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$2000 Clips Competition
Wanna hire someone to make clips for my future episodes
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Dwarkesh Patel
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November 2023
Jung Chang - Living through Cultural Revolution and the Crimes of Mao
Listen now | Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Read the full transcript here. Follow me on Twitter for…
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Dwarkesh Patel
1:31:15
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Andrew Roberts - SV's Napoleon Cult, Why Hitler Lost WW2, Churchill as Applied Historian
Listen now | Churchill, Napoleon, Zelensky, Hitler
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Dwarkesh Patel
1:18:49
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Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance
Listen now (154 mins) | why Western governments are so dangerously broken, and how to fix them before an even more catastrophic crisis
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Dwarkesh Patel
2:34:13
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October 2023
Paul Christiano - Preventing an AI Takeover
Listen now | Paul Christiano is the world’s leading AI safety researcher. My full episode with him is out! We discuss: Does he regret inventing RLHF…
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Dwarkesh Patel
3:07:01
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Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) - 2028 AGI, New Architectures, Aligning Superhuman Models
I had a lot of fun chatting with Shane Legg - Founder and Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind! We discuss: Why he expects AGI around 2028 How to align…
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Dwarkesh Patel
44:18
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Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) - Past, Present, & Future of Mathematics
Listen now | I had a lot of fun chatting with Grant Sanderson (who runs the excellent 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel) about: Whether advanced math requires…
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Dwarkesh Patel
1:31:20
Sarah C. M. Paine - WW2, Taiwan, Ukraine, & Maritime vs Continental Powers
Listen now | Learned so much from Sarah Paine, Professor of History and Strategy at the Naval War College. We discuss: how continental vs maritime…
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Dwarkesh Patel
2:24:32
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August 2023
Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) - Scaling, Alignment, & AI Progress
Listen Now | plus: bioterrorism, China, cyberattacks, scaling
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Dwarkesh Patel
1:58:43
July 2023
Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, & Why Books Don’t Work
Listen now | "I was shocked with how intense, painstaking, and effective his learning process was"
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Dwarkesh Patel
2:22:39
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June 2023
Carl Shulman (Pt 2) - AI Takeover, Bio & Cyber Attacks, Detecting Deception, & Humanity's Far Future
the episode that had the biggest impact on my worldview
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Dwarkesh Patel
3:07:06
Carl Shulman (Pt 1) - Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment
Listen now | In terms of the depth and range of topics, this episode is the best I’ve done. No part of my worldview is the same after talking with Carl…
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Dwarkesh Patel
2:44:15
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