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Dwarkesh Patel · Philosophy

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?

01 Oct 2026
1h 37m
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The swift subjugation of the Aztec and Inca empires by small groups of Spanish conquistadors resulted from a combination of technological superiority, strategic improvisation, and the exploitation of existing imperial fractures. By leveraging the deep-seated resentment of indigenous subject peoples, the Spanish effecti...

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Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement

17 Sep 2026
1h 20m
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Multi-agent AI systems represent a shift from serial to parallel test-time compute, enabling models to solve complex problems by collaborating through primitive messaging tools. As these systems scale, they demonstrate emergent organizational behaviors, though their effectiveness remains constrained by the difficulty o...

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