Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Historical analysis • AI and technology • Significant figures in history and technology • Moral and ethical questions • Economic and political insights • Longtermism and future planning
The "Dwarkesh Podcast" features deeply researched interviews that delve into a diverse range of topics, focusing primarily on history, philosophy, technology, economics, and current global issues. The podcast, produced by Dwarkesh Patel, often explores how pivotal events and technologies have shaped the modern world and contemplates their future implications. Episodes typically involve conversations with authors, historians, economists, technologists, and intellectuals who are experts in their fields.
Recurring themes in this podcast include the exploration of significant historical periods and personalities, as seen in discussions about the Napoleonic Wars, the life of Tony Blair, and the crises faced by figures like Lyndon Johnson. The podcast frequently addresses global impacts of events, such as Napoleon’s campaigns, World War II's aftermath, and the modern geopolitical landscape involving countries like China and Russia.
Technological progress and its implications are another central topic. Episodes often examine the advancements in artificial intelligence, the future of energy, the potential of calculated bioengineering, and the ethical considerations surrounding these developments. The podcast does not shy away from discussing futuristic scenarios and the intellectual preparations needed for impending innovations, such as the emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Philosophical inquiry is also prominent, with thoughtful discussions on subjects ranging from moral progress, effective altruism, longtermism, to the philosophical underpinnings of historical and current events. These discussions are enriched by references to notable theories and belief systems, examining how past ideas continue to influence and shape present practices and thoughts.
Economic concepts, too, are dissected thoroughly, with conversations around the functioning and evolution of markets, entrepreneurship, financial mechanisms, and the broader economic policies of different eras. The podcast also provides insights into potential future economic shifts and the cascading effects of present-day decisions.
Overall, the "Dwarkesh Podcast" provides intellectually stimulating content that bridges past, present, and future, fostering a comprehensive understanding of complex and varying subjects through in-depth interviews with leading thinkers.
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Episodes:
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Dylan Patel & Jon (Asianometry) – How the Semiconductor Industry Actually Works
2024-Oct-02
129 minutes
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Daniel Yergin – Oil Explains the Entire 20th Century
2024-Sep-18
87 minutes
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David Reich - How One Small Tribe Conquered the World 70,000 Years Ago
2024-Aug-29
116 minutes
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Joe Carlsmith - Otherness and control in the age of AGI
2024-Aug-22
150 minutes
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Patrick McKenzie - How a Discord Server Saved Thousands of Lives
2024-Jul-24
121 minutes
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Tony Blair - Life of a PM, The Deep State, Lee Kuan Yew, & AI's 1914 Moment
2024-Jun-26
52 minutes
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Francois Chollet, Mike Knoop - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution
2024-Jun-11
93 minutes
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Leopold Aschenbrenner - China/US Super Intelligence Race, 2027 AGI, & The Return of History
2024-Jun-04
271 minutes
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John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) - Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI
2024-May-15
96 minutes
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Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus
2024-Apr-18
77 minutes
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Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's Mind
2024-Mar-28
192 minutes
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Demis Hassabis - Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, Rogue Nations Threat
2024-Feb-28
61 minutes
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Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) - Craft, Beauty, & The Future of Payments
2024-Feb-21
114 minutes
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Tyler Cowen - Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, Animal Spirits, Anarchy, & Growth
2024-Jan-31
102 minutes
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Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration]
2024-Jan-23
36 minutes
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Will scaling work? [Narration]
2024-Jan-19
25 minutes
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Jung Chang - Living through Cultural Revolution and the Crimes of Mao
2023-Nov-29
91 minutes
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Andrew Roberts - SV's Napoleon Cult, Why Hitler Lost WW2, Churchill as Applied Historian
2023-Nov-22
78 minutes
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Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance
2023-Nov-15
154 minutes
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Paul Christiano - Preventing an AI Takeover
2023-Oct-31
187 minutes
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Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) - 2028 AGI, New Architectures, Aligning Superhuman Models
2023-Oct-26
44 minutes
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Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) - Past, Present, & Future of Mathematics
2023-Oct-12
91 minutes
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Sarah C. M. Paine - WW2, Taiwan, Ukraine, & Maritime vs Continental Powers
2023-Oct-04
144 minutes
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Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) - Scaling, Alignment, & AI Progress
2023-Aug-08
118 minutes
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Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, & Why Books Don’t Work
2023-Jul-12
142 minutes
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Carl Shulman (Pt 2) - AI Takeover, Bio & Cyber Attacks, Detecting Deception, & Humanity's Far Future
2023-Jun-26
187 minutes
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Carl Shulman (Pt 1) - Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment
2023-Jun-14
164 minutes
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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
2023-May-23
157 minutes
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Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality
2023-Apr-06
243 minutes
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Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Future Models, Spies, Microsoft, Taiwan, & Enlightenment
2023-Mar-27
47 minutes
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Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI
2023-Mar-22
98 minutes
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Brett Harrison - FTX US Former President & HFT Veteran Speaks Out
2023-Mar-13
157 minutes
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Marc Andreessen - AI, Crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, Regrets, Vulnerabilities, & Managerial Revolution
2023-Feb-01
79 minutes
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Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less Democracy
2023-Jan-24
74 minutes
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Lars Doucet - Progress, Poverty, Georgism, & Why Rent is Too Damn High
2023-Jan-09
100 minutes
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Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important Century
2023-Jan-03
116 minutes
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Bethany McLean - Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, Frauds, & Visionaries
2022-Dec-21
85 minutes
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Nadia Asparouhova - Tech Elites, Democracy, Open Source, & Philanthropy
2022-Dec-15
82 minutes
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Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism
2022-Dec-01
90 minutes
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Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work
2022-Nov-28
57 minutes
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Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?
2022-Nov-08
93 minutes
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Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review
2022-Oct-27
145 minutes
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Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues
2022-Oct-20
125 minutes
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Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex
2022-Sep-28
94 minutes
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Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry
2022-Sep-14
91 minutes
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Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha
2022-Sep-08
143 minutes
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Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity
2022-Aug-23
140 minutes
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Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology
2022-Aug-09
56 minutes
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Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics
2022-Aug-03
91 minutes
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Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship
2022-Jul-27
139 minutes
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Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order
2022-Jul-13
83 minutes
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Sam Bankman-Fried - Crypto, Altruism, and Leadership
2022-Jul-05
45 minutes
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Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection
2022-Jun-23
64 minutes
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Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War
2022-May-11
54 minutes
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Stephen Grugett (Manifold Markets Founder) - Predictions Markets & Revolutionizing Governance
2022-May-05
50 minutes
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Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World
2022-Apr-27
99 minutes
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Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science
2022-Apr-20
63 minutes
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Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia
2022-Apr-16
67 minutes
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Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness
2022-Apr-12
63 minutes
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Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness
2022-Feb-24
62 minutes
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David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes
2022-Jan-31
84 minutes
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Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies
2021-Oct-05
71 minutes
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David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation
2021-Aug-09
83 minutes
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Sarah Fitz-Claridge - Taking Children Seriously
2021-Jun-04
58 minutes
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Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress
2021-May-28
97 minutes
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Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code
2020-Nov-28
45 minutes
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Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity
2020-Nov-20
87 minutes
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Scott Young - Ultralearning
2020-Nov-16
98 minutes
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Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty
2020-Oct-28
112 minutes
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Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods
2020-Oct-19
86 minutes
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Caleb Watney - America's Innovation Engine
2020-Sep-04
55 minutes
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Robin Hanson - The Long View
2020-Aug-31
100 minutes
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Jason Crawford - The Roots of Progress
2020-Aug-25
48 minutes
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Matjaž Leonardis - Science, Identity, and Probability
2020-Aug-22
34 minutes
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Tyler Cowen - The Great Reset
2020-Jul-10
47 minutes
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Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas
2020-May-22
59 minutes
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