Dwarkesh Podcast
by Cahyani
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Robert Caro – The master biographer reflects at 91
Robert Caro – The master biographer reflects at 91
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- Robert Caro – The master biographer reflects at 91 · 1 h 1 minThe Robert Caro interview.Watch on YouTube; read the transcript.Sponsors* Antithesis lets you run thorough simulation tests on every PR your coding agents ship. That’s because…
- What I learned about power from LBJ and Robert Moses · 25 minI recently got to interview Robert Caro, who is my favorite author of all time. This gave me the excuse to reread his biographies of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses, and to…
- What will computer chips look like in 2045? · 1 h 9 minDemand for AI compute has grown 3x a year for the last decade, but according to Intel’s CTO, there are only enough chipmaking tools in the world to roughly double leading-edge…
- Welcome to the World of Art · 6 minWelcome to Beyond the Canvas! In this first episode, “Welcome to the World of Art,” we’re taking a relaxed journey into the amazing world of creativity and imagination. From…
- Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 h 37 minNew episode with military historian Si Sheppard.The conquests of the Aztec and Inca empires might be the most shocking events in human history.Hernan Cortés and some hundreds of…
- Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 1 h 20 minNew episode with Noam Brown.We talk about multi-agent, Navier-Stokes, and what the current explosion of maths progress tells us about what happens once you automate AI…
- AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 1 h 37 minNew episode with John Schulman, Beren Millidge and Charlie O’Neill. I got together with some of the most insightful AI researchers I know who are at the openish companies…
- Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 2 h 20 minAjeya Cotra is a researcher at METR, where she works on threat modeling for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI. Before that, she led the technical AI safety program at what…
- The rise and fall of agent civilizations · 25 minThis is a video recording of a post I wrote last week. You can read the original here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get…
- Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 · 1 h 16 minHad a lot of fun chatting again with my twin brother Dylan Patel.We went through lab economics over the next few years - the shift from inference to training as RSI draws near…
- Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 2 h 12 minRyan Greenblatt is the Chief Scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety research. He's also lead author on the "Alignment faking in Large Language…
- 8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning · 9 minRead the essay here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.dwarkesh.com
- Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x · 11 minThis is a video recording of a post I wrote last week. If you want to read the original you can check it out here.Thanks to Mercury for sponsoring this video. Mercury’s built-in…
- Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity · 1 h 38 minAdam Brown is back!General relativity is said to be the most beautiful idea the human mind has ever produced. Most of us will never get to fully appreciate its elegance by taking…
- Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math · 1 h 33 minAlways so much fun to chat with Grant.AI has been making much faster progress in math than in other fields. As a result, mathematics is showing us, very concretely, what AI…
- The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 20 minRead it here.Thanks to Mercury for sponsoring this essay.Mercury has automated basically my entire bill pay process for my business. I just give contractors a dedicated email…
- The data black hole at the center of AI · 12 minRead the transcript here.Thanks to Mercury for sponsoring this essay!Mercury just released a new feature called Command, which gives me AI right in my banking platform. And since…
- Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time · 2 h 8 minHad Ada Palmer back on – this time to talk about Machiavelli, perhaps the most misunderstood thinker of all time.Machiavelli cut his teeth as a high-level diplomat for Florence…
- Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI? · 1 h 16 minEconomics of AGI episode w Alex Imas and Phil Trammell.There’s a bunch of important questions about how we deal with AI that only economics can answer.What is the optimal way to…
- Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up · 1 h 20 minNew blackboard lecture with Reiner Pope: how do chips actually work - starting with basic logic gates, and working up to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the…
