Dwarkesh Podcast

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Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face

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Ajeya 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 a

Sep 1
2 h 20 min

The rise and fall of agent civilizations

This 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 subscrib

Aug 31
24 min

Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028

Had 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 dra

Aug 25
1 h 16 min

Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?

Ryan 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 Langua

Aug 11
2 h 12 min

8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning

Read 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

Aug 7
8 min

Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x

This 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

Aug 3
11 min

Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity

Adam 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

Jul 10
1 h 38 min

Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math

Always 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, wha

Jun 30
1 h 33 min

The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job

Read 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 dedicat

Jun 26
19 min

The data black hole at the center of AI

Read 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 platfor

Jun 19
11 min

Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time

Had 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

Jun 16
2 h 08 min

Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?

Economics 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 opt

Jun 4
1 h 16 min

Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up

New 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 l

May 22
1 h 20 min

Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch

Eric Jang walks through how to build AlphaGo from scratch, but with modern AI tools. Sometimes you understand the future better by stepping backward. AlphaGo is still th

May 15
2 h 37 min

David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution

David Reich is back. He and collaborator Ali Akbari just published a paper that overturns a long-standing consensus about human evolution — that natural selection has be

May 8
2 h 13 min

Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served

Did a very different format with Reiner Pope - a blackboard lecture where he walks through how frontier LLMs are trained and served. It’s shocking how much you can deduc

Apr 29
2 h 13 min

Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat

I asked Jensen about TPU competition, Nvidia’s lock on the ever more bottlenecked supply chain needed to make advanced chips, whether we should be selling AI chips to Chi

Apr 15
1 h 43 min

Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses

Really enjoyed chatting with Michael Nielsen about how we recognize scientific progress. It's especially relevant for closing the RL verification loop for scientific dis

Apr 7
2 h 03 min

Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery

We begin the episode with the absolutely ingenious and surprising way in which Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion. People sometimes say that AI will make esp

Mar 20
1 h 23 min

Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute

Dylan Patel, founder of SemiAnalysis, provides a deep dive into the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute: logic, memory, and power. And walks through the economics of

Mar 13
2 h 30 min

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What listeners say

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Dwarkesh Patel is one of the most thoroughly prepared and best informed interviewers in the field. Unlike Rogan, who just rambles and interjects his own nonsense, or Lex Friedman, who is horribly boring, Dwarkesh does the hard work of really understanding what his guests are talking about and bringing out the best in them. As a retired professor in the Ivy League and MIT used to the highest level of intellectual discussions, now working with AI, I look forward to listening to every one of his podcasts.

intermediatic · Mar 2025

Great interviewer initially and used to be 5 stars. The latest episode with Leopold is giving air time and support to friends with shaky ideas over accomplished guests. It’s actually hard to listen to the amount of validation of credentials (how many times is it worth mentioning that this guy was valedictorian in college) and awkward in-jokes they make instead of talking about the subject at hand in a serious manner. This would be a 1 star if it he didn’t have recent good guests like Zuck and still have previous great episodes to make up for it, but I fear Dwarkesh has jumped the shark or stepped into the deep end in a topic that he’s not ready for and his “friends” are willing to use him as a mouthpiece since he’s impressed by the credentialism rather then arguments. High potential still if he’s able to realize this and course correct.

diamond bishop · Jun 2024

Dwarkesh is an incredible interviewer. Each listen is invaluable. Top of my must-listen list.

Sooner '19 · Feb 2024

I have learned so much about the world from this podcast. He does assume a lot of prior knowledge, but if you have it, then this is the best show you’ll find

Awsedrftgyhujikolm · Dec 2023

The guests are great. But the host asks questions that are interesting to him rather than what is interesting for his audience. There is no narrative, he is so well versed in the subject that his questions jump into the middle of a subject and the audience is left trying to catch up…why is he asking this question, what is the background behind it? I listened to an episode on Napoleon thinking I would learn something and at the end, I couldn’t recall a single thing that I had learned. It wasn’t that I already knew so much about Napoleon, it was that they never gave any background or context to what they were discussing. Same with his interview with Sarah Paine…it opens with him peppering her with “what if” scenarios as if we’re gaming out a metaverse of scenarios. I. Oils tell that he’s been thinking of these thing but he doesn’t explain why, the context, buildup the scenario to educate the audience to the point where we understand why his question or his scenario is interesting or important. The host provides no narrative, no cohesive thread, and seems to just revel in his conversations for his own personal enjoyment. He gets something out of doing the podcast but unfortunately I got very little out of it other than recognizing that he’s an interesting person with an inquisitive mind who talks with great guests and records those conversations.

TheWoolseyMammoth · Apr 2025

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