Dwarkesh Podcast

One interesting point made here is that the cost of turbines puts a floor price on any form of generation which uses them

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China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer

Aug 15, 2025 · 1h 08m

with Casey Handmer

Worth hearing for Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer on whether publishing transformer research was a mistake, and how Google decides what to keep private.

@sosodev +2 more

Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

Feb 12, 2025 · 2h 14m

with Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer , Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat , Noam Shazeer and Jeff Dean

Professors just aren't screaming it from the rooftops. See the most recent Dwarkesh podcast.

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Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028

Aug 25, 2026 · 1h 16m

Recommended the video (Dwarkesh's episode with Reiner Pope) for its blackboard explanation of LLM inference, though the commenter only skimmed it.

@gghh +1 more

Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served

Apr 29, 2026 · 2h 13m

with Reiner Pope , Reiner Pope, Eric Jang

Terence Tao gave a good interview to Dwarkesh Patel talking about Kepler.

@ainch +1 more

Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery

Mar 20, 2026 · 1h 23m

with Terence Tao

Dario's most recent Dwarkesh interview is worth a listen in any event.

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Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"

Feb 13, 2026 · 2h 22m

with Dario Amodei

If you prefer video format, the author, former OpenAI superalignment team, also just had an interview with Dwarkesh.

@reducesuffering +1 more

Some thoughts on the Sutton interview

Oct 4, 2025 · 11m

These interviews are very good: hearing people talk casually about their work is the most efficient way to learn how things work inside the big labs.

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Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken

May 22, 2025 · 2h 24m

with Sholto Douglas, Trenton Bricken , Trenton Bricken

Dwarkesh Patel has an excellent talk with David Reich about the broader history of genetics.

@consumer451 +1 more

David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago

Aug 29, 2024 · 1h 56m

with David Reich

Dwarkesh just released an interview with Francois Chollet; I'm very interested in hearing more about his conceptions of the limitations of LLMs.

@bigyikes +1 more

Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles

Jun 11, 2024 · 1h 33m

with Francois Chollet

The most recent episode with Paul Christiano has a lot of good discussion on these topics.

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Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover

Oct 31, 2023 · 3h 07m

with Paul Christiano

Dwarkesh always asks great questions, and Matuschak has an amazing knack for interpreting those questions in interesting ways.

@Smaug123 +1 more

Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail

Jul 12, 2023 · 2h 22m

with Matuschak , Andy Matuschak

The recent Machiavelli podcast has an interesting part on how the Inquisition, printmakers, and authors collaborated on censorship, establishing an early copyright.

@adolph

Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time

Jun 16, 2026 · 2h 08m

Good Dwarkesh Podcast episode, a deep dive into the semiconductor industry and its bottlenecks.

@senordevnyc

Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute

Mar 13, 2026 · 2h 30m

Read/watch this interview with Ada Palmer on her new book about the Renaissance. Florence did this for a time.

@npunt

Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer

Mar 6, 2026 · 2h 02m

with Ada Palmer

See the recent Dwarkesh interview with Elon: a direct pointer to an episode answering the orbital data center question.

@Geee

Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

Feb 5, 2026 · 2h 49m

with Elon Musk

Strongly recommends the Karpathy episode: AI will spread slowly, automating more manual work each year until it's indispensable.

@spaceywilly

Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away

Oct 17, 2025 · 2h 25m

with Andrej Karpathy

Check out Nick Land on Dwarkesh. Self organization might just be the second law of thermodynamics in action

@vatsachak

Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable

Oct 10, 2025 · 1h 20m

with Nick Land

Sergey Levine sat for an excellent Dwarkesh podcast episode this year, which the commenter thoroughly recommends.

@chrishare

Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine

Sep 12, 2025 · 1h 28m

with Sergey Levine

Recommends every Dwarkesh Patel episode with Sarah C. M. Paine, saying history is the best teacher and that they learned a lot from each.

@consumer451

Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China

Jul 25, 2025 · 1h 55m

with Sarah C. M. Paine

Dwarkesh Patel interviewed two of the post's authors, Scott Alexander and Daniel Kokotajlo, released the same day.

@yonran

AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo

Apr 3, 2025 · 3h 04m

with Scott Alexander, Daniel Kokotajlo

If you're not listening to Dwarkesh Patel's podcast, you're missing out; the boring parts with Satya Nadella on AGI and growth are the most interesting.

@consumer451

Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough

Feb 19, 2025 · 1h 16m

with Satya Nadella

One of my favorite interviews; the Naval War College professor used Dwarkesh's questions as a launching platform for informed insight.

@DevX101

Sarah Paine — The war for India (lecture & interview)

Jan 16, 2025 · 2h 12m

with Naval War College professor

There's a very entertaining Dwarkesh podcast with Adam Brown about this

@thatguymike

Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT

Dec 26, 2024 · 2h 43m

with Adam Brown

For an opposing view, he points to a very long interview with Leopold Aschenbrenner on Dwarkesh Patel's show.

@tkgally

Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history

Jun 4, 2024 · 4h 31m

with Leopold Aschenbrenner

Just started watching the new Dwarkesh interview with Zuck; you can tell from the first few minutes he has far more enthusiasm and engagement than 99% of big tech CEOs.

@eigenvalue

Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters

Apr 18, 2024 · 1h 17m

with Mark Zuckerberg

Search the transcript for "circuit" for the quick bits on circuit tracing insights.

@rob-olmos

Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think

Mar 28, 2024 · 3h 12m

with Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken

A relevant interview between Dwarkesh Patel and Marc Andreessen on James Burnham's ideas about the managerial class arising at scale.

@deevolution

Marc Andreessen — AI, crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, regrets, vulnerabilities, & managerial revolution

Feb 1, 2023 · 1h 19m

with Marc Andreessen

I particularly like his interview with Dwarkesh Patel

@adverbly

Lars Doucet — Progress, poverty, Georgism, & why rent is too damn high

Jan 9, 2023 · 1h 40m

with Lars Doucet