Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI12 Feb 20252h 14mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution12 Mar 20251h 52mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo03 Apr 20253h 4mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton25 Mar 202549mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper24 Apr 20251h 23mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months29 Apr 20251h 15mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih29 May 20251h 29mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken22 May 20252h 24mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber19 Jun 20252h 26mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff12 Jun 20251h 36mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church26 Jun 20251h 33mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China25 Jul 20251h 55mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history10 Jul 20252h 12mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel21 Aug 20251h 44mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer15 Aug 20251h 8mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard07 Aug 20251h 8mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine12 Sep 20251h 28mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Ilya Sutskever — We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research25 Nov 20251h 36mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain30 Dec 20251h 49mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”05 Feb 20262h 49mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer06 Mar 20262h 2mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery20 Mar 20261h 23mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute13 Mar 20262h 30mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat15 Apr 20261h 43mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution08 May 20262h 13mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served29 Apr 20262h 13mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?04 Jun 20261h 16mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed
Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time16 Jun 20262h 8mDwarkesh PodcastProcessed