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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
Listen now | developing a powerful, unprecedented, & potentially apocalyptic technology within an uncertain arms-race situation
May 23
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Dwarkesh Patel
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Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
"Explore a single individual deeply enough and truths about all individuals emerge." - Robert Caro
May 3
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Dwarkesh Patel
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April 2023
Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality
Listen now | 4 hours of me coming up with reasons why AI might not kill us all, & Elieze explaining why I'm wrong.
Apr 6
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Dwarkesh Patel
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March 2023
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Future Models, Spies, Microsoft, Taiwan, & Enlightenment
Listen now | time to AGIs, leaks and spies, what's after generative models, post AGI futures, working with MSFT and competing with Google, difficulty of…
Mar 27
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Dwarkesh Patel
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Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI
Listen now | lost gospels, forgotten epics, & missing works of Aristotle.
Mar 22
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Brett Harrison - FTX US Former President & HFT Veteran Speaks Out
Listen now | In his first longform interview since the fall of FTX
Mar 13
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February 2023
Marc Andreessen - AI, Crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, Regrets, Vulnerabilities, & Managerial Revolution
Listen now | future of NFTS, fusion, education, Twitter, venture, managerialism, & big tech
Feb 1
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Dwarkesh Patel
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January 2023
Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less Democracy
Listen now | How migrants bring their values to their new countries, Why national IQ matters, How the Chinese people are an unstoppable global force for…
Jan 24
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Dwarkesh Patel
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Lars Doucet - Progress, Poverty, Georgism, & Why Rent is Too Damn High
Listen now | "completely changed how I think about who creates value in the world and who leaches off it."
Jan 9
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Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important Century
Listen now | AI, Progress, Digital People, Ethics, & a $30m grant to OpenAI
Jan 3
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December 2022
Bethany McLean - Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, Frauds, & Visionaries
Listen now | This was one of my favorite episodes ever. Bethany McLean broke the Enron story & has written some of the best finance books out there. We…
Dec 21, 2022
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Dwarkesh Patel
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Nadia Asparouhova - Tech Elites, Democracy, Open Source, & Philanthropy
Listen now | On the culture of the new tech elite, the priorities of their philanthropy, and the limitations of democracy in open source
Dec 15, 2022
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Dwarkesh Patel
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