Dwarkesh Podcast

Stephen Kotkin — How Do We Explain Stalin?

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

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

Godfather of Synthetic Bio on De-Aging, De-Extinction, & Weaponized Mirror Life — George Church

China’s Manufacturing Dominance: State Directives & Ruthless Competition — Arthur Kroeber

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

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

How Does Claude 4 Think? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken

What Will Automated Firms Look Like?

Mark Zuckerberg — Meta's AGI Plan

Why Rome Actually Fell: Plagues, Slavery, & Ice Age — Kyle Harper

AGI is Still 30 Years Away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

2027 Intelligence Explosion: Month-by-Month Model — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo

AMA ft. Sholto & Trenton: New Book, Career Advice Given AGI, How I'd Start From Scratch

Joseph Henrich – Why Humans Survived and Smarter Species Didn't

Notes on China

Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

Sarah Paine Episode 3: How Mao Conquered China

Sarah Paine Episode 2: Why Japan Lost (Lecture & Interview)

Sarah Paine Episode 1: The War For India (Lecture & Interview)

Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

Gwern Branwen - How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory

Dylan Patel & Jon (Asianometry) – How the Semiconductor Industry Actually Works

Daniel Yergin – Oil Explains the Entire 20th Century

David Reich - How One Small Tribe Conquered the World 70,000 Years Ago

Joe Carlsmith - Otherness and control in the age of AGI

Patrick McKenzie - How a Discord Server Saved Thousands of Lives

Tony Blair - Life of a PM, The Deep State, Lee Kuan Yew, & AI's 1914 Moment

Francois Chollet, Mike Knoop - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution

Leopold Aschenbrenner - China/US Super Intelligence Race, 2027 AGI, & The Return of History

John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) - Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI

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