a capital-G great philosopher. You can find his essays at joecarlsmith.com .", "So we have GPT-4, and it doesn't seem like a paperclipper thing . It u...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/john-schulman
John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) - Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI
[ "Thanks to Graham Bessellieu for editing this podcast, and to Teddy Kim for editing and annotating this transcript with lots of helpful links.", "(00:00:00) - Pre-training, post-training, and future capabilities", "Dwarkesh Patel", "Today I have the pleasure to speak with John Schulman , who is one of the co-...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/joseph-henrich
Joseph Henrich – Why Humans Survived and Smarter Species Didn't
[ "Humans didn’t succeed because of raw IQ", "Dwarkesh Patel - 00:00:00", "Today, I have the pleasure of chatting with Joseph Henrich , who is a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and an author of two of my favorite books, The Weirdest People in the World and before that, The Secret of ...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/jung-chang
Jung Chang - Living through Cultural Revolution and the Crimes of Mao
[ "This transcript was autogenerated and then cleaned up by GPT-4. As such it may contain typos or hallucinations.", "(00:00:42) - Growing up during Cultural Revolution", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:42", "Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Jung Chang. Her first book, 'Wild Swans', has sold over 15 million cop...
[]
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ken-rogoff
“China’s digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin.” — Ken Rogoff
[ "00:00:00 – China is stagnating", "Dwarkesh Patel 0:00:00 Today I’m speaking with Ken Rogoff , who is a professor at Harvard, recent author of Our Dollar, Your Problem , and former Chief Economist at the IMF .", "Ken, thanks so much for coming on the podcast.", "Kenneth Rogoff 00:00:12 Thanks so much for havi...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/kenneth-jackson
Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?
[ "0:00:00 Preview + Intro", "Kenneth Jackson 0:00:00", "Robert Moses represented a past when we wanted to build bridges and superhighways. We're not building superhighways now. We're not building vast bridges like Moses built all the time. Essentially all the big roads, all the bridges, all the parks, the United...
[ "https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Moses-Modern-City-Transformation/dp/0393732436", "https://www.amazon.com/Power-Broker-Robert-Moses-Fall/dp/1847923658", "https://www.nber.org/digest/apr19/new-estimates-benefits-us-highway-construction", "https://www.wsj.com/articles/homeownership-for-all-is-a-dying-dream-kennet...
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/kyle-harper
Why Rome Actually Fell: Plagues, Slavery, & Ice Age — Kyle Harper
[ "Plague's impact on Rome's collapse", "Dwarkesh", "Today, I have the pleasure of chatting with Kyle Harper , who is a professor and provost emeritus at the University of Oklahoma, and the author of some really interesting books: The Fate of Rome , Plagues Upon the Earth , Slavery in the Late Roman World , and a...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/lars-doucet
Lars Doucet - Progress, Poverty, Georgism, & Why Rent is Too Damn High
[ "Dwarkesh Patel - 00:00:39:", "Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Lars Doucet , who developed the highly acclaimed game Defender's Quest and part two is coming out next year, but now he's working on a new startup. But the reason we're talking is that he wrote a review of Henry George's Progress and Povert...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/leopold-aschenbrenner
Leopold Aschenbrenner - China/US Super Intelligence Race, 2027 AGI, & The Return of History
[ "Edited by Teddy Kim .", "(00:00:00) – The trillion-dollar cluster and unhobbling", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00", "Today I’m chatting with my friend Leopold Aschenbrenner . He grew up in Germany and graduated as valedictorian of Columbia when he was 19. After that, he had a very interesting gap year which we’ll ...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/marc-andreessen
Marc Andreessen - AI, Crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, Regrets, Vulnerabilities, & Managerial Revolution
[ "Dwarkesh Patel 0:00", "Today, I have the great pleasure of speaking with Marc Andreessen, which means for the first time on the podcast, the guest’s and the host’s playback speed will actually match. Marc, welcome to The Lunar Society.", "Marc Andreessen 00:13", "Good morning. And thank you for having me. It...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/mark-zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus
[ "Thanks to Graham Bessellieu for editing this podcast. Transcript with lots of helpful links by Teddy Kim .", "00:00:00 - Llama 3", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00", "Mark, welcome to the podcast.", "Mark Zuckerberg 0:00:01", "Thanks for having me. Big fan of your podcast.", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:03", "Thank...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-2
Mark Zuckerberg — Meta's AGI Plan
[ "How Llama 4 compares to other models", "Dwarkesh Patel", "Mark, thanks for coming on the podcast again.", "Mark Zuckerberg", "Yeah, happy to do it. Good to see you.", "Dwarkesh Patel", "You too. Last time you were here, you had launched Llama 3 . Now you've launched Llama 4 .", "Mark Zuckerberg", "...
[ "https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/mark-zuckerberg", "https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimodal_learning", "https://lmarena.ai/?leaderboard", "https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/flash/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasoning_language_model",...
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/nat-friedman
Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI
[ "Dwarkesh Patel", "Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Nat Friedman, who was the CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021. Before that, he started and sold two companies, Ximian and Xamarin. And he is also the founder of AI Grant and California YIMBY. And most recently, he is the organizer and founder of the Scroll...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/patrick-collison
Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) - Craft, Beauty, & The Future of Payments
[ "Advice for 20-30 year olds", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00", "Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Patrick Collison , CEO of Stripe . Patrick, first question. You have an excellent compilation of advice on your blog for people 10 to 20 . You say there, that once you turn 35, you'll write some for people in th...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/patrick-mckenzie
Patrick McKenzie - How a Discord Server Saved Thousands of Lives
[ "00:00:00 – Why hackers on Discord had to save thousands of lives", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00", "Today, I'm chatting with Patrick McKenzie . He is known for many things on the Internet. He's known as patio11 . Most recently he ran VaccinateCA , which probably saved a high four-figure number of lives during COVID...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/paul-christiano
Paul Christiano - Preventing an AI Takeover
[ "This transcript was autogenerated and thus may contain errors. It will be replaced with a human-generated transcript with links in about a week.", "(00:00:00) - What do we want post-AGI world to look like?", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00", "Okay, today I have the pleasure of interviewing Paul Christiano, who is t...
[]
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/richard-rhodes
Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
[ "(0:00:00) - Oppenheimer movie", "Dwarkesh Patel 0:00:51", "Today I have the great honor of interviewing Richard Rhodes, who is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb , and most recently, the author of Energy, A Human History . I'm really excited about this one. Let's jump in at a cu...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sarah-paine
Sarah C. M. Paine - WW2, Taiwan, Ukraine, & Maritime vs Continental Powers
[ "Grand strategy", "Dwarkesh Patel 0:00:40", "Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Sarah Paine . She is a professor of strategy and policy at the Naval War College and she has written some of the best military history I've ever read. We're going to get into history, strategy, and all kinds of interesting t...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sarah-paine-china
Sarah Paine Episode 3: How Mao Conquered China
[ "Sarah Paine 00:00:00", "What I'm about to say are my ideas, they don't necessarily represent those of the US government, the US Navy Department, the US Department of Defense, or the Naval War College, you got that clear? Complain to me if you got problems.", "All right, I'm going to talk about Mao. He’s an inc...
[ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_R._Schram", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Corbett", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_(Taiwan)", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_script_(East_Asia)", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_commissar", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_...
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sarah-paine-india
Sarah Paine Episode 1: The War For India (Lecture & Interview)
[ "Sarah Paine 00:00 I need to start with a disclaimer, because I work for the US Government, and they require you to do a disclaimer. So: the ideas that you're about to hear are my ideas. They don't necessarily represent those of the US Government, the US Navy Department, the US Department of Defense, let alone the ...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sarah-paine-japan
Sarah Paine Episode 2: Why Japan Lost (Lecture & Interview)
[ "Sarah Paine 0:00:00", "Before I get going, I've got to make a disclaimer. You can see it written up there: What I'm saying are my ideas. They don't necessarily represent the US government, the US Navy department, the US Department of Defense, let alone where I work, the Naval War College. You got it? This is jus...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/satya-nadella
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough
[ "0:00:00 - Intro", "Dwarkesh Patel", "Satya, thank you so much for coming on the podcast.", "In a second, we're going to get to the two breakthroughs that Microsoft has just made, and congratulations, same day in Nature: the Majorana zero chip, which we have in front of us right here, and also the world human...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sbf
Sam Bankman-Fried - Crypto, Altruism, and Leadership
[ "Dwarkesh Patel 0:09", "Today on The Lunar Science Society Podcast, I have the pleasure of interviewing Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX . Thanks for coming on The Lunar Society.", "Sam Bankman-Fried 0:17", "Thanks for having me.", "How inefficient is the world?", "Dwarkesh Patel 0:18", "Alright, first que...
[ "https://ftx.us/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=NPD-FTX-GGL-Brand&adgroupid=128713096283&utm_content=564159064776&utm_term=ftx&utm_matchtype=p&gclid=CjwKCAjw_ISWBhBkEiwAdqxb9mTt_TFw6PjEovgY5OpgI1_FOeTLQE73_alS_odmpWEQPBxyGnzJ-BoCV3MQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds", "https://www.alameda-research.com/", "htt...
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/scaling-ama
AMA ft. Sholto & Trenton: New Book, Career Advice Given AGI, How I'd Start From Scratch
[ "Book launch announcement", "Dwarkesh Patel", "Today, this is going to be an Ask Me Anything episode. I'm joined by my friends, Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas . You guys do some AI stuff, right?", "Trenton Bricken", "Yeah.", "Sholto Douglas", "We dabble.", "Dwarkesh Patel", "They're researchers ...
[ "https://www.trentonbricken.com/about/", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sholto", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic", "https://press.stripe.com/scaling", "https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/jared-kaplan/", "https://press.stripe.com/", "https://apps.ankiweb.net/", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlkk3g...
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/scott-daniel
2027 Intelligence Explosion: Month-by-Month Model — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo
[ "AI 2027", "Dwarkesh Patel", "Today I have the great pleasure of chatting with Scott Alexander and Daniel Kokotajlo . Scott is of course the author of the blog Slate Star Codex , Astral Codex 10 now. It’s actually been, as you know, a big bucket list item of mine to get you on the podcast. So this is all the fi...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/shane-legg
Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) - 2028 AGI, New Architectures, Aligning Superhuman Models
[ "(0:00:00) - Measuring AGI Progress", "Dwarkesh Patel 0:00:00", "Today I have the pleasure of interviewing Shane Legg , who is the founder and the Chief AGI scientist of Google DeepMind. Shane, welcome to the podcast.", "Shane Legg 0:00:13", "Thank you. It's a pleasure being here.", "Dwarkesh Patel 0:00:1...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sholto-douglas-trenton-bricken
Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's Mind
[ "Edited by Teddy Kim , with lots of helpful links", "00:00:00 - Long contexts", "Dwarkesh Patel 0:00:00", "Okay, today I have the pleasure to talk with two of my good friends, Sholto and Trenton .", "Noam Brown , who wrote the Diplomacy paper , said this about Sholto: “he's only been in the field for 1.5 ye...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sholto-trenton-2
How Does Claude 4 Think? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
[ "00:00:00 – How far can RL scale?", "Dwarkesh Patel", "Okay. I'm joined again by my friends, Sholto Bricken... Wait, fuck. Did I do this last time ?", "Sholto Douglas", "You did the same thing.", "Trenton Bricken", "No, no, you named us differently, but we didn't have Sholto Bricken and Trenton Douglas....
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/steve-hsu
Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity
[ "Dwarkesh Patel 0:00", "Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Steve Hsu. Steve, thanks for coming on the podcast. I'm excited about this.", "Steve Hsu 0:04", "Hey, it's my pleasure! I'm excited too and I just want to say I've listened to some of your earlier interviews and thought you were very insightfu...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/tony-blair
Tony Blair - Life of a PM, The Deep State, Lee Kuan Yew, & AI's 1914 Moment
[ "00:00:00 – A prime minister’s constraints", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00", "Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Tony Blair who was Prime Minister of the UK from 1997 to 2007 and now leads the Tony Blair Institute , which advises dozens of governments on improving governance, reform, and adding technology.",...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/tyler-cowen-2
Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex
[ "Did Caplan Change On Education?", "Tyler Cowen", "Ask Bryan about early and late Caplan. In which ways are they not consistent? That's a kind of friendly jab.", "Dwarkesh Patel", "Okay, interesting.", "Tyler Cowen", "Garrett Jones has tweeted about this in the past. In The Myth of the Rational Voter , ...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/tyler-cowen-3
Tyler Cowen - Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, Animal Spirits, Anarchy, & Growth
[ "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00", "This is a fun book to read because you mentioned in there what the original sources to read are. It’s like the Harold Bloom of economics, right?", "Tyler Cowen 00:00:10", "It’s a book written for smart people.", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:13", "Okay, so let’s just jump into it. The ...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/tyler-cowen-4
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans
[ "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:07", "Tyler, welcome.", "Tyler Cowen 00:00:08", "Dwarkesh, great to be chatting with you.", "Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:11", "Why won't we have explosive economic growth, 20% plus, because of AI?", "Tyler Cowen 00:00:17", "It's very hard to get explosive economic growth for any reason,...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/victor-shih
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih
[ "00:00:00 – Is China more decentralized than the US?", "Dwarkesh Patel Today I'm talking with Victor Shih , who is the director of the 21st Century China Center at UC San Diego. China is obviously one of the most important economic and geopolitical issues of our time, doubly so if you believe what I believe about...
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https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/will-macaskill
Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology
[ "Dwarkesh Patel 0:06", "Okay, today I have the pleasure of interviewing William MacAskill . Will is one of the founders of the Effective Altruism movement, and most recently, the author of the upcoming book, What We Owe The Future . Will, thanks for coming on the podcast.", "Will MacAskill 0:20", "Thanks so m...
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