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Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
The key question in this conversation is, how do we recognize scientific progress?It's especially relevant for closing the RL verification for scient…
7 hours ago
Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
We begin the episode with the absolutely ingenious and surprising way in which Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion.
People sometimes say th…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute
Dylan Patel, founder of SemiAnalysis, provides a deep dive into the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute: logic, memory, and power.
And walks throu…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
The most important question nobody's asking about AI
Read the full essay here: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dow-anthropic
Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Anthropic vs The Pentagon
(00:04:16) - The overhangs of tyran…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Renaissance history is so much wilder and weirder than you would have expected. Very fun chatting with Ada Palmer (historian, novelist, and composer …
1 month ago
Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
Dario Amodei thinks we are just a few years away from AGI — or as he puts it, from having “a country of geniuses in a data center”. In this episode, …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
In this episode, John and I got to do a real deep-dive with Elon. We discuss the economics of orbital data centers, the difficulties of scaling power…
2 months ago
Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
Adam Marblestone is CEO of Convergent Research. He’s had a very interesting past life: he was a research scientist at Google Deepmind on their neuros…
3 months, 1 week ago
Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)
Read the essay here.
Timestamps
00:00:00 What are we scaling?
00:03:11 The value of human labor
00:05:04 Economic diffusion lag is cope00:06:34 Goal-post…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War
This is the final episode of the Sarah Paine lecture series, and it’s probably my favorite one. Sarah gives a “tour of the arguments” on what ultimat…
3 months, 2 weeks ago