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Notes on China

Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT

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

Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary

Livestream Sarah Paine tonight at 7 PM Pacific on Japan at War

Come watch Sarah Paine lecture live next week!

Sarah Paine & Dwarkesh Patel Lecture Series

@Asianometry & Dylan Patel — How the semiconductor industry actually works

Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin

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David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago

Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover

Dwarkesh Podcast Progress Update

Notes: Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil

Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan

Notes: Symbolic Species by Terrence Deacon

Tony Blair — Why political leaders keep failing at major change

Notes: The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker

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Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles

Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history

John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) — Reasoning, RLHF, & plan for 2027 AGI

Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters

Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think

Notes: The Prize by Daniel Yergin (Part 1)

Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold

Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave

Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth

Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration]

Will scaling work? [Narration]