Dwarkesh Podcast
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Dwarkesh Podcast news-outlet 3d ago
The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job
Labs are throwing away the most valuable data.
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Dwarkesh Podcast news-outlet 13d ago
Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
"He begged to work for the regime that tortured him."
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Dwarkesh Podcast news-outlet 1mo ago
Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up
Working up from basic logic gates to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do.
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Dwarkesh Podcast news-outlet 1mo ago
Notes on pretraining parallelisms and failed training runs.
Deeply researched interviews
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Dwarkesh Podcast news-outlet 1mo ago
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
"Instead of being quiescent, natural selection is everywhere."
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Dwarkesh Podcast news-outlet 2mo ago
Blog prize for the big questions about AI
The not-so-secret point of this whole contest is so that I can hire a researcher
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Dwarkesh Podcast news-outlet 2mo ago
Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
The true story of Einstein, Newton, and Darwin
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Dwarkesh Podcast news-outlet 3mo ago
Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
“And what those stories teach us about how AI will revolutionize math”
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Dwarkesh Podcast news-outlet 3mo ago
Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute
Plus, why an H100 is worth more today than 3 years ago
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Dwarkesh Podcast news-outlet 3mo ago
The most important question nobody's asking about AI
“Preface to the highest stakes negotiations in history.”
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Dwarkesh Podcast news-outlet 4mo ago
Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
"That's why I'm sending this message of urgency"
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Dwarkesh Podcast news-outlet 6mo ago
Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
The brain's secret sauce is its reward functions, not its architecture.
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Dwarkesh Podcast news-outlet 6mo ago
Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)
What are we scaling? I’m confused why some people have short timelines and at the same time are bullish on the current scale up of reinforcement learning atop LLMs. If we’re actually close to a human-like learner, this whole approach of training on verifiable…
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Dwarkesh Podcast news-outlet 6mo ago
Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War
Oil crisis, Sino-Soviet split, ethnic rebellions, and arms build-up
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Dwarkesh Podcast news-outlet 6mo ago
Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)
Why I'm moderately bearish in the short term, and explosively bullish in the long term
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