Dwarkesh Patel is the host of the Dwarkesh Podcast, where he interviews intellectuals, scientists, historians, economists, and founders about their big ideas. He does deep research and asks great questions. Past podcast guests include billionaire entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen, economist and polymath Tyler Cowen, and OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever. Dwarkesh has been recommended by Jeff Bezos, Paul Graham, and me.

Dwarkesh Podcast (and transcripts): https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/podcast

Dwarkesh Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DwarkeshPatel

Dwarkesh Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4JH4tybY1zX6e5hjCwU6gF

Dwarkesh Podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dwarkesh-podcast/id1516093381

Dwarkesh’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp

Dwarkesh’s Blog: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/s/writing


PODCAST LINKS:

Video Transcript: https://www.theojaffee.com/p/9-dwarkesh-patel

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1IJRtB8FP4Cnq8lWuuCdvW?si=eba62a72e6234efb

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/theo-jaffee-podcast/id1699912677

RSS: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/989123/s/75569/private/129f6344-c459-4581-a9da-dc331677c2f6.rss

Playlist of all episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVN8-zhbMh9YnOGVRT9m0xzqTNGD_sujj

My Twitter: https://x.com/theojaffee

My Substack: https://www.theojaffee.com


CHAPTERS:
Intro (0:00)
OpenAI drama (0:50)
Learning methods (4:10)
Growing the podcast (7:38)
Improving the podcast (17:03)
Contra Marc Andreessen on AI risk (24:18)
How will AI affect podcasts? (26:31)
AI alignment (32:08)
Dwarkesh’s guests (38:04)
Is Eliezer Yudkowsky right? (41:58)
More on the Dwarkesh Podcast (46:01)
Other great podcasts (50:06)
Nanobots, foom, and doom (56:01)
Great Twitter poasters (1:01:59)
Rationalism and other factions (1:05:44)
Why hasn’t Marxism died? (1:15:27)
Where to allocate talent (1:18:51)
Sam Bankman-Fried (1:22:22)
Why is Elon Musk so successful? (1:29:07)
How relevant is human talent with AGI soon? (1:35:07)
Is government actually broken? (1:36:35)
How should we fix Congress? (1:40:50)
Dwarkesh’s favorite part of podcasting (1:46:46)

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