Podcast

Robert Caro – The master biographer reflects at 91

"A lot of the stuff that I cut out, it's tragic that no one knows it."

4 hrs ago • Dwarkesh Patel

1:01:09

What I learned about power from LBJ and Robert Moses

Preparing to interview Robert Caro.

Oct 29 • Dwarkesh Patel

24:42

What will computer chips look like in 2045?

What I learned from touring Intel’s most advanced fab and talking to its leadership.

Oct 22 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:09:00

Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?

Fall of the Incas & Aztecs.

Oct 1 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:37:23

Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement

“We never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI.”

Sep 17 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:20:09

AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement

“We're nowhere near the ceiling.”

Sep 11 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:37:01

Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face

"This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get."

Sep 1 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:20:32

The rise and fall of agent civilizations

The OpenAI/Hugging Face attack, clearly explained

Aug 31 • Dwarkesh Patel

24:40

Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028

"Every force is screeching towards centralization."

Aug 25 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:16:52

Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?

A debate about recursive self-improvement.

Aug 11 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:12:31

Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity

And why black holes are the ultimate power plants.

Jul 10 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:38:24

Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math

Math is where we’ll see superintelligence first. What will it look like?

Jun 30 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:33:39

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