Archive - Dwarkesh Podcast

Sarah Paine 6 part July lecture series - free tickets for paid subscribers

6 new lectures from my most popular guest, 4 times over.

Jun 29 •

Godfather of Synthetic Bio on De-Aging, De-Extinction, & Weaponized Mirror Life — George Church

The man behind the last few decades of biotech breakthroughs

Jun 26 •

1:33:44

China’s Manufacturing Dominance: State Directives & Ruthless Competition — Arthur Kroeber

“China wants it all, and they can have it"

Jun 19 •

2:26:43

“China’s digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin.” — Ken Rogoff

A debt shock is coming for both China and the US.

Jun 12 •

1:36:04

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

Continual learning is a huge bottleneck

Jun 2 •

May 2025

Give AIs a stake in the future

Part 1 of Classical Liberal AGI

May 30 •

Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

Or, how China’s political system actually works

May 29 •

1:29:08

How Does Claude 4 Think? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken

Scaling reinforcement learning, tracing circuits, and the path to fully autonomous agents

May 22 •

2:24:01

What Will Automated Firms Look Like?

An animated exploration

May 1 •

10:17

April 2025

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