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Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesAjeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get."
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Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesThe rise and fall of agent civilizations The OpenAI/Hugging Face attack, clearly explained
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesThe Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
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Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesDylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 "Every force is screeching towards centralization."
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Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesRyan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? A debate about recursive self-improvement.
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Dwarkesh PodcastVoices8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning Locking in AI safety regulation now is a mistake.
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Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesWhy smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x The end of cheap compute?
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesWhy compute might get 10x+ more expensive in coming years If a human-level software engineer that could run on an H100 equivalent, at current market rates for software engineers, that H100 should rent for over $250k a year. That’s 15x today’s spot price.
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Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesAdam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity And why black holes are the ultimate power plants.
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesThe Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI Abolishing pandemics/ Getting out of the way of AI automation/ Learning from Honk Kong MTR's business model
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Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesGrant Sanderson – AI and the future of math Watch now (94 mins) | Math is where we’ll see superintelligence first. What will it look like?
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Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesThe next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job Labs are throwing away the most valuable data.
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Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesThe data black hole at the center of AI "We see these AIs as a galaxy glittering with capabilities, but at their center, invisible to the naked eye, holding all the constellations together, is an unimaginably massive black hole of data."
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Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesAda Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time "He begged to work for the regime that tortured him."
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Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesAlex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI? “One robot now turns into many robots next year, but the number of ballerinas is the same.”
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Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesReiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up Working up from basic logic gates to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do.
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesThe mistake of conflating intelligence and power If your definition of intelligence is "the ability to achieve your goals across a wide variety of domains", then Stalin was the most intelligent person who ever lived.
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesNotes on pretraining parallelisms and failed training runs. Deeply researched interviews
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesRLVR might be disproportionately bad at science the verification loop for theories can be on the order of decades and centuries, and even then we know today as the better theory can often actually make worse predictions
Dwarkesh PodcastVoicesEric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch AlphaGo is still the cleanest worked example of the primitives of intelligence: search, learning from experience, and self-play.
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