Dwarkesh Podcast
Episodes
Sarah Paine – Why Russia Lost the Cold War
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah gives a “tour of the arguments” on what ultimately led to the Soviet Union’s collapse, diving into the role of the US, the Sino-Soviet bor...
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ilya & I discuss SSI’s strategy, the problems with pre-training, how to improve the generalization of AI models, and how to ensure AGI goes well.Wat...
Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As part of this interview, Satya Nadella gave Dylan Patel (founder of SemiAnalysis) and me an exclusive first-look at their brand-new Fairwater 2 data...
Sarah Paine – How Russia sabotaged China's rise
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this lecture, military historian Sarah Paine explains how Russia—and specifically Stalin—completely derailed China’s rise, slowing them down ...
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Andrej Karpathy episode.During this interview, Andrej explains why reinforcement learning is terrible (but everything else is much worse), why AGI...
Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Lane has some pretty wild ideas about the evolution of life.He thinks early life was continuous with the spontaneous chemistry of undersea hydrot...
Some thoughts on the Sutton interview
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I have a much better understanding of Sutton’s perspective now. I wanted to reflect on it a bit.(00:00:00) - The steelman(00:02:42) - TLDR of my cur...
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Sutton is the father of reinforcement learning, winner of the 2024 Turing Award, and author of The Bitter Lesson. And he thinks LLMs are a dea...
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sergey Levine, one of the world’s top robotics researchers and co-founder of Physical Intelligence, thinks we’re on the cusp of a “self-improvem...
How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this lecture, military historian Sarah Paine explains how Britain used sea control, peripheral campaigns, and alliances to defeat Nazi Germany duri...
Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jacob Kimmel thinks he can find the transcription factors to reverse aging. We do a deep dive on why this might be plausible and why evolution hasn’...
China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How will we feed the 100s of GWs of extra energy demand that AI will create over the coming decade? On this episode, Casey Handmer (Caltech PhD, forme...
Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A deep dive with Lewis Bollard, who leads Open Philanthropy’s strategy for Farmed Animal Welfare, on the surprising economics of the meat industry.W...
Sarah Paine: How Imperial Japan Defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After my last lecture series with Sarah Paine ended, I still had so many questions. I knew we’d only scratched the surface of Sarah’s scholarship,...
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin Became the Most Powerful Dictator in History
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Stephen Kotkin episode. Kotkin is arguably the world’s foremost expert on Joseph Stalin and has written a massive 2-volume biography on him (wit...
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve had a lot of discussions on my podcast where we haggle out timelines to AGI. Some guests think it’s 20 years away - others 2 years. Here’s ...
George Church — A Billion Years of Evolution in a Single Afternoon
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
George Church is the godfather of modern synthetic biology and has been involved with basically every major biotech breakthrough in the last few decad...
China’s Manufacturing Dominance: State Directives & Ruthless Competition — Arthur Kroeber
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Arthur Kroeber is a leading researcher on Chinese tech and macro, a founding partner at Gavekal Dragonomics, and author of "China's Economy: What Ever...
“China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin.” — Ken Rogoff
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Rogoff is the former chief economist of the IMF, a professor of Economics at Harvard, and author of the newly released Our Dollar, Your Problem an...
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, I chat with Victor Shih about all things China. We discuss China’s massive local debt crisis, the CCP’s views on AI, what happens...
Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New episode with my good friends Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken. Sholto focuses on scaling RL and Trenton researches mechanistic interpretability, b...
What Will Automated Firms Look Like?
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Based on my essay about AI firms.Huge thanks to Petr and his team for bringing this to life!Watch on YouTube.Thanks to Google for sponsoring. We used ...
Mark Zuckerberg — AI Will Write Most Meta Code in 18 Months
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zuck on:* Llama 4, benchmark gaming* Intelligence explosion, business models for AGI* DeepSeek/China, export controls, & Trump* Orion glasses, AI rela...
Why Rome Actually Fell: Plagues, Slavery, & Ice Age — Kyle Harper
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
800 years before the Black Death, the very same bacteria ravaged Rome, killing 60%+ of the population in many areas.Also, back-to-back volcanic erupti...
AGI is Still 30 Years Away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu have 2045+ timelines, think the whole "alignment" framing is wrong, don't think an intelligence explosion is plausible, ...
2027 Intelligence Explosion: Month-by-Month Model — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Scott and Daniel break down every month from now until the 2027 intelligence explosion.Scott Alexander is author of the highly influential blogs Slate...
AMA ft. Sholto & Trenton: New Book, Career Advice Given AGI, How I'd Start From Scratch
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I recorded an AMA! I had a blast chatting with my friends Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas. We discussed my new book, career advice given AGI, how I...
Joseph Henrich – Why Humans Survived and Smarter Species Didn't
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Humans have not succeeded because of our raw intelligence.Marooned European explorers regularly starved to death in areas where foragers thrived for 1...
Notes on China
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’m so excited with how this visualization of Notes on China turned out. Petr, thank you for such beautiful watercolor artwork. More to come!Watch o...
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Satya Nadella on: Why he doesn’t believe in AGI but does believe in 10% economic growth; Microsoft’s new topological qubit breakthrough and gaming...
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer – 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week I welcome on the show two of the most important technologists ever, in any field.Jeff Dean is Google's Chief Scientist, and through 25 years...
Sarah Paine Episode 3: How Mao Conquered China
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Third and final episode in the Paine trilogy!Chinese history is full of warlords constantly challenging the capital. How could Mao not only stay in po...
Sarah Paine Episode 2: Why Japan Lost (Lecture & Interview)
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second episode in the trilogy of a lectures by Professor Sarah Paine of the Naval War College.In this second episode, Prof Paine dissects ...
Sarah Paine Episode 1: The War For India (Lecture & Interview)
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’m thrilled to launch a new trilogy of double episodes: a lecture series by Professor Sarah Paine of the Naval War College, each followed by a deep...
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I interviewed Tyler Cowen at the Progress Conference 2024. As always, I had a blast. This is my fourth interview with him – and yet I’m always hea...
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Brown is a founder and lead of BlueShift with is cracking maths and reasoning at Google DeepMind and a theoretical physicist at Stanford.We discu...
Gwern Branwen - How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gwern is a pseudonymous researcher and writer. He was one of the first people to see LLM scaling coming. If you've read his blog, you know he's one of...
Dylan Patel & Jon (Asianometry) – How the Semiconductor Industry Actually Works
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A bonanza on the semiconductor industry and hardware scaling to AGI by the end of the decade.Dylan Patel runs Semianalysis, the leading publication an...
Daniel Yergin – Oil Explains the Entire 20th Century
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Unless you understand the history of oil, you cannot understand the rise of America, WW1, WW2, secular stagnation, the Middle East, Ukraine, how Xi an...
David Reich - How One Small Tribe Conquered the World 70,000 Years Ago
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I had no idea how wild human history was before chatting with the geneticist of ancient DNA David Reich.Human history has been again and again a story...
Joe Carlsmith - Otherness and control in the age of AGI
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chatted with Joe Carlsmith about whether we can trust power/techno-capital, how to not end up like Stalin in our urge to control the future, gentlenes...
Patrick McKenzie - How a Discord Server Saved Thousands of Lives
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I talked with Patrick McKenzie (known online as patio11) about how a small team he ran over a Discord server got vaccines into Americans' arms: A stor...
Tony Blair - Life of a PM, The Deep State, Lee Kuan Yew, & AI's 1914 Moment
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I chatted with Tony Blair about:- What he learned from Lee Kuan Yew- Intelligence agencies track record on Iraq & Ukraine- What he tells the dozens of...
Francois Chollet, Mike Knoop - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here is my conversation with Francois Chollet and Mike Knoop on the $1 million ARC-AGI Prize they're launching today.I did a bunch of socratic grillin...
Leopold Aschenbrenner - China/US Super Intelligence Race, 2027 AGI, & The Return of History
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chatted with my friend Leopold Aschenbrenner on the trillion dollar nationalized cluster, CCP espionage at AI labs, how unhobblings and scaling can le...
John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) - Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chatted with John Schulman (cofounded OpenAI and led ChatGPT creation) on how posttraining tames the shoggoth, and the nature of the progress to come....
Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Zuckerberg on:- Llama 3- open sourcing towards AGI- custom silicon, synthetic data, & energy constraints on scaling- Caesar Augustus, intelligenc...
Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's Mind
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 cont...
Demis Hassabis - Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, Rogue Nations Threat
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here is my episode with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMindWe discuss:* Why scaling is an artform* Adding search, planning, & AlphaZero type traini...
Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) - Craft, Beauty, & The Future of Payments
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss:* what it takes to process $1 trillion/year* how to build multi-decade APIs, companies, and relationships* what's next for Stripe (increasi...
Tyler Cowen - Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, Animal Spirits, Anarchy, & Growth
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration]
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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.co...
Will scaling work? [Narration]
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a narration of my blog post, Will scaling work?. You read the full post here: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-scaling-workListen on Apple...
Jung Chang - Living through Cultural Revolution and the Crimes of Mao
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Unkno...
Andrew Roberts - SV's Napoleon Cult, Why Hitler Lost WW2, Churchill as Applied Historian
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Roberts is the world's best biographer and one of the leading historians of our time.We discussed* Churchill the applied historian,* Napoleon t...
Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Paul Christiano - Preventing an AI Takeover
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Christiano is the world’s leading AI safety researcher. My full episode with him is out!We discuss:- Does he regret inventing RLHF, and is alig...
Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) - 2028 AGI, New Architectures, Aligning Superhuman Models
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I had a lot of fun chatting with Shane Legg - Founder and Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind!We discuss:* Why he expects AGI around 2028* How to ali...
Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) - Past, Present, & Future of Mathematics
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I had a lot of fun chatting with Grant Sanderson (who runs the excellent 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel) about:- Whether advanced math requires AGI- What...
Sarah C. M. Paine - WW2, Taiwan, Ukraine, & Maritime vs Continental Powers
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I learned so much from Sarah Paine, Professor of History and Strategy at the Naval War College.We discuss:- how continental vs maritime powers think a...
Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) - Scaling, Alignment, & AI Progress
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here is my conversation with Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic.Dario is hilarious and has fascinating takes on what these models are doing, why they scal...
Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, & Why Books Don’t Work
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks ago, I sat beside Andy Matuschak to record how he reads a textbook.Even though my own job is to learn things, I was shocked with how much ...
Carl Shulman (Pt 2) - AI Takeover, Bio & Cyber Attacks, Detecting Deception, & Humanity's Far Future
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The second half of my 7 hour conversation with Carl Shulman is out!My favorite part! And the one that had the biggest impact on my worldview.Here, Car...
Carl Shulman (Pt 1) - Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In terms of the depth and range of topics, this episode is the best I’ve done.No part of my worldview is the same after talking with Carl Shulman. H...
Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It was a tremendous honor & pleasure to interview Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic BombWe discuss- similariti...
Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For 4 hours, I tried to come up reasons for why AI might not kill us all, and Eliezer Yudkowsky explained why I was wrong.We also discuss his call to ...
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Future Models, Spies, Microsoft, Taiwan, & Enlightenment
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I went over to the OpenAI offices in San Fransisco to ask the Chief Scientist and cofounder of OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, about:* time to AGI* leaks and ...
Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It is said that the two greatest problems of history are: how to account for the rise of Rome, and how to account for her fall. If so, then the volcan...
Brett Harrison - FTX US Former President & HFT Veteran Speaks Out
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I flew out to Chicago to interview Brett Harrison, who is the former President of FTX US President and founder of Architect.In his first longform inte...
Marc Andreessen - AI, Crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, Regrets, Vulnerabilities, & Managerial Revolution
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My podcast with the brilliant Marc Andreessen is out!We discuss:* how AI will revolutionize software* whether NFTs are useless, & whether he should be...
Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less Democracy
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Garett Jones is an economist at George Mason University and the author of The Cultural Transplant, Hive Mind, and 10% Less Democracy.This episode was ...
Lars Doucet - Progress, Poverty, Georgism, & Why Rent is Too Damn High
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of my best episodes ever. Lars Doucet is the author of Land is a Big Deal, a book about Georgism which has been praised by Vitalik Buterin, Scott ...
Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important Century
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Holden Karnofsky is the co-CEO of Open Philanthropy and co-founder of GiveWell. He is also the author of one of the most interesting blogs on the inte...
Bethany McLean - Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, Frauds, & Visionaries
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This was one of my favorite episodes ever.Bethany McLean was the first reporter to question Enron’s earnings, and she has written some of the best f...
Nadia Asparouhova - Tech Elites, Democracy, Open Source, & Philanthropy
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Asparouhova is currently researching what the new tech elite will look like at nadia.xyz. She is also the author of Working in Public: The Makin...
Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps the most interesting episode so far.Byrne Hobart writes at thediff.co, analyzing inflections in finance and tech.He explains:* What happened a...
Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Edward Glaeser is the chair of the Harvard department of economics, and the author of the best books and papers about cities (including Survival of th...
Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I had a fascinating discussion about Robert Moses and The Power Broker with Professor Kenneth T. Jackson.He's the pre-eminent historian on NYC and aut...
Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was a pleasure to welcome Brian Potter on the podcast! Brian is the author of the excellent Construction Physics blog, where he discusses why the c...
Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was a fantastic pleasure to welcome Bryan Caplan back for a third time on the podcast! His most recent book is Don't Be a Feminist: Essays on Genui...
Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was my great pleasure to speak once again to Tyler Cowen. His most recent book is Talent, How to Find Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Across the...
Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Charles C. Mann is the author of three of my favorite history books: 1491. 1493, and The Wizard and the Prophet. We discuss:* why Native American civ...
Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Austin Vernon is an engineer working on a new method for carbon capture, and he has one of the most interesting blogs on the internet, where he writes...
Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Hsu is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University and cofounder of the company Genomic Prediction.We go deep into the weeds...
Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Will MacAskill is one of the founders of the Effective Altruist movement and the author of the upcoming book, What We Owe The Future.We talk about imp...
Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Carlsmith is a senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy and a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Oxford.We discuss utopi...
Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fin Moorhouse is a Research Scholar and assistant to Toby Ord at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute. He co-hosts the Hear This Idea podc...
Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Mikaberidze is Professor of History at Louisiana State University and the author of The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History.He explains the gl...
Sam Bankman-Fried - Crypto, Altruism, and Leadership
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I flew to the Bahamas to interview Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX! He talks about FTX’s plan to infiltrate traditional finance, giving $100m this...
Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Agustin Lebron began his career as a trader and researcher at Jane Street Capital, one of the largest market-making firms in the world. He currently r...
Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ananyo Bhattacharya is the author of The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann. He is a science writer who has worked at the Eco...
Stephen Grugett (Manifold Markets Founder) - Predictions Markets & Revolutionizing Governance
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Grugett is a cofounder of Manifold Markets, where anyone can create a prediction market. We discuss how prediction markets can change how coun...
Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talk to Pradyu Prasad (blogger and podcaster) about the book "Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan" by Herbert P. Bix. We also di...
Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Razib Khan is a writer, geneticist, and blogger with an interest in history, genetics, culture, and evolutionary psychology.Watch on YouTube. Listen o...
Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia
16 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jimmy Soni is the author of The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley.Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcas...
Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I interview the economist Bryan Caplan about his new book, Labor Econ Versus the World, and many other related topics.Bryan Caplan is a Professor of E...
Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Hanania is the President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology and the author of Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of G...
David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David Deutsch is the founder of the field of quantum computing and the author The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality.Read me contra David...
Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Byrne Hobart writes The Diff, a newsletter about inflections in finance and technology with 24,000+ subscribers. Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple P...
David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Friedman is a famous anarcho-capitalist economist and legal scholar. Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast...