Dwarkesh Patel
Searchable summaries of Dwarkesh Patel interviews on AI, economics, science, and technology.
Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than us
Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AI
Dylan Patel — The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI compute
The most important question nobody's asking about AI.
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential”
Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
Adam Marblestone – AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
What are we scaling?
Sarah Paine – Why Russia Lost the Cold War
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI
Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise
Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”
“I find it almost disturbing that the universe favors life this strongly” – Nick Lane
Some thoughts on the Sutton interview
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
Sarah Paine – How Hitler almost starved Britain
Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel
China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer
Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history
A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church
Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber
"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih
Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
What will automated firms look like?
Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months
Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper
AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu
AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo
AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton
Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution
Notes on China
Satya Nadella shows me the first Majorana 1 Quantum Computing chip
Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
20th Century's Most Lethal Leader – Sarah Paine (Lecture Excerpt)
The Limits of American Power – Sarah Paine
"The Brilliance of Communism" – Sarah Paine
Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)
Attacking America Is a Devastating Miscalculation – Sarah Paine
Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview)
Was The War Against Japan Avoidable? - Sarah Paine
