Dwarkesh Podcast

Hiring scouts to help me find guests

$100/hour, fully remote. Ideal candidate is maybe a grad student/post doc/or working in one of: bio, history, econ, math/physics, AI/hardware.

Jan 15 • Dwarkesh Patel

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What I've been reading recently - Jan 10, 2026

Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos, Machines of Loving Grace, Max Hodak’s theory of consciousness, Neural network training makes beautiful fractals

Jan 10 • Dwarkesh Patel

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December 2025

Adam Marblestone – AI is missing something fundamental about the brain

The brain's secret sauce is its reward functions, not its architecture.

Dec 30, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

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Capital in the 22nd Century

Piketty was wrong about the past. He’s probably right about the future.

Published on Philosopher count • Dec 29, 2025

An audio version of my blog post, Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)

Dec 23, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

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Sarah Paine – Why Russia Lost the Cold War

Oil crisis, Sino-Soviet split, ethnic rebellions, and arms build-up

Dec 19, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

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Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)

Why I'm moderately bearish in the short term, and explosively bullish in the long term

Dec 2, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

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Podcast Strategy Doc (December 2025)

Back to The Lunar Society mission

Dec 1, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

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November 2025

Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research

“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”

Nov 25, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

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RL is even more information inefficient than you thought

And implications for RLVR progress

Nov 17, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

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Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI

Plus a tour of Fairwater 2, the most powerful AI datacenter in the world

Nov 12, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

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October 2025

Sarah Paine – How Russia sabotaged China's rise

Plus, where Russia and China go from here

Oct 31, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

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