Dwarkesh Podcast

Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable

Life is continuous with Earth’s geochemistry

Oct 10 • 

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1:20:08

Some thoughts on the Sutton interview

I have a much better understanding of Sutton’s vision now

Oct 4 • 

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10

11:39

On The Vital Question by Nick Lane

Life is continuous with Earth's geochemistry??

Oct 1

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September 2025

Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end

Watch now (66 mins) | LLMs aren’t Bitter-Lesson-pilled

Sep 26 • 

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1:06:21

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

Plus, how VLA models work, self-improvement from deployment, and China’s hardware advantage

Sep 12 • 

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6

1:28:28

How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine

“The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril” – Winston Churchill

Sep 5 • 

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1:35:17

August 2025

Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel

Is the answer already in our genome?

Aug 21 • 

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1:44:39

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

Plus, how solar fits into the next 10 years

Aug 15 • 

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8

1:08:21

Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard

“Chickens are unbeatable at converting grain into protein”

Aug 7 • 

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24

1:08:04

July 2025

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

Plus, the most lopsided naval battle in human history

Jul 25 • 

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6

1:55:37

Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history

The most consequential figure of the 20th century

Jul 10 • 

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18

2:12:40

Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner

An audio version of the original blog post

Jul 3 • 

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