Sitemap - 2026 - Dwarkesh Podcast
Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?
Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
Pretraining progress is mostly coming from data
Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
The rise and fall of agent civilizations
The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028
Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?
8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning
Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x
Why compute might get 10x+ more expensive in coming years
Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity
The Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI
Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math
The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job
The data black hole at the center of AI
Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up
The mistake of conflating intelligence and power
Notes on pretraining parallelisms and failed training runs.
RLVR might be disproportionately bad at science
Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
Blog prize for the big questions about AI
Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat
Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute
The most important question nobody's asking about AI
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”