Podcast Episodes

Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters

Mark Zuckerberg on:

- Llama 3

- open sourcing towards AGI

- custom silicon, synthetic data, & energy constraints on scaling

- Caesar Augustus, intelligence explosion, bioweapons, $10b models, & much more…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think

Had so much fun chatting with my good friends Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas on the podcast.

No way to summarize it, except: 

This is the best context dump out there on how LLMs are trained, what c…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold

Here is my episode with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind

We discuss:

* Why scaling is an artform

* Adding search, planning, & AlphaZero type training atop LLMs

* Making sure rogue nations can't ste…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave

We discuss:

* what it takes to process $1 trillion/year

* how to build multi-decade APIs, companies, and relationships

* what's next for Stripe (increasing the GDP of the internet is quite an open ended…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth

It was a great pleasure speaking with Tyler Cowen for the 3rd time.

We discussed GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter?, especially in the context of how the insights …

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration]

This is a narration of my blog post, Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro.

You read the full post here: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/lyndon-johnson

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spoti…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Will scaling work? [Narration]

This is a narration of my blog post, Will scaling work?.

You read the full post here: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-scaling-work

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine

A true honor to speak with Jung Chang.

She is the author of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (sold 15+ million copies worldwide) and Mao: The Unknown Story.

We discuss:

- what it was like growing up…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleon as startup founder

Andrew Roberts is the world's best biographer and one of the leading historians of our time.

We discussed

* Churchill the applied historian,

* Napoleon the startup founder,

* why Nazi ideology cost Hitle…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance

Here is my interview with Dominic Cummings on why Western governments are so dangerously broken, and how to fix them before an even more catastrophic crisis.

Dominic was Chief Advisor to the Prime Min…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago