#1last week•2:03:04Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than usReally enjoyed chatting with Michael Nielsen about how we recognize scientific progress. It’s especially relevant for closing the RL verification loop for scientifi...Dwarkesh PatelLikePinAdd to Playlist
#24 weeks ago•1:23:44Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AIWe begin the episode with the absolutely ingenious and surprising way in which Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion. People sometimes say that AI will mak...Dwarkesh PatelLikePinAdd to Playlist
#3last month•2:30:45Dylan Patel — The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI computeDylan Patel, founder of SemiAnalysis, provides a deep dive into the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute: logic, memory, and power. And walks through the economi...Dwarkesh PatelLikePinAdd to Playlist
#4last month•2:02:20Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada PalmerRenaissance history is so much wilder and weirder than you would have expected. Very fun chatting with Ada Palmer (historian, novelist, and composer based at the Un...Dwarkesh PatelLikePinAdd to Playlist
#52 months ago•2:22:20Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential”Dario Amodei thinks we are just a few years away from “a country of geniuses in a data center”. In this episode, we discuss what to make of the scaling hypothesis i...Dwarkesh PatelLikePinAdd to Playlist
#62 months ago•2:49:46Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”In this episode, John and I got to do a real deep-dive with Elon. We discuss the economics of orbital data centers, the difficulties of scaling power on Earth, what...Dwarkesh PatelLikePinAdd to Playlist
#74 months ago•1:49:54Adam Marblestone – AI is missing something fundamental about the brainAdam Marblestone is CEO of Convergent Research. He’s had a very interesting past life; Research Scientist at Google Deepmind on their neuroscient team; has worked o...Dwarkesh PatelLikePinAdd to Playlist
#84 months ago•1:54:55Sarah Paine – Why Russia Lost the Cold WarThis is the final episode of the Sarah Paine lecture series, and it’s probably my favorite one. Sarah gives a “tour of the arguments” on what ultimately led to the...Dwarkesh PatelLikePinAdd to Playlist
#95 months ago•1:36:04Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchIlya & I discuss SSI’s strategy, the problems with pre-training, how to improve the generalization of AI models, and how to ensure AGI goes well. 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋�...Dwarkesh PatelLikePinAdd to Playlist