Dwarkesh Patel
Searchable summaries of Dwarkesh Patel interviews on AI, economics, science, and technology.
Sarah Paine: We Thought The Soviets Were Going to Win
Why Space Elevators Can't Mine Black Holes – Adam Brown
Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans
How Far Are We From An AI Einstein? - Adam Brown
How Black Holes Reveal a Holographic Reality
Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT
The Grand Theory of Intelligence – Gwern
How Gwern saw AI scaling coming
Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary
$10B OpenAI & Microsoft Cluster in 2025 – Dylan Patel & @Asianometry
Taiwan Invasion: Timeline to Global Collapse – @Asianometry & Dylan Patel
@Asianometry & Dylan Patel — How the semiconductor industry actually works
The caste system transformed Indian genetics – David Reich
Oil Decided World War II – Daniel Yergin
Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin
How horse nomads took over Europe 5000 years ago – David Reich
Our biggest difference with Neanderthals – David Reich
A key period in human evolution wasn't in Africa – David Reich
Why no other human species survived – David Reich
David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago
The bacteria that shaped history: Yersinia pestis – David Reich
Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover
The Biggest Money Laundering Scheme In History – Patrick McKenzie
Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan
Does Tony Blair regret bringing China into world order?
Lee Kuan Yew’s 3 key decisions that made Singapore rich – Tony Blair
Tony Blair — Why political leaders keep failing at major change
Government is a conspiracy of distraction – Tony Blair
If an LLM solves this then we'll probably have AGI – Francois Chollet
Scaling laws are explained by memorization and not intelligence – Francois Chollet
Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles
AI Labs are extremely vulnerable to espionage – Leopold Aschenbrenner
How the US-China AI Race Will Play Out – Leopold Aschenbrenner
AI Nationalization is Inevitable – Leopold Aschenbrenner
Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history
The inside story of how ChatGPT was built – OpenAI cofounder John Schulman
Why GPT-4 is much smarter than it was a year ago – OpenAI cofounder John Schulman
John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) — Reasoning, RLHF, & plan for 2027 AGI
2025 models will be more like coworkers than search engines – OpenAI cofounder John Schulman
LLMs will hit the data wall if they can’t generalize – OpenAI cofounder John Schulman
Japan had no military. But didn’t surrender – Richard Rhodes
Robert Oppenheimer's Worst Enemy – Richard Rhodes
Why Mark Zuckerberg turned down $1B for Facebook
Can synthetic data unlock AI recursive self-improvement? — Mark Zuckerberg
Energy, not compute, will be the #1 bottleneck to AI progress – Mark Zuckerberg
What Mark Zuckerberg learned from Caesar Augustus
Will AI Gatekeepers Tell You What You Can Build? – Mark Zuckerberg
