Dwarkesh Podcast

POD
Deeply researched interviews.
Analyzed Episodes
34
2.5/month
Latest Episode
8/21/2025
16 days ago
Alpha Score
Medium
Avg 5.2 insights/ep

Recent episodes

TitleRelease DateInsights
Why evolution designed us to die fast, & how we can change that – Jacob Kimmel8/21/20254
China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? – Casey Handmer8/15/20255
It May Be Impossible to Outcompete Factory Farming – Lewis Bollard8/7/20257
Sarah Paine: How Imperial Japan Crushed Tsarist Russia & Qing China7/25/20253
Stephen Kotkin — How Do We Explain Stalin?7/10/20254
Godfather of Synthetic Bio on De-Aging, De-Extinction, & Weaponized Mirror Life — George Church6/26/20255
China’s Manufacturing Dominance: State Directives & Ruthless Competition —Arthur Kroeber6/19/20256
“China’s digging out of a crisis. But America’s luck is wearing thin.” — Ken Rogoff6/12/20255
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner6/2/20255
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih5/29/20255
How Does Claude 4 Think? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken5/22/20258
The Last Human CEO5/1/20252
Mark Zuckerberg – Llama 4, DeepSeek, Trump, AI Friends, & Race to AGI4/29/20255
Mark Zuckerberg – Meta's AGI Plan4/29/20255
Why Rome Actually Fell: Plagues, Slavery, & Ice Age — Kyle Harper4/24/20252
AGI is Still 30 Years Away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu4/17/20250
2027 Intelligence Explosion: Month-by-Month Model — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo4/3/20250
AMA ft. Sholto & Trenton: New Book, Career Advice Given AGI, How I'd Start From Scratch3/25/20254
Joseph Henrich – Why Humans Survived and Smarter Species Didn't3/12/20258
Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution3/12/20253
Notes on China3/5/20255
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough2/19/20256
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer2/12/20255
Sarah Paine Episode 3: How Mao Conquered China1/30/20252
Sarah Paine Episode 2: Why Japan Lost (Lecture & Interview)1/23/20250
Sarah Paine Episode 1: The War For India (Lecture & Interview)1/16/20255
Tyler Cowen - The #1 Bottleneck to AI progress Are Humans1/9/20253
I'm hiring!12/27/20244
Adam Brown – Ultimate Fate of The Universe (And How We Can Change It)12/26/20246
Gwern Branwen - How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory11/13/20244
Dylan Patel & Jon (Asianometry) – How the Semiconductor Industry Works10/2/202411
Dylan Patel & Jon (Asianometry) – How the Semiconductor Industry Actually Works10/2/20248
@Asianometry & Dylan Patel — How the semiconductor industry actually works10/2/202412
Daniel Yergin – Oil Explains the Entire 20th Century9/18/20246
David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago8/29/20241
Joe Carlsmith - Otherness and control in the age of AGI8/22/20243
Patrick McKenzie - How a Discord Server Saved Thousands of Lives7/24/20249