Dwarkesh Podcast

• David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
  2026-05-08 16:38:22
• Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
  2026-04-29 17:07:03
• Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat
  2026-04-15 15:45:23
• Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
  2026-04-07 15:49:28
• Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
  2026-03-20 16:00:55
• Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute
  2026-03-13 16:00:42
• I’m glad the Anthropic fight is happening now
  2026-03-11 18:55:20
• How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution
  2026-03-06 17:14:20
• Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
  2026-02-13 16:46:36
• Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
  2026-02-05 16:45:08
• Adam Marblestone – AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
  2025-12-30 17:07:17
• An audio version of my blog post, Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)
  2025-12-23 20:24:48
• Sarah Paine – Why Russia Lost the Cold War
  2025-12-19 17:41:19
• Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
  2025-11-25 17:04:02
• Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI
  2025-11-12 17:03:08
• Sarah Paine – How Russia sabotaged China's rise
  2025-10-31 15:01:37
• Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
  2025-10-17 16:54:33
• Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
  2025-10-10 15:29:40
• Some thoughts on the Sutton interview
  2025-10-04 17:45:00
• Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
  2025-09-26 14:48:59
• Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
  2025-09-12 15:03:02
• How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine
  2025-09-05 15:05:14
• Why evolution designed us to die fast, & how we can change that – Jacob Kimmel
  2025-08-21 16:29:18
• China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? - Casey Handmer
  2025-08-15 14:54:54
• It May Be Impossible to Outcompete Factory Farming – Lewis Bollard
  2025-08-07 15:58:01
• Sarah Paine: How Imperial Japan Defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China
  2025-07-25 17:06:52
• Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin Became the Most Powerful Dictator in History
  2025-07-10 16:11:28
• Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
  2025-07-03 21:19:05
• George Church — A Billion Years of Evolution in a Single Afternoon
  2025-06-26 15:55:45
• China’s Manufacturing Dominance: State Directives & Ruthless Competition — Arthur Kroeber
  2025-06-19 16:03:16
• “China’s digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin.” — Ken Rogoff
  2025-06-12 16:32:58
• Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih
  2025-05-29 15:47:29
• How Does Claude 4 Think? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
  2025-05-22 20:53:36
• The Last Human CEO
  2025-05-01 23:00:27
• Mark Zuckerberg – Llama 4, DeepSeek, Trump, AI Friends, & Race to AGI
  2025-04-29 15:46:54
• Mark Zuckerberg – Meta's AGI Plan
  2025-04-29 15:46:54
• Why Rome Actually Fell: Plagues, Slavery, & Ice Age — Kyle Harper
  2025-04-24 15:53:57
• AGI is Still 30 Years Away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu
  2025-04-17 16:06:32
• 2027 Intelligence Explosion: Month-by-Month Model — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo
  2025-04-03 15:05:11
• AMA ft. Sholto & Trenton: New Book, Career Advice Given AGI, How I'd Start From Scratch
  2025-03-25 15:25:59
• Joseph Henrich – Why Humans Survived and Smarter Species Didn't
  2025-03-12 16:40:31
• Notes on China
  2025-03-05 18:12:42
• Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough
  2025-02-19 15:51:23
• Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer – 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
  2025-02-12 19:56:43
• Sarah Paine Episode 3: How Mao Conquered China AI摘要
  2025-01-30 14:45:25
• Sarah Paine Episode 2: Why Japan Lost (Lecture & Interview) AI摘要
  2025-01-23 16:43:16
• Sarah Paine Episode 1: The War For India (Lecture & Interview) AI摘要
  2025-01-16 20:12:01
• Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans
  2025-01-09 16:25:21
• I'm hiring!
  2024-12-27 20:35:29
• Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics
  2024-12-26 16:29:59
• Gwern Branwen - How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory
  2024-11-13 18:42:28
• Dylan Patel & Jon (Asianometry) – How the Semiconductor Industry Actually Works AI摘要
  2024-10-02 14:19:08
• Daniel Yergin – Oil Explains the Entire 20th Century
  2024-09-18 14:02:31
• David Reich - How One Small Tribe Conquered the World 70,000 Years Ago
  2024-08-29 15:38:44
• Joe Carlsmith - Otherness and control in the age of AGI
  2024-08-22 15:09:45
• Patrick McKenzie - How a Discord Server Saved Thousands of Lives
  2024-07-24 13:57:59
• Tony Blair - Life of a PM, The Deep State, Lee Kuan Yew, & AI's 1914 Moment
  2024-06-26 13:41:20
• Francois Chollet, Mike Knoop - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution AI摘要
  2024-06-11 17:03:59
• Leopold Aschenbrenner - China/US Super Intelligence Race, 2027 AGI, & The Return of History
  2024-06-04 15:39:37
• John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) - Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI
  2024-05-15 13:57:36
• John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) — Reasoning, RLHF, & plan for 2027 AGI
  2024-05-15 13:57:36
• Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus
  2024-04-18 15:49:17
• Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's Mind
  2024-03-28 15:10:09
• Demis Hassabis - Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, Rogue Nations Threat
  2024-02-28 15:49:28
• Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) - Craft, Beauty, & The Future of Payments
  2024-02-21 15:25:58
• Tyler Cowen - Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, Animal Spirits, Anarchy, & Growth
  2024-01-31 15:00:00
• Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration]
  2024-01-23 15:00:00
• Will scaling work? [Narration]
  2024-01-19 15:25:56
• Jung Chang - Living through Cultural Revolution and the Crimes of Mao
  2023-11-29 15:01:22
• Andrew Roberts - SV's Napoleon Cult, Why Hitler Lost WW2, Churchill as Applied Historian
  2023-11-22 15:06:19
• Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance
  2023-11-15 15:14:34
• Paul Christiano - Preventing an AI Takeover
  2023-10-31 13:56:24
• Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) - 2028 AGI, New Architectures, Aligning Superhuman Models
  2023-10-26 15:12:11
• Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) - Past, Present, & Future of Mathematics
  2023-10-12 12:49:00
• Sarah C. M. Paine - WW2, Taiwan, Ukraine, & Maritime vs Continental Powers
  2023-10-04 13:43:27
• Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) - Scaling, Alignment, & AI Progress
  2023-08-08 13:40:07
• Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, & Why Books Don’t Work
  2023-07-12 13:12:00
• Carl Shulman (Pt 2) - AI Takeover, Bio & Cyber Attacks, Detecting Deception, & Humanity's Far Future
  2023-06-26 15:07:38
• Carl Shulman (Pt 1) - Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment
  2023-06-14 07:50:32
• Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
  2023-05-23 09:19:29
• Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality
  2023-04-06 13:57:41
• Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Future Models, Spies, Microsoft, Taiwan, & Enlightenment
  2023-03-27 13:57:39
• Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI
  2023-03-22 11:15:00
• Brett Harrison - FTX US Former President & HFT Veteran Speaks Out
  2023-03-13 15:15:00
• Marc Andreessen - AI, Crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, Regrets, Vulnerabilities, & Managerial Revolution
  2023-02-01 16:00:00
• Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less Democracy
  2023-01-24 13:00:00
• Lars Doucet - Progress, Poverty, Georgism, & Why Rent is Too Damn High
  2023-01-09 13:00:00
• Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important Century
  2023-01-03 13:00:00
• Bethany McLean - Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, Frauds, & Visionaries
  2022-12-21 12:30:00
• Nadia Asparouhova - Tech Elites, Democracy, Open Source, & Philanthropy
  2022-12-15 12:00:00
• Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism
  2022-12-01 11:00:00
• Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work
  2022-11-28 13:03:00
• Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?
  2022-11-08 13:00:00
• Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review
  2022-10-27 12:09:43
• Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues
  2022-10-20 11:10:25
• Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex
  2022-09-28 13:21:06
• Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry
  2022-09-14 09:38:32
• Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha
  2022-09-08 11:00:00
• Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity
  2022-08-23 05:56:00
• Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity
  2022-08-23 05:56:00
• Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology
  2022-08-09 04:02:00
• Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics
  2022-08-03 05:00:00
• Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship
  2022-07-27 05:00:00
• Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order
  2022-07-13 06:43:00
• Sam Bankman-Fried - Crypto, Altruism, and Leadership
  2022-07-05 06:55:22
• Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection
  2022-06-23 05:00:00
• Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War
  2022-05-11 05:00:00
• Stephen Grugett (Manifold Markets Founder) - Predictions Markets & Revolutionizing Governance
  2022-05-05 05:04:41
• Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World
  2022-04-27 14:13:00
• Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science
  2022-04-20 10:05:00
• Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia
  2022-04-16 10:00:00
• Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness
  2022-04-12 06:00:00
• Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness
  2022-02-24 06:00:00
• David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes
  2022-01-31 15:55:20
• Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies
  2021-10-05 05:00:00
• David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation
  2021-08-09 15:08:06
• Sarah Fitz-Claridge - Taking Children Seriously
  2021-06-04 16:26:22
• Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress
  2021-05-28 22:02:41
• Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code
  2020-11-28 01:12:45
• Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity
  2020-11-20 23:31:16
• Scott Young - Ultralearning
  2020-11-16 20:25:33
• Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty
  2020-10-28 13:50:45
• Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods
  2020-10-19 19:23:34
• Caleb Watney - America's Innovation Engine
  2020-09-04 13:53:32
• Robin Hanson - The Long View
  2020-08-31 14:41:39
• Jason Crawford - The Roots of Progress
  2020-08-25 18:32:55
• Matjaž Leonardis - Science, Identity, and Probability
  2020-08-22 00:36:27
• Tyler Cowen - The Great Reset
  2020-07-10 16:55:22
• Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas
  2020-05-22 18:31:47