Dwarkesh Patel — transcripts.

1Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) – AI and the future of math 2What does the next training paradigm look like? 3The data black hole at the center of AI 4Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmer 5Sarah Paine - Why Putin and Xi can't escape geography 6The better AI gets, the smaller its share of the economy might get – Alex Imas and Phil Trammell 7Chip design from the bottom up – Reiner Pope 8What rebuilding AlphaGo teaches us about self-play, RL, and future of LLMs - Eric Jang 9David Reich – Bronze Age shock, the Neanderthal puzzle, & the sudden spread of farming 10How GPT, Claude, and Gemini are actually trained and served – Reiner Pope 11Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist? 12Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than us 13Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AI 14Dylan Patel — The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI compute 15The most important question nobody's asking about AI. 16Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer 17Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential” 18Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space” 19Adam Marblestone – AI is missing something fundamental about the brain 20What are we scaling? 21Sarah Paine – Why Russia Lost the Cold War 22Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research 23Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI 24Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise 25Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals” 26“I find it almost disturbing that the universe favors life this strongly” – Nick Lane 27Some thoughts on the Sutton interview 28Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end 29Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine 30Sarah Paine – How Hitler almost starved Britain 31Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel 32China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer 33Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard 34Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner 35Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China 36Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history 37A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church 38Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber 39"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff 40Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih 41Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken 42What will automated firms look like? 43Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months 44Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper 45AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu 46AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo 47AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton 48Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution 49Notes on China 50Satya Nadella shows me the first Majorana 1 Quantum Computing chip