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What Dwarkesh Patel Says About Science
17 episodes about science
Deeply researched interviews
Key Insights on Science
Dr. Christina Maher combines software engineering, finance, and neuroscience backgrounds to develop brain-computer interfaces for enhanced human communication
- Free Will research by Sam Harris and Behave by Robert Sapolsky suggest humans may lack true Free Will due to subconscious brain processes
- Personalized medicine will enable disease prediction and treatment before symptoms appear, addressing individual brain chemistry differences
- Your nervous system chooses your partners before your mind does - chaos can feel like chemistry
- The Citrini article caused market panic that reminded Haydek of 1984 - 'just science fiction' creating Orwellian-style fear
- The Hot Hand was released March 10, 2020 — the book party was Tuesday, and 'the world shut down on Wednesday,' making for a uniquely strange launch experience.
- The 'learning budget' strategy involves dedicating 1-10% of monthly income to skill acquisition and business experiments
- Tracy Letts lived through 1976 at age 11, getting a Honda 50 dirt bike for his bicentennial birthday while his parents ran a disastrous grocery store experiment
Episodes
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
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