Archive - Dwarkesh Podcast

Patrick McKenzie - How a Discord Server Saved Thousands of Lives

Plus unconstitutional censorship, money laundering, Factorio, and a friendly debate about crypto

Jul 24 •

2:01:33

June 2024

Notes: Symbolic Species by Terrence Deacon

Janky, unedited, written to help myself retain and understand better. Trenton Bricken (good friend and former podcast guest) was the one who recommended…

Jun 27 •

Tony Blair - Life of a PM, The Deep State, Lee Kuan Yew, & AI's 1914 Moment

What makes a good leader?

Jun 26 •

52:51

Notes: The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker

What exactly is mentalese

Jun 24 •

Francois Chollet, Mike Knoop - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution

Listen now | “They're confusing skill and intelligence.”

Jun 11 •

1:33:52

Leopold Aschenbrenner - China/US Super Intelligence Race, 2027 AGI, & The Return of History

The trillion dollar cluster...

Jun 4 •

4:31:17

May 2024

John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) - Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI

Watch now | Chatted with John Schulman (cofounded OpenAI and led ChatGPT creation) on: How post-training tames the shoggoth & enabled GPT-4o AI…

May 15 •

1:36:30

April 2024

Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus

Listen now | Mark Zuckerberg on: Llama 3 - open sourcing towards AGI what he would have done as CEO of Google+ energy constraints on scaling Caeser…

Apr 18 •

1:17:54

March 2024

Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's Mind

Listen now | Had so much fun chatting with my good friends Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas on the podcast. No way to summarize it, except: This is…

Mar 28 •

3:12:20

Notes: The Prize by Daniel Yergin (Part 1)

"the best histories on any one topic are often histories of basically everything"

Mar 4 •

February 2024

Demis Hassabis - Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, Rogue Nations Threat

"scaling is an artform"

Feb 28 •

1:01:33

Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) - Craft, Beauty, & The Future of Payments

Listen now | what it takes to process $1 trillion/year, how to build multi-decade APIs, companies, and relationships, and what's next for Stripe

Feb 21 •

1:54:47

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