Dwarkesh Podcast

By Dwarkesh Patel

Technology

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Dwarkesh Podcast episodes:

04.18.2024
Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus
Mark Zuckerberg on: - Llama 3 - open sourcing towards AGI - custom silicon, synthetic data, & energy constraints on scaling - Caesar Augustus, intelligence explosion, bioweapons, $10b models, & much more Enjoy! Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any...
03.28.2024
Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's Mind
Had so much fun chatting with my good friends Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas on the podcast. No way to summarize it, except: This is the best context dump out there on how LLMs are trained, what capabilities they're likely...
02.28.2024
Demis Hassabis - Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, Rogue Nations Threat
Here is my episode with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind We discuss: * Why scaling is an artform * Adding search, planning, & AlphaZero type training atop LLMs * Making sure rogue nations can't steal weights * The right...
02.21.2024
Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) - Craft, Beauty, & The Future of Payments
We discuss: * what it takes to process $1 trillion/year * how to build multi-decade APIs, companies, and relationships * what's next for Stripe (increasing the GDP of the internet is quite an open ended prompt, and the Collison brothers...
01.31.2024
Tyler Cowen - Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, Animal Spirits, Anarchy, & Growth
It was a great pleasure speaking with Tyler Cowen for the 3rd time. We discussed GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter?, especially in the context of how the insights of Hayek, Keynes,...
01.23.2024
Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration]
This is a narration of my blog post, Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro. You read the full post here: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/lyndon-johnson Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on Twitter for...
01.19.2024
Will scaling work? [Narration]
This is a narration of my blog post, Will scaling work?. You read the full post here: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-scaling-work Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on Twitter for updates on future posts and episodes....
11.29.2023
Jung Chang - Living through Cultural Revolution and the Crimes of Mao
A true honor to speak with Jung Chang. She is the author of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (sold 15+ million copies worldwide) and Mao: The Unknown Story. We discuss: - what it was like growing up during the...
11.22.2023
Andrew Roberts - SV's Napoleon Cult, Why Hitler Lost WW2, Churchill as Applied Historian
Andrew Roberts is the world's best biographer and one of the leading historians of our time. We discussed * Churchill the applied historian, * Napoleon the startup founder, * why Nazi ideology cost Hitler WW2, * drones, reconnaissance, and other...
11.15.2023
Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance
Here is my interview with Dominic Cummings on why Western governments are so dangerously broken, and how to fix them before an even more catastrophic crisis. Dominic was Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister during COVID, and before that, director...
10.31.2023
Paul Christiano - Preventing an AI Takeover
Paul Christiano is the world’s leading AI safety researcher. My full episode with him is out! We discuss: - Does he regret inventing RLHF, and is alignment necessarily dual-use? - Why he has relatively modest timelines (40% by 2040, 15%...
10.26.2023
Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) - 2028 AGI, New Architectures, Aligning Superhuman Models
I had a lot of fun chatting with Shane Legg - Founder and Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind! We discuss: * Why he expects AGI around 2028 * How to align superhuman models * What new architectures needed for AGI...
10.12.2023
Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) - Past, Present, & Future of Mathematics
I had a lot of fun chatting with Grant Sanderson (who runs the excellent 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel) about: - Whether advanced math requires AGI - What careers should mathematically talented students pursue - Why Grant plans on doing a stint...
10.04.2023
Sarah C. M. Paine - WW2, Taiwan, Ukraine, & Maritime vs Continental Powers
I learned so much from Sarah Paine, Professor of History and Strategy at the Naval War College. We discuss: - how continental vs maritime powers think and how this explains Xi & Putin's decisions - how a war with China...
08.08.2023
Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) - Scaling, Alignment, & AI Progress
Here is my conversation with Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. Dario is hilarious and has fascinating takes on what these models are doing, why they scale so well, and what it will take to align them. Watch on YouTube. Listen...
07.12.2023
Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, & Why Books Don’t Work
A few weeks ago, I sat beside Andy Matuschak to record how he reads a textbook. Even though my own job is to learn things, I was shocked with how much more intense, painstaking, and effective his learning process was....
06.26.2023
Carl Shulman (Pt 2) - AI Takeover, Bio & Cyber Attacks, Detecting Deception, & Humanity's Far Future
The second half of my 7 hour conversation with Carl Shulman is out! My favorite part! And the one that had the biggest impact on my worldview. Here, Carl lays out how an AI takeover might happen: * AI can...
06.14.2023
Carl Shulman (Pt 1) - Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment
In terms of the depth and range of topics, this episode is the best I’ve done. No part of my worldview is the same after talking with Carl Shulman. He's the most interesting intellectual you've never heard of. We ended...
05.23.2023
Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
It was a tremendous honor & pleasure to interview Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb We discuss - similarities between AI progress & Manhattan Project (developing a powerful, unprecedented, & potentially apocalyptic technology...
04.06.2023
Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality
For 4 hours, I tried to come up reasons for why AI might not kill us all, and Eliezer Yudkowsky explained why I was wrong. We also discuss his call to halt AI, why LLMs make alignment harder, what it...
03.27.2023
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Future Models, Spies, Microsoft, Taiwan, & Enlightenment
I went over to the OpenAI offices in San Fransisco to ask the Chief Scientist and cofounder of OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, about: * time to AGI * leaks and spies * what's after generative models * post AGI futures *...
03.22.2023
Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI
It is said that the two greatest problems of history are: how to account for the rise of Rome, and how to account for her fall. If so, then the volcanic ashes spewed by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD -...
03.13.2023
Brett Harrison - FTX US Former President & HFT Veteran Speaks Out
I flew out to Chicago to interview Brett Harrison, who is the former President of FTX US President and founder of Architect. In his first longform interview since the fall of FTX, he speak in great detail about his entire...
02.01.2023
Marc Andreessen - AI, Crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, Regrets, Vulnerabilities, & Managerial Revolution
My podcast with the brilliant Marc Andreessen is out! We discuss: * how AI will revolutionize software * whether NFTs are useless, & whether he should be funding flying cars instead * a16z's biggest vulnerabilities * the future of fusion,...
01.24.2023
Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less Democracy
Garett Jones is an economist at George Mason University and the author of The Cultural Transplant, Hive Mind, and 10% Less Democracy. This episode was fun and interesting throughout! He explains: * Why national IQ matters * How migrants bring...
01.09.2023
Lars Doucet - Progress, Poverty, Georgism, & Why Rent is Too Damn High
One of my best episodes ever. Lars Doucet is the author of Land is a Big Deal, a book about Georgism which has been praised by Vitalik Buterin, Scott Alexander, and Noah Smith. Sam Altman is the lead investor in...
01.03.2023
Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important Century
Holden Karnofsky is the co-CEO of Open Philanthropy and co-founder of GiveWell. He is also the author of one of the most interesting blogs on the internet, Cold Takes. We discuss: * Are we living in the most important century?...
12.29.2022
Aarthi & Sriram - Twitter, 10x Engineers, & Marriage
I had fun chatting with Aarthi and Sriram. We discuss what it takes to be successful in technology, what Sriram would say if Elon tapped him to be the next CEO of Twitter, why more married couples don’t start businesses...
12.21.2022
Bethany McLean - Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, Frauds, & Visionaries
This was one of my favorite episodes ever. Bethany McLean was the first reporter to question Enron’s earnings, and she has written some of the best finance books out there. We discuss: * The astounding similarities between Enron & FTX,...
12.15.2022
Nadia Asparouhova - Tech Elites, Democracy, Open Source, & Philanthropy
Nadia Asparouhova is currently researching what the new tech elite will look like at nadia.xyz. She is also the author of Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software. We talk about how: * American philanthropy has...
12.01.2022
Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism
Perhaps the most interesting episode so far. Byrne Hobart writes at thediff.co, analyzing inflections in finance and tech. He explains: * What happened at FTX * How drugs have induced past financial bubbles * How to be long AI while...
11.28.2022
Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work
Edward Glaeser is the chair of the Harvard department of economics, and the author of the best books and papers about cities (including Survival of the City and Triumph of the City). He explains why: * Cities are resilient to...
11.08.2022
Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?
I had a fascinating discussion about Robert Moses and The Power Broker with Professor Kenneth T. Jackson. He's the pre-eminent historian on NYC and author of Robert Moses and The Modern City: The Transformation of New York. He answers: *...
10.27.2022
Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review
It was a pleasure to welcome Brian Potter on the podcast! Brian is the author of the excellent Construction Physics blog, where he discusses why the construction industry has been slow to industrialize and innovate. He explains why: Construction isn’t...
10.20.2022
Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues
It was a fantastic pleasure to welcome Bryan Caplan back for a third time on the podcast! His most recent book is Don't Be a Feminist: Essays on Genuine Justice. He explains why he thinks: - Feminists are mostly wrong,...
09.28.2022
Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex
It was my great pleasure to speak once again to Tyler Cowen. His most recent book is Talent, How to Find Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Across the World. We discuss: - how sex is more pessimistic than he is, -...
09.14.2022
Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry
Charles C. Mann is the author of three of my favorite history books: 1491. 1493, and The Wizard and the Prophet. We discuss: * why Native American civilizations collapsed and why they failed to make more technological progress * why...
09.08.2022
Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha
Austin Vernon is an engineer working on a new method for carbon capture, and he has one of the most interesting blogs on the internet, where he writes about engineering, software, economics, and investing. We discuss how energy superabundance will...
08.23.2022
Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity
Steve Hsu is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University and cofounder of the company Genomic Prediction. We go deep into the weeds on how embryo selection can make babies healthier and smarter. Watch on YouTube. Listen on...
08.09.2022
Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology
Will MacAskill is one of the founders of the Effective Altruist movement and the author of the upcoming book, What We Owe The Future. We talk about improving the future, risk of extinction & collapse, technological & moral change, problems...
08.03.2022
Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics
Joseph Carlsmith is a senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy and a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Oxford. We discuss utopia, artificial intelligence, computational power of the brain, infinite ethics, learning from the fact that you exist, perils of...
07.27.2022
Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship
Fin Moorhouse is a Research Scholar and assistant to Toby Ord at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute. He co-hosts the Hear This Idea podcast, which showcases new thinking in philosophy, the social sciences, and effective altruism. We discuss for-profit...
07.13.2022
Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order
Alexander Mikaberidze is Professor of History at Louisiana State University and the author of The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History. He explains the global ramifications of the Napoleonic Wars - from India to Egypt to America. He also talks about...
07.05.2022
Sam Bankman-Fried - Crypto, Altruism, and Leadership
I flew to the Bahamas to interview Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX! He talks about FTX’s plan to infiltrate traditional finance, giving $100m this year to AI + pandemic risk, scaling slowly + hiring A-players, and much more. Watch...
06.23.2022
Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection
Agustin Lebron began his career as a trader and researcher at Jane Street Capital, one of the largest market-making firms in the world. He currently runs the consulting firm Essilen Research, where he is dedicated to helping clients integrate modern...
05.11.2022
Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War
Ananyo Bhattacharya is the author of The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann. He is a science writer who has worked at the Economist and Nature. Before journalism, he was a medical researcher at the...
05.05.2022
Stephen Grugett (Manifold Markets Founder) - Predictions Markets & Revolutionizing Governance
Stephen Grugett is a cofounder of Manifold Markets, where anyone can create a prediction market. We discuss how prediction markets can change how countries and companies make important decisions. Manifold Markets: https://manifold.markets/ Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,...
04.27.2022
Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World
Today I talk to Pradyu Prasad (blogger and podcaster) about the book "Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan" by Herbert P. Bix. We also discuss militarization, industrial capacity, current events, and blogging. Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts,...
04.21.2022
25: Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science
Razib Khan is a writer, geneticist, and blogger with an interest in history, genetics, culture, and evolutionary psychology. Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/sh04dEtBAoE Follow Razib on Twitter: https://twitter.com/razibkhan Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Time Stamps (0:00:05) Razib's Background (0:01:34) Dysgenics of Intelligence (0:04:23) Endogamy and Genetic traits in...
04.20.2022
Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science
Razib Khan is a writer, geneticist, and blogger with an interest in history, genetics, culture, and evolutionary psychology. Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Podcast website here.Follow Razib on Twitter. Follow me on...

What's Dwarkesh Podcast about?

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Dwarkesh Podcast episodes:

Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus

Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's Mind

Demis Hassabis - Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, Rogue Nations Threat

Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) - Craft, Beauty, & The Future of Payments

Tyler Cowen - Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, Animal Spirits, Anarchy, & Growth

Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration]

Will scaling work? [Narration]

Jung Chang - Living through Cultural Revolution and the Crimes of Mao

Andrew Roberts - SV's Napoleon Cult, Why Hitler Lost WW2, Churchill as Applied Historian

Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance

Paul Christiano - Preventing an AI Takeover

Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) - 2028 AGI, New Architectures, Aligning Superhuman Models

Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) - Past, Present, & Future of Mathematics

Sarah C. M. Paine - WW2, Taiwan, Ukraine, & Maritime vs Continental Powers

Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) - Scaling, Alignment, & AI Progress

Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, & Why Books Don’t Work

Carl Shulman (Pt 2) - AI Takeover, Bio & Cyber Attacks, Detecting Deception, & Humanity's Far Future

Carl Shulman (Pt 1) - Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment

Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes

Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality

Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Future Models, Spies, Microsoft, Taiwan, & Enlightenment

Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI

Brett Harrison - FTX US Former President & HFT Veteran Speaks Out

Marc Andreessen - AI, Crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, Regrets, Vulnerabilities, & Managerial Revolution

Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less Democracy

Lars Doucet - Progress, Poverty, Georgism, & Why Rent is Too Damn High

Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important Century

Aarthi & Sriram - Twitter, 10x Engineers, & Marriage

Bethany McLean - Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, Frauds, & Visionaries

Nadia Asparouhova - Tech Elites, Democracy, Open Source, & Philanthropy

Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism

Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work

Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?

Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review

Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues

Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex

Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry

Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha

Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity

Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology

Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics

Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship

Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order

Sam Bankman-Fried - Crypto, Altruism, and Leadership

Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection

Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War

Stephen Grugett (Manifold Markets Founder) - Predictions Markets & Revolutionizing Governance

Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World

25: Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science

Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science

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