Dwarkesh Podcast

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Dwarkesh Podcast

by Dwarkesh Patel

Deeply researched interviews www.dwarkesh.com

101 episodes

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1

Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute

2:30:44 Mar 13, 2026

2

The Department of War is making a huge mistake

24:38 Mar 11, 2026

3

Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer

2:02:19 Mar 6, 2026

4

Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"

2:22:20 Feb 13, 2026

5

Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

2:49:45 Feb 5, 2026

6

Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain

1:49:53 Dec 30, 2025

7

Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)

12:28 Dec 23, 2025

8

Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War

1:54:55 Dec 19, 2025

9

Ilya Sutskever — We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research

1:36:03 Nov 25, 2025

10

Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI

1:27:47 Nov 12, 2025

11

Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise

1:30:36 Oct 31, 2025

12

Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away

2:25:19 Oct 17, 2025

13

Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable

1:20:08 Oct 10, 2025

14

Some thoughts on the Sutton interview

11:39 Oct 4, 2025

15

Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end

1:06:22 Sep 26, 2025

16

Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine

1:28:28 Sep 12, 2025

17

How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine

1:35:17 Sep 5, 2025

18

Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel

1:44:40 Aug 21, 2025

19

China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer

1:08:22 Aug 15, 2025

20

Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard

1:08:05 Aug 7, 2025

21

Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China

1:55:37 Jul 25, 2025

22

Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history

2:12:41 Jul 10, 2025

23

Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner

14:01 Jul 3, 2025

24

A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church

1:33:45 Jun 26, 2025

25

Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber

2:26:43 Jun 19, 2025

26

"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff

1:36:04 Jun 12, 2025

27

Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner

14:01 Jun 2, 2025

28

Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

1:29:09 May 29, 2025

29

Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken

2:24:01 May 22, 2025

30

What will automated firms look like?

10:18 May 1, 2025

31

Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months

1:15:03 Apr 29, 2025

32

Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper

1:23:28 Apr 24, 2025

33

AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

3:08:28 Apr 17, 2025

34

AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo

3:04:26 Apr 3, 2025

35

AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton

49:33 Mar 25, 2025

36

Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution

1:52:59 Mar 12, 2025

37

Notes on China

19:31 Mar 5, 2025

38

Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough

1:16:10 Feb 19, 2025

39

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

2:14:43 Feb 12, 2025

40

Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)

1:48:14 Jan 30, 2025

41

Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview)

2:08:13 Jan 23, 2025

42

Sarah Paine — The war for India (lecture & interview)

2:12:58 Jan 16, 2025

43

Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

59:45 Jan 9, 2025

44

I'm hiring!

9:19 Dec 27, 2024

45

Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT

2:43:37 Dec 26, 2024

46

Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary

1:36:43 Nov 13, 2024

47

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

2:09:57 Oct 2, 2024

48

Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin

1:27:37 Sep 18, 2024

49

David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago

1:56:06 Aug 29, 2024

50

Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover

2:30:35 Aug 22, 2024

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