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Dwarkesh Podcast

Dwarkesh Podcast

Technology

by Dwarkesh Patel

Deeply researched interviews with scientists, founders, and thinkers exploring progress, technology, and history.

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Episodes (117)

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Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"

Feb 13, 20262h 22m
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Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

Feb 5, 20262h 49m
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Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain

Dec 30, 20251h 49m
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Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)

Dec 23, 202512m
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Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War

Dec 19, 20251h 54m
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Ilya Sutskever — We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research

Nov 25, 20251h 36m
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Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI

Nov 12, 20251h 27m
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Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise

Oct 31, 20251h 30m
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Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away

Oct 17, 20252h 25m
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Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable

Oct 10, 20251h 20m
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Some thoughts on the Sutton interview

Oct 4, 202511m
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Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end

Sep 26, 20251h 6m
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Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine

Sep 12, 20251h 28m
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How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine

Sep 5, 20251h 35m
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Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel

Aug 21, 20251h 44m
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China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer

Aug 15, 20251h 8m
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Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard

Aug 7, 20251h 8m
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Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China

Jul 25, 20251h 55m
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Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history

Jul 10, 20252h 12m
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Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner

Jul 3, 202514m
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A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church

Jun 26, 20251h 33m
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Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber

Jun 19, 20252h 26m
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"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff

Jun 12, 20251h 36m
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Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

May 29, 20251h 29m
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Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken

May 22, 20252h 24m
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What will automated firms look like?

May 1, 202510m
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Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months

Apr 29, 20251h 15m
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Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper

Apr 24, 20251h 23m
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AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

Apr 17, 20253h 8m
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AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo

Apr 3, 20253h 4m
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AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton

Mar 25, 202549m
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Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution

Mar 12, 20251h 52m
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Notes on China

Mar 5, 202519m
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Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough

Feb 19, 20251h 16m
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Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

Feb 12, 20252h 14m
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Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)

Jan 30, 20251h 48m
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Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview)

Jan 23, 20252h 8m
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Sarah Paine — The war for India (lecture & interview)

Jan 16, 20252h 12m
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Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Jan 9, 202559m
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Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT

Dec 26, 20242h 43m
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Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary

Nov 13, 20241h 36m
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@Asianometry & Dylan Patel — How the semiconductor industry actually works

Oct 2, 20242h 9m
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Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin

Sep 18, 20241h 27m
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David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago

Aug 29, 20241h 56m
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Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover

Aug 22, 20242h 30m
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Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan

Jul 24, 20242h 1m
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Tony Blair — Why political leaders keep failing at major change

Jun 26, 202452m
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Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles

Jun 11, 20241h 33m
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Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history

Jun 4, 20244h 31m
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John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) — Reasoning, RLHF, & plan for 2027 AGI

May 15, 20241h 35m
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Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters

Apr 18, 20241h 17m
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Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think

Mar 28, 20243h 12m
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Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold

Feb 28, 20241h 1m
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Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave

Feb 21, 20241h 54m
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Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth

Jan 31, 20241h 42m
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Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration]

Jan 23, 202436m
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Will scaling work? [Narration]

Jan 19, 202425m
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Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine

Nov 29, 20231h 31m
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Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleon as startup founder

Nov 22, 20231h 18m
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Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance

Nov 15, 20232h 34m
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Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover

Oct 31, 20233h 7m
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Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) — 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures

Oct 26, 202344m
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Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) — Past, present, & future of mathematics

Oct 12, 20231h 31m
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Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake

Oct 4, 20232h 24m
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Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) — The hidden pattern behind every AI breakthrough

Aug 8, 20231h 58m
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Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail

Jul 12, 20232h 22m
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Carl Shulman (Pt 2) — AI Takeover, bio & cyber attacks, detecting deception, & humanity's far future

Jun 26, 20233h 7m
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Carl Shulman (Pt 1) — Intelligence explosion, primate evolution, robot doublings, & alignment

Jun 14, 20232h 44m
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Richard Rhodes — The making of the atomic bomb

May 23, 20232h 37m
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Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence, SciFi, & rationality

Apr 6, 20234h 3m
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Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence

Mar 27, 202347m
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Nat Friedman (Github CEO) — Reading ancient scrolls, open source, & AI

Mar 22, 20231h 38m
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Brett Harrison — FTX US former president speaks out

Mar 13, 20232h 37m
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Marc Andreessen — AI, crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, regrets, vulnerabilities, & managerial revolution

Feb 1, 20231h 19m
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Garett Jones — Immigration, national IQ, & less democracy

Jan 24, 20231h 14m
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Lars Doucet — Progress, poverty, Georgism, & why rent is too damn high

Jan 9, 20231h 40m
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Holden Karnofsky — History's most important century

Jan 3, 20231h 56m
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Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries

Dec 21, 20221h 25m
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Nadia Asparouhova — Tech elites, democracy, open source, & philanthropy

Dec 15, 20221h 22m
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Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism

Dec 1, 20221h 30m
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Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work

Nov 28, 202257m
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Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?

Nov 8, 20221h 33m
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Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review

Oct 27, 20222h 25m
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Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues

Oct 20, 20222h 5m
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Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex

Sep 28, 20221h 34m
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Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry

Sep 14, 20221h 31m
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Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha

Sep 8, 20222h 23m
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Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity

Aug 23, 20222h 20m
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Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology

Aug 9, 202256m
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Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics

Aug 3, 20221h 31m
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Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship

Jul 27, 20222h 19m
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Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order

Jul 13, 20221h 23m
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Sam Bankman-Fried - Crypto, Altruism, and Leadership

Jul 5, 202245m
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Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection

Jun 23, 20221h 4m
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Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War

May 11, 202254m
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Stephen Grugett (Manifold Markets Founder) - Predictions Markets & Revolutionizing Governance

May 5, 202250m
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Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World

Apr 27, 20221h 39m
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Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science

Apr 20, 20221h 3m
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Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia

Apr 16, 20221h 7m
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Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness

Apr 12, 20221h 3m
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Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness

Feb 24, 20221h 2m
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David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes

Jan 31, 20221h 24m
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Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies

Oct 5, 20211h 11m
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David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation

Aug 9, 20211h 23m
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Sarah Fitz-Claridge - Taking Children Seriously

Jun 4, 202158m
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Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress

May 28, 20211h 37m
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Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code

Nov 28, 202045m
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Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity

Nov 20, 20201h 27m
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Scott Young - Ultralearning

Nov 16, 20201h 38m
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Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty

Oct 28, 20201h 52m
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Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods

Oct 19, 20201h 26m
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Caleb Watney - America's Innovation Engine

Sep 4, 202055m
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Robin Hanson - The Long View

Aug 31, 20201h 40m
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Jason Crawford - The Roots of Progress

Aug 25, 202048m
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Matjaž Leonardis - Science, Identity, and Probability

Aug 22, 202034m
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Tyler Cowen - The Great Reset

Jul 10, 202047m
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Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas

May 22, 202059m