Dwarkesh Podcast

The benchmark where AIs have to lie to win

What Robert Caro learned about power after studying it for 50 years

What I learned about power from LBJ and Robert Moses

What will computer chips look like in 2045?

Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?

Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement

AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement

Pretraining progress is mostly coming from data

Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face

The rise and fall of agent civilizations

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028

Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?

8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning

Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x

Why compute might get 10x+ more expensive in coming years

Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity

The Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI

Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math

The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job

The data black hole at the center of AI

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

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

Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up

The mistake of conflating intelligence and power