Dwarkesh Patel

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$Sarah Paine & Dwarkesh Patel Lecture Series2024-10-11

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↗@Asianometry & Dylan Patel — How the semiconductor industry actually works2024-10-02

↗Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin2024-09-18

↗Help me build a media empire - become my COO2024-09-11

↗$2,000 thumbnail competition2024-08-30

↗David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago2024-08-29

↗Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover2024-08-22

↗Dwarkesh Podcast Progress Update2024-08-20

↗Notes: Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil2024-08-05

↗Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan2024-07-24

↗Notes: Symbolic Species by Terrence Deacon2024-06-27

↗Tony Blair — Why political leaders keep failing at major change2024-06-26

↗Notes: The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker2024-06-24

↗Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles2024-06-11

↗Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history2024-06-04

↗John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) — Reasoning, RLHF, & plan for 2027 AGI2024-05-15

↗Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters2024-04-18

↗Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think2024-03-28

↗Notes: The Prize by Daniel Yergin (Part 1)2024-03-04

↗Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold2024-02-28

↗Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave2024-02-21

↗Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth2024-01-31

↗Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration]2024-01-23

↗Will scaling work? [Narration]2024-01-19

↗Will scaling work?2023-12-26

↗$2000 Clips Competition2023-12-01

↗Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine2023-11-29

↗Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleon as startup founder2023-11-22

↗Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance2023-11-15

↗Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover2023-10-31

↗Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) — 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures2023-10-26

↗Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) — Past, present, & future of mathematics2023-10-12

↗Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake2023-10-04

↗Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) — The hidden pattern behind every AI breakthrough2023-08-08

↗Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail2023-07-12

↗Carl Shulman (Pt 2) — AI Takeover, bio & cyber attacks, detecting deception, & humanity's far future2023-06-26

↗Carl Shulman (Pt 1) — Intelligence explosion, primate evolution, robot doublings, & alignment2023-06-14

↗Contra Marc Andreessen on AI2023-06-13

↗Richard Rhodes — The making of the atomic bomb2023-05-23

↗Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro2023-05-03

↗Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence, SciFi, & rationality2023-04-06

↗Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence2023-03-27

↗Nat Friedman (Github CEO) — Reading ancient scrolls, open source, & AI2023-03-22

↗Brett Harrison — FTX US former president speaks out2023-03-13

↗Marc Andreessen — AI, crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, regrets, vulnerabilities, & managerial revolution2023-02-01

↗Garett Jones — Immigration, national IQ, & less democracy2023-01-24

↗Lars Doucet — Progress, poverty, Georgism, & why rent is too damn high2023-01-09

↗Holden Karnofsky — History's most important century2023-01-03

↗Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries2022-12-21

↗Nadia Asparouhova — Tech elites, democracy, open source, & philanthropy2022-12-15

↗Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism2022-12-01

↗Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work2022-11-28

↗Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?2022-11-08

↗Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review2022-10-27

↗Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues2022-10-20

↗Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex2022-09-28

↗Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry2022-09-14

↗Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha2022-09-08

↗Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity2022-08-23

↗Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology2022-08-09

↗Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics2022-08-03

↗Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship2022-07-27

↗Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order2022-07-13

↗Sam Bankman-Fried - Crypto, Altruism, and Leadership2022-07-05

↗Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection2022-06-23

↗Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War2022-05-11

↗Stephen Grugett (Manifold Markets Founder) - Predictions Markets & Revolutionizing Governance2022-05-05

↗Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World2022-04-27

↗Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science2022-04-20

↗Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia2022-04-16

↗The mystery of the miracle year2022-04-14

↗Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness2022-04-12

↗Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness2022-02-24

↗David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes2022-01-31

↗Contra David Deutsch on AI2022-01-17

↗Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies2021-10-05

↗David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation2021-08-09

↗Sarah Fitz-Claridge - Taking Children Seriously2021-06-04

↗Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress2021-05-28

↗Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code2020-11-28

↗Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity2020-11-20

↗Scott Young - Ultralearning2020-11-16

↗Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty2020-10-28

↗Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods2020-10-19

↗Caleb Watney - America's Innovation Engine2020-09-04

↗Robin Hanson - The Long View2020-08-31

↗Jason Crawford - The Roots of Progress2020-08-25

↗Matjaž Leonardis - Science, Identity, and Probability2020-08-22

↗Tyler Cowen - The Great Reset2020-07-10

↗Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas2020-05-22