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Adam Marblestone – AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
The brain's secret sauce is its reward functions, not its architecture.
 • Dwarkesh Patel
1:49:53
Sarah Paine – Why Russia Lost the Cold War
Oil crisis, Sino-Soviet split, ethnic rebellions, and arms build-up
 • Dwarkesh Patel
1:54:54
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.”
 • Dwarkesh Patel
1:36:03
Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI
Plus a tour of Fairwater 2, the most powerful AI datacenter in the world
 • Dwarkesh Patel
1:27:47
Sarah Paine – How Russia sabotaged China's rise
Plus, where Russia and China go from here
 • Dwarkesh Patel
1:30:36
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”
 • Dwarkesh Patel
2:25:19
Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
Life is continuous with Earth’s geochemistry
 • Dwarkesh Patel
1:20:08
Some thoughts on the Sutton interview
I have a much better understanding of Sutton’s vision now
 • Dwarkesh Patel
11:39
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
Watch now (66 mins) | LLMs aren’t Bitter-Lesson-pilled
 • Dwarkesh Patel
1:06:21
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
Plus, how VLA models work, self-improvement from deployment, and China’s hardware advantage
 • Dwarkesh Patel
1:28:28
How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine
“The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril” – Winston Churchill
 • Dwarkesh Patel
1:35:17
Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel
Is the answer already in our genome?
 • Dwarkesh Patel
1:44:39
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