Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ AI and AGI developments • Historical analysis and discussions • Economic and geopolitical insights • Interviews with experts and thought leaders • Technological advancements and societal impacts
The "Dwarkesh Podcast" is a series of deeply researched interviews that frequently delves into complex themes at the intersection of science, technology, and history. The podcast features conversations with experts and thought leaders across various domains. A recurring theme is the discussion around artificial intelligence (AI), its future implications, and challenges such as alignment and scaling. Various episodes explore the potential timeline for achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), its socio-economic implications, and the geopolitics involved, particularly in relation to countries like China and the United States.
History, especially military and political history, is another significant focus. The podcast often examines historical events and figures to draw lessons applicable to current geopolitical dynamics, such as the strategies of historical leaders like Mao Zedong and Winston Churchill, and events such as the world wars. There is a particular interest in how these lessons inform present-day strategic and geopolitical issues.
Technology and innovation, especially in the context of biotech and AI, are frequently explored, with episodes discussing breakthroughs in synthetic biology, genetics, and the mechanics of technological progress. The podcast also tackles the challenges and opportunities associated with space exploration, energy, and environmental issues.
Additionally, the podcast addresses socio-political topics, including governance, economic growth, and the impact of global policies. Discussions are often theoretical and speculative, aimed at understanding broader trends within tech, economics, and world affairs. Throughout, the series maintains a rigorous analytical approach, engaging with subjects through a lens of in-depth research and expert insight.
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Episodes:
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Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
2025-Sep-12
88 minutes
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How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine
2025-Sep-05
95 minutes
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Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel
2025-Aug-21
104 minutes
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China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer
2025-Aug-15
68 minutes
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Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard
2025-Aug-07
68 minutes
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Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China
2025-Jul-25
115 minutes
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Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history
2025-Jul-10
132 minutes
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Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
2025-Jul-03
14 minutes
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A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church
2025-Jun-26
93 minutes
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Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber
2025-Jun-19
146 minutes
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"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff
2025-Jun-12
96 minutes
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Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih
2025-May-29
89 minutes
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Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
2025-May-22
144 minutes
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What will automated firms look like?
2025-May-01
10 minutes
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Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months
2025-Apr-29
75 minutes
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Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper
2025-Apr-24
83 minutes
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AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu
2025-Apr-17
188 minutes
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AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo
2025-Apr-03
184 minutes
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AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton
2025-Mar-25
49 minutes
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Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution
2025-Mar-12
112 minutes
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Notes on China
2025-Mar-05
19 minutes
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Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough
2025-Feb-19
76 minutes
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Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
2025-Feb-12
134 minutes
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Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)
2025-Jan-30
108 minutes
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Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview)
2025-Jan-23
128 minutes
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Sarah Paine — The war for India (lecture & interview)
2025-Jan-16
132 minutes
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Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans
2025-Jan-09
59 minutes
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Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT
2024-Dec-26
163 minutes
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Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary
2024-Nov-13
96 minutes
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@Asianometry & Dylan Patel — How the semiconductor industry actually works
2024-Oct-02
129 minutes
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Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin
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 — Preventing an AI takeover
2024-Aug-22
150 minutes
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Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan
2024-Jul-24
121 minutes
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Tony Blair — Why political leaders keep failing at major change
2024-Jun-26
52 minutes
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Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles
2024-Jun-11
93 minutes
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Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & 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, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters
2024-Apr-18
77 minutes
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Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think
2024-Mar-28
192 minutes
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Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold
2024-Feb-28
61 minutes
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Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave
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 (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine
2023-Nov-29
91 minutes
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Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleon as startup founder
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, superhuman alignment, new architectures
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 — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake
2023-Oct-04
144 minutes
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Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) — The hidden pattern behind every AI breakthrough
2023-Aug-08
118 minutes
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Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail
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 — The making of the atomic bomb
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) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence
2023-Mar-27
47 minutes
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Nat Friedman (Github CEO) — Reading ancient scrolls, open source, & AI
2023-Mar-22
98 minutes
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Brett Harrison — FTX US former president 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 — History's 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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