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
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)