FeedCity: Dwarkesh Podcast

Dwarkesh Podcast
10 Jul 16:51 • Dwarkesh Patel

Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratch

And why black holes are the ultimate power plants.

Dwarkesh Podcast
01 Jul 22:13 • Dwarkesh Patel

The Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI

Abolishing pandemics/ Getting out of the way of AI automation/ Learning from Honk Kong MTR's business model

Dwarkesh Podcast
30 Jun 15:53 • Dwarkesh Patel

Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math

Watch now (94 mins) | Math is where we’ll see superintelligence first. What will it look like?

Dwarkesh Podcast
26 Jun 15:51 • Dwarkesh Patel

The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job

Labs are throwing away the most valuable data.

Dwarkesh Podcast
19 Jun 16:45 • Dwarkesh Patel

The data black hole at the center of AI

"We see these AIs as a galaxy glittering with capabilities, but at their center, invisible to the naked eye, holding all the constellations together, is an unimaginably massive black hole of data."

Dwarkesh Podcast
16 Jun 17:27 • Dwarkesh Patel

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

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

Dwarkesh Podcast
04 Jun 16:14 • Dwarkesh Patel

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.”

Dwarkesh Podcast
22 May 15:38 • Dwarkesh Patel

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.

Dwarkesh Podcast
16 May 19:04 • Dwarkesh Patel

The mistake of conflating intelligence and power

If your definition of intelligence is "the ability to achieve your goals across a wide variety of domains", then Stalin was the most intelligent person who ever lived.

Dwarkesh Podcast
16 May 19:01 • Dwarkesh Patel

Notes on pretraining parallelisms and failed training runs.

Deeply researched interviews

Dwarkesh Podcast
16 May 19:00 • Dwarkesh Patel

RLVR might be disproportionately bad at science

the verification loop for theories can be on the order of decades and centuries, and even then we know today as the better theory can often actually make worse predictions