Podcast

Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time

"He begged to work for the regime that tortured him."

17 hrs ago • Dwarkesh Patel

2:08:20

Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?

“One robot now turns into many robots next year, but the number of ballerinas is the same.”

Jun 4 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:16:08

Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up

Working up from basic logic gates to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do.

May 22 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:20:30

Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch

AlphaGo is still the cleanest worked example of the primitives of intelligence: search, learning from experience, and self-play.

May 15 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:37:29

David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution

"Instead of being quiescent, natural selection is everywhere."

May 8 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:13:19

Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served

It's shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are doing from a handful of equations and a blackboard

Apr 29 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:13:50

Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat

“If our next several years are a trillion dollars in scale, we have the supply chain to do it"

Apr 15 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:43:12

Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses

The true story of Einstein, Newton, and Darwin

Apr 7 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:03:03

Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery

“And what those stories teach us about how AI will revolutionize math”

Mar 20 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:23:44

Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute

Plus, why an H100 is worth more today than 3 years ago

Mar 13 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:30:44

The most important question nobody's asking about AI

“Preface to the highest stakes negotiations in history.”

Mar 11 • Dwarkesh Patel

24:38

Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer

Ambassador visiting Renaissance Florence: “Where am I? None of this has existed for a thousand years."

Mar 6 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:02:19

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