“It’d be like going from not even having o1, just having non-reasoning models, to Astra in a single year. So I do think things go faster.”
OpenAI researcher on agent swarms & recursive self-improvement · Dwarkesh Podcast
Zero to One on Dwarkesh Podcast
Zero to One was mentioned 21 times on Dwarkesh Podcast in 21 episodes.
“supervised learning dataset of expert human play. Later, they removed this restriction by having the model teach itself how to play well. I find it super nice for implementation,”
What rebuilding AlphaGo teaches us about self-play, RL, and future of LLMs - Eric Jang · Dwarkesh Podcast
“to get the entire supply chain to even deliver the capacity they're going to make this year. When you go talk to Anthropic, they're like, "We're short of TPUs, we're short”
Dylan Patel — The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI compute · Dwarkesh Podcast
“It wasn't that expensive to develop. Even though it sounds expensive, it's actually very capital efficient in how it runs. Whereas now you're going to need more capital than”
Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space” · Dwarkesh Podcast
“On the same wafer? Because it's all silicon? It's all silicon all the way down. What's silicon made of? It's an element. It's chemically in the crust. There's no shortage of it.”
China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer · Dwarkesh Podcast
“sector bails out the private sector. So, the government, we’re not going to default. We're going to inflate, or do financial repression, or baby steps austerity or something.”
"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff · Dwarkesh Podcast
“and being like, “my goal is success, I have to pretend to want to do all of these moral things while the humans are watching me”. That’s what happens in our story. And then at the very end,”
AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · Dwarkesh Podcast
“I mean literal paperclips are a human concept. I don't think any old human concept will do for the thing we're excited about. The stuff that I would be more interested in the possibility of”
Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover · Dwarkesh Podcast
“Today, I'm chatting with Patrick McKenzie. He is known for many things on the Internet. He's known as patio11. Most recently he ran VaccinateCA, which probably saved a high four-figure number”
Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan · Dwarkesh Podcast
“and not the equilibriums themselves. And it seemed related to the Peter Thiel point in zero to one. That monopoly is when you have interesting things happen because when there’s just competitive”
Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth · Dwarkesh Podcast
“because Tyler Cowen has an example of this in one of his books: that if U.S. economic growth rates had been 1% lower every year from 1890 to the 20th century, the U.S. per capita”
Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake · Dwarkesh Podcast
“day. In the 2000s, before the deep learning revolution, I might have said 10% and part of it was that I expected there would be a lot more time for efforts to build movements,”
Carl Shulman (Pt 2) — AI Takeover, bio & cyber attacks, detecting deception, & humanity's far future · Dwarkesh Podcast
“the long run acceleration of human population and economic growth. Developing new technologies allowed the human population to expand and humans to occupy new habitats and new areas”
Carl Shulman (Pt 1) — Intelligence explosion, primate evolution, robot doublings, & alignment · Dwarkesh Podcast
“this sort of field of alignment? That would be a pleasant fantasy for people who cannot abide the notion that history depends on”
Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence, SciFi, & rationality · Dwarkesh Podcast
“in the book you you're very concerned about fertility because it seems your”
Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Effective Altruism, History, & Technology · Dwarkesh Podcast
“that the straw student reading of zero to one is that you shouldn't start a”
Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection · Dwarkesh Podcast
“you're bringing up Pissing Up America. I think God So, we we picked this war”
Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World · Dwarkesh Podcast
“in the book is he said it's like a silicon valley versus wall street thing”
Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia · Dwarkesh Podcast
“and confident which is the way the torah you know twenty characterizes a society”
Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty | The Lunar Society #10 · Dwarkesh Podcast
“and we also already have like go to universities we have a history of”
Caleb Watney - America's Innovation Engine · Dwarkesh Podcast
“if that makes sense um so peter thiel has uh often says that uh it's”
Robin Hanson - The Long View and The Elephant in the Brain · Dwarkesh Podcast
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