Dwarkesh Patel

Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover

Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) — 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures

Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) — Past, present, & future of mathematics

Are we risking nuclear war by supporting Ukraine?

How Xi & Putin think - maritime vs continental powers

Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake

What if the Third Reich survived WW2?

Why did so many countries give up nukes in 50s? - Richard Rhodes

Why Microsoft paid $7.5 billion for GitHub (Nat Friedman)

Nat Friedman, former CEO of GitHub and co-founder of Xamarin, orchestrated Microsoft’s acquisition of the platform by identifying a fundamental shift where developers, rather than IT departments, drive software purchasing decisions. After joining Microsoft in 2016, Friedman convinced Satya Nadella that acquiring GitHub...

George Hotz vs Eliezer Yudkowsky

Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) — The hidden pattern behind every AI breakthrough

In this interview podcast, Dwarkesh Patel speaks with Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, about the scaling of AI models, exploring why scaling works, its predictability, and the emergence of abilities. They discuss the limitations of current models, potential constraints like data and compute, and alternative loss functio...

Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail

In this podcast, Andy Matuschak dives into the intricacies of learning, memory, and the design of educational tools. He discusses why people often find it hard to retain information, distinguishing between a lack of understanding and simple forgetting. The conversation highlights the significance of active reading and ...

Carl Shulman (Pt 2) — AI Takeover, bio & cyber attacks, detecting deception, & humanity's far future

Carl Shulman (Pt 1) — Intelligence explosion, primate evolution, robot doublings, & alignment

Richard Rhodes — The making of the atomic bomb

Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence, SciFi, & rationality

Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence

Nat Friedman (Github CEO) — Reading ancient scrolls, open source, & AI

Brett Harrison — FTX US former president speaks out

Marc Andreessen — AI, crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, regrets, vulnerabilities, & managerial revolution