Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake Dwarkesh Patel 2026-09-21 | Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake
Building a Space Elevator to Mine Black Holes – Adam Brown Dwarkesh Patel 2025-01-14 | Full Episode: youtube.com/watch?v=XhB3qH_TFdsTranscript: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/adam-brownApple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dwarkesh-podcast/id1516093381Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4JH4tybY1zX6e5hjCwU6gFMe on Twitter: https://x.com/dwarkesh_spAdam Brown is a founder and lead of BlueShift which is cracking maths and reasoning at Google DeepMind and a theoretical physicist at Stanford.Enjoy!
Tyler Cowen – The #1 Bottleneck to AI Progress is Humans Dwarkesh Patel 2025-01-09 | This is my fourth interview with the pre-eminent infovore Tyler Cowen – and yet I’m always hearing new stuff from him. We talked at the Progress Conference 2024 about why he thinks AI won't drive explosive economic growth, the real bottlenecks on progress, him now writing for AIs instead of humans, and the difficult relationship between being cultured and fostering growth – among many other things.Thanks to the Roots of Progress Institute (with special thanks to Jason Crawford and Heike Larson) for such a wonderful conference, and to @freethink for the videography.Roots of Progress Institute: rootsofprogress.orgSponsorsI’m grateful to Tyler for volunteering to say a few words about Jane Street. It's the first time that a guest has participated in the sponsorship. I hope you can see why Tyler and I think so highly of Jane Street. To learn more about their open roles, go to janestreet.com/dwarkeshLinksTranscript: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/tyler-cowen-4Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/3RFuS7bSpotify: open.spotify.com/episode/48EIEaESY0IGxf02pzIEIN?si=d2S1y6HUQuulAOGKVV7GhQTimestamps(00:00:00) Economic Growth and AI(00:15:45) Founder Mode and increasing variance(00:30:19) Effective Altruism and Progress Studies(00:33:53) What AI changes for Tyler(00:45:45) The slow diffusion of innovation(00:50:41) Stalin's library(00:53:07) DC vs SF vs EU
How Far Are We From An AI Einstein? - Adam Brown Dwarkesh Patel 2025-01-01 | Full Episode: youtube.com/watch?v=XhB3qH_TFdsTranscript: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/adam-brownApple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dwarkesh-podcast/id1516093381Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4JH4tybY1zX6e5hjCwU6gFMe on Twitter: https://x.com/dwarkesh_spAdam Brown is a founder and lead of BlueShift which is cracking maths and reasoning at Google DeepMind and a theoretical physicist at Stanford.Enjoy!
How Black Holes Reveal a Holographic Reality Dwarkesh Patel 2024-12-31 | Full Episode: youtube.com/watch?v=XhB3qH_TFdsTranscript: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/adam-brownApple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dwarkesh-podcast/id1516093381Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4JH4tybY1zX6e5hjCwU6gFMe on Twitter: https://x.com/dwarkesh_spAdam Brown is a founder and lead of BlueShift which is cracking maths and reasoning at Google DeepMind and a theoretical physicist at Stanford.Enjoy!
Nagasaki Was Bombed Against Direct Orders - Adam Brown Dwarkesh Patel 2024-12-29 | Full Episode: youtube.com/watch?v=XhB3qH_TFdsTranscript: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/adam-brownApple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dwarkesh-podcast/id1516093381Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4JH4tybY1zX6e5hjCwU6gFMe on Twitter: https://x.com/dwarkesh_spAdam Brown is a founder and lead of BlueShift which is cracking maths and reasoning at Google DeepMind and a theoretical physicist at Stanford.Enjoy!
Can we stop the heat death of the universe? – Adam Brown Dwarkesh Patel 2024-12-29 | Can the cosmological constant be altered in order to prevent the heat death of the universe? The full interview with physicist Adam Brown is up on my channel now!
How a Hitchhiking Physicist Saved a Trucker – Adam Brown Dwarkesh Patel 2024-12-28 | Full Episode: youtube.com/watch?v=XhB3qH_TFdsTranscript: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/adam-brownApple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dwarkesh-podcast/id1516093381Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4JH4tybY1zX6e5hjCwU6gFMe on Twitter: https://x.com/dwarkesh_spAdam Brown is a founder and lead of BlueShift which is cracking maths and reasoning at Google DeepMind and a theoretical physicist at Stanford.Enjoy!
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Adam Brown – Mining Black Holes, Space Elevators & Einstein-Level AI Dwarkesh Patel 2024-12-26 | Adam Brown is a founder and lead of BlueShift which is cracking maths and reasoning at Google DeepMind and a theoretical physicist at Stanford.We discuss: destroying the light cone with vacuum decay, holographic principle, mining black holes, & what it would take to train LLMs that can make Einstein level conceptual breakthroughs.Stupefying, fascinating, & terrifying.Enjoy!Read the transcript: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/adam-brownApple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dwarkesh-podcast/id1516093381Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4JH4tybY1zX6e5hjCwU6gFSponsors:- Deepmind, Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI, partner with Scale for high quality data to fuel post-training Publicly available data is running out - to keep developing smarter and smarter models, labs will need to rely on Scale’s data foundry, which combines subject matter experts with AI models to generate fresh data and break through the data wall. Learn more at scale.com/dwarkesh- Jane Street is looking to hire their next generation of leaders. Their deep learning team is looking for ML researchers, FPGA programmers, and CUDA programmers. Summer internships are open for just a few more weeks. If you want to stand out, take a crack at their new Kaggle competition. To learn more, go to janestreet.com/dwarkesh- This episode is brought to you by Stripe, financial infrastructure for the internet. Millions of companies from Anthropic to Amazon use Stripe to accept payments, automate financial processes and grow their revenue. Learn more at stripe.comTimestamps:(00:00:00) - Changing the laws of physics(00:26:53) - Why is our universe the way it is(00:38:22) - Making Einstein level AGI(01:01:19) - Physics stagnation and particle colliders(01:12:07) - Hitchhiking(01:29:48) - Nagasaki(01:37:07) - Adam’s career(01:44:18) - Mining black holes(02:00:30) - The holographic principle(02:24:13) - Philosophy of infinities(02:32:30) - Engineering constraints for future civilizations
The Grand Theory of Intelligence – Gwern Dwarkesh Patel 2024-11-21 | Full Episode: youtu.be/a42key59cZQTranscript: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/gwern-branwenApple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gwern-branwen-how-an-anonymous-researcher-predicted/id1516093381?i=1000676859036Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/46H5dTtYaj1L55UAy9XXaY?si=e2f5f418f3994c62Me on Twitter: twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp
How Gwern saw AI scaling coming Dwarkesh Patel 2024-11-19 | Full Episode: youtu.be/a42key59cZQTranscript: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/gwern-branwenApple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gwern-branwen-how-an-anonymous-researcher-predicted/id1516093381?i=1000676859036Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/46H5dTtYaj1L55UAy9XXaY?si=e2f5f418f3994c62Me on Twitter: twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp
Gwern - Anonymous Writer Who Predicted AI Trajectory on $12K/Year Salary Dwarkesh Patel 2024-11-13 | Gwern's blog: gwern.netGwern is a pseudonymous researcher and writer. After the episode, I convinced Gwern to create a donation page where people can help sustain what he's up to. Please go here to contribute: donate.stripe.com/6oE9DTgaf6oD0M03ccThank you to my friend Chris Painter for doing an amazing job voice acting Gwern.Sponsors:- Jane Street is looking to hire their next generation of leaders. Their deep learning team is looking for ML researchers, FPGA programmers, and CUDA programmers. Summer internships are open - if you want to stand out, take a crack at their new Kaggle competition. To learn more, go here: jane-st.co/dwarkesh- Turing provides complete post-training services for leading AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Gemini. They specialize in model evaluation, SFT, RLHF, and DPO to enhance models’ reasoning, coding, and multimodal capabilities. Learn more at turing.com/dwarkesh.- This episode is brought to you by Stripe, financial infrastructure for the internet. Millions of companies from Anthropic to Amazon use Stripe to accept payments, automate financial processes and grow their revenue. Learn more here: stripe.comTranscript: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/gwern-branwenMe on Twitter: twitter.com/dwarkesh_spSpotify: open.spotify.com/episode/46H5dTtYaj1L55UAy9XXaY?si=xVoj6euwQdmZYnyvaQ46lATimestamps:00:00:00 - Anonymity00:01:09 - Automating Steve Jobs00:04:38 - Isaac Newton's theory of progress00:06:36 - Grand theory of intelligence00:10:39 - Seeing scaling early00:21:04 - AGI Timelines00:22:54 - What to do in remaining 3 years until AGI00:26:29 - Influencing the shoggoth with writing00:30:50 - Human vs artificial intelligence00:33:52 - Rabbit holes00:38:48 - Hearing impairment00:43:00 - Wikipedia editing00:47:43 - Gwern.net00:50:20 - Counterfactual careers00:54:30 - Borges & literature01:01:32 - Gwern's intelligence and process01:11:03 - A day in the life of Gwern01:19:16 - Gwern's finances01:25:05 - The diversity of AI minds01:27:24 - GLP drugs and obesity01:31:08 - Drug experimentation01:33:40 - Parasocial relationships01:35:23 - Open rabbit holes
Lee Kuan Yews fragile legacy — Dominic Cummings Dwarkesh Patel 2024-11-01 | #leekuanyew #singapore #politics
Evidence for Pre-Ice Age lost civilizations? - David Reich Dwarkesh Patel 2024-10-25 | #history #ancient #grahamhancock
OpenAI & Microsoft are building a $10B cluster in 2025 – Dylan Patel & @Asianometry Dwarkesh Patel 2024-10-09 | Full Episode: youtu.be/pE3KKUKXcTMTranscript: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/dylan-jonApple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dylan-patel-jon-asianometry-how-the-semiconductor/id1516093381?i=1000671564456Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6q1XODE2L5bqqBwe7434S7?si=seXQ6K_LQZeAV6776H6MhQMe on Twitter: twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp
Taiwan Invasion: Timeline to Global Collapse – @Asianometry & Dylan Patel Dwarkesh Patel 2024-10-08 | Full Episode: youtu.be/pE3KKUKXcTMTranscript: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/dylan-jonApple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dylan-patel-jon-asianometry-how-the-semiconductor/id1516093381?i=1000671564456Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6q1XODE2L5bqqBwe7434S7?si=seXQ6K_LQZeAV6776H6MhQMe on Twitter: twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp
@Asianometry & Dylan Patel – Why Every Tech CEO is Making a $100B Bet on AGI Dwarkesh Patel 2024-10-02 | Dylan Patel runs Semianalysis, the leading publication and research firm on AI hardware: semianalysis.comJon Y runs @Asianometry, the world’s best YouTube channel on semiconductors and business history.Transcript: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/dylan-jonApple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dylan-patel-jon-asianometry-how-the-semiconductor/id1516093381?i=1000671564456Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6q1XODE2L5bqqBwe7434S7?si=seXQ6K_LQZeAV6776H6MhQMe on Twitter: twitter.com/dwarkesh_spSponsors:- Jane Street is looking to hire their next generation of leaders. Their deep learning team is looking for FPGA programmers, CUDA programmers, and ML researchers. To learn more about their full time roles, internship, tech podcast, and upcoming Kaggle competition, go here: jane-st.co/dwarkesh- Stripe builds financial infrastructure for the internet. Millions of companies from Anthropic to Amazon use Stripe to accept payments, automate financial processes and grow their revenue. Learn more here: stripe.comTimestamps:0:00:00 – Xi’s path to AGI0:05:05 – Liang Mong Song0:09:10 – How semiconductors get better0:12:01 – China can centralize compute0:19:35 – Export controls & sanctions0:33:36 – Huawei’s intense culture0:39:36 – Why the semiconductor industry is so stratified0:41:43 – N2 should not exist0:46:38 – Taiwan invasion hypothetical0:50:06 – Mind-boggling complexity of semiconductors0:59:58 – Chip architecture design1:05:21 – Architectures lead to different AI models? China vs. US1:10:57 – Being head of compute at an AI lab1:17:09 – Scaling costs and power demand1:37:50 – Are we financing an AI bubble?01:51:05 – Starting Asianometry and SemiAnalysis02:06:55 – Opportunities in the semiconductor stackIf you’re interested in advertising on the podcast: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/advertise
The caste system transformed Indian genetics – David Reich Dwarkesh Patel 2024-09-22 | Full Episode: youtu.be/Uj6skZIxPuITranscript: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/david-reichApple Podcasts: http://apple.co/3RFuS7b Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3APeQ3LMe on Twitter: twitter.com/dwarkesh_spIf you’re interested in advertising on the podcast: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/advertise
Oil Decided World War II – Daniel Yergin Dwarkesh Patel 2024-09-20 | Full Episode: youtu.be/sveBcfz0fHkTranscript: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/daniel-yerginApple Podcasts: http://apple.co/3RFuS7bSpotify: http://spoti.fi/3APeQ3LMe on Twitter: twitter.com/dwarkesh_spIf you’re interested in advertising on the podcast: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/advertise
WWI was a beta test for new tech – Daniel Yergin Dwarkesh Patel 2024-09-19 | Full Episode: youtube.com/watch?v=sveBcfz0fHkTranscript: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/daniel-yerginApple Podcasts: http://apple.co/3RFuS7bSpotify: http://spoti.fi/3APeQ3LMe on Twitter: twitter.com/dwarkesh_spIf you’re interested in advertising on the podcast: dwarkeshpatel.com/p/advertise
