Archive - Dwarkesh Podcast

February 2025

January 2025

What fully automated firms will look like

Everyone is sleeping on the *collective* advantages AIs will have, which have nothing to do with raw IQ - they can be copied, distilled, merged, scaled…

Jan 31 •

Sarah Paine Episode 3: How Mao Conquered China

How did Mao go from military genius to peacetime disaster? How can someone shrewd enough to win a civil war outnumbered 5 to 1 decide "let's kill all…

Jan 30 •

1:48:13

Sarah Paine Episode 2: Why Japan Lost (Lecture & Interview)

Continuing our WWII series: the ideas and economics behind Japanese imperialism and the fatal flaw in their military culture that cost them the war

Jan 23 •

2:08:12

Sarah Paine Episode 1: The War For India (Lecture & Interview)

First of three new lectures from Professor Paine, followed by my questions. This time: Mao v Khrushchev v Nehru v LBJ

Jan 16 •

2:12:58

Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Why he thinks AI won't drive explosive economic growth

Jan 9 •

59:44

December 2024

November 2024

Review of 2 books: China’s Economy by Arthur Kroeber & China Chapter in Trade Wars are Class Wars by Pettis & Klein

Chapter on China in Trade Wars are Class Wars by Michael Pettis and Matthew Klein

Nov 26, 2024 •

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