Dwarkesh Patel

The benchmark where AIs have to lie to win

AIs are now good enough to run a…

What I learned about power from LBJ and Robert Moses

Preparing to interview Robert Caro.

He's the Most Influential Podcaster in Silicon Valley. ...

Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?

Fall of the Incas & Aztecs.

Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement

“We never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the…

Pretraining progress is mostly coming from data

Breaking down 6 years of pretraining progress into data vs model…

Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face

"This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get."

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain…

Why 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.

The 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…