Dwarkesh Podcast

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 • 

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RL is even more information inefficient than you thought

And implications for RLVR progress

Nov 17 • 

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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 • 

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1:27:47

October 2025

Sarah Paine – How Russia sabotaged China's rise

Plus, where Russia and China go from here

Oct 31 • 

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1:30:36

Thoughts on the AI buildout

Fab CapEx overhang, 1 GW a week, China privileged in long timelines, and much else

Oct 22 • 

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Romeo Dean

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Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away

"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”

Oct 17 • 

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2:25:19

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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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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