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What Dwarkesh Patel Says About Science
18 episodes about science
Deeply researched interviews
Key Insights on Science
"Mask up in between bites" on airplanes should have been the moment everyone realized COVID protocols were theater, not science - Adam
- Research proposal involves 25 cerebral palsy patients over five years to test replicability of the transformation method
- What to Make of a Life took Collins 12 years of research studying pairs of notable figures who faced similar 'cliff events' that forced life reconstruction
- Research shows perceived inequality drives political radicalization more than actual inequality, with social media amplifying wealth exposure effects
- Political efficacy research shows reducing polarization doesn't reduce violence support, but belief in democratic channels working does
- UBI proposals may backfire by confirming economic decline fears rather than addressing trajectory concerns, according to sacred values research
- OpenClaw research agent operates 24/7 to hunt for new AI use cases and categorize them as Primetime, Emerging, or Frontier
- AI models have crossed from creative parlor tricks into genuine reasoning, solving problems in medicine, law, and science that seemed impossible 18 months ago
Episodes
Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratch
The data black hole at the center of AI
Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat
Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution
Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI
David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
“I find it almost disturbing that the universe favors life this strongly” – Nick Lane
Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
Books on science
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