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Dwarkesh Podcast covering Reinforcement Learning (RL), AI Agents, Geopolitics, and Semiconductors. Notable guests include Adam Brown (Lead, BlueShift at Google DeepMind), Grant Sanderson (Creator, 3Blue1Brown), Ada Palmer (Science fiction author, composer, historian at the University of Chicago), and Sarah Paine (Professor, U.S. Naval War College). Episodes span from Feb 2025 to Jul 2026.

39episodes
1,262total claims
12topics covered
39 episodes
Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratch – Adam Brown
Jul 10, 2026 · WITH Adam Brown

The episode provides a detailed yet accessible explanation of Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contrasting it with Newtonian physics and highlighting its core concept of spacetime cu...

General RelativitySpecial RelativityAlbert EinsteinNewtonian Physics+14 more
Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) – AI and the future of math
Jun 30, 2026 · WITH Grant Sanderson

AI has achieved superhuman performance in specific areas of advanced mathematics, such as International Math Olympiad (IMO) geometry, but this is viewed as another narrow benchmark rather than a si...

AI in mathematicsInternational Math Olympiad (IMO)AGI benchmarksScientific discovery+11 more
What does the next training paradigm look like?
Jun 26, 2026

The current AI training paradigm, Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Reward (RLVR), is limited because it struggles with complex, real-world domains that cannot be easily simulated or 'ground o...

Reinforcement Learning (RL)Continual LearningSample EfficiencyAGI+11 more
The data black hole at the center of AI
Jun 19, 2026
How Machiavelli's Florence bargained with Cesare Borgia for survival – Ada Palmer
Jun 16, 2026
Sarah Paine - Why Russia and China can't escape geography
Jun 9, 2026
What remains scarce after AGI? – Alex Imas and Phil Trammell
Jun 4, 2026
Chip design from the bottom up – Reiner Pope
May 22, 2026
Building AlphaGo from scratch – Eric Jang
May 15, 2026
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
May 8, 2026
The math behind how LLMs are trained and served – Reiner Pope
Apr 29, 2026
Jensen Huang's Most Revealing Interview Ever — Full Breakdown (Dwarkesh Podcast)
Apr 16, 2026
Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat
Apr 15, 2026
Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than us
Apr 7, 2026
Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AI
Mar 20, 2026
Dylan Patel — The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI compute
Mar 13, 2026
The most important question nobody's asking about AI.
Mar 11, 2026
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Mar 6, 2026
Adam Marblestone – AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
Feb 25, 2026
Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential”
Feb 13, 2026
What are we scaling?
Dec 23, 2025
Sarah Paine – Why Russia Lost the Cold War
Dec 19, 2025
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
Nov 25, 2025
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI
Nov 12, 2025
Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise
Oct 31, 2025
Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”
Oct 17, 2025
“I find it almost disturbing that the universe favors life this strongly” – Nick Lane
Oct 10, 2025
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
Sep 26, 2025
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
Sep 12, 2025
China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer
Aug 15, 2025
Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard
Aug 7, 2025
Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber
Jun 19, 2025
"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff
Jun 12, 2025
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih
May 29, 2025
Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
May 22, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months
Apr 29, 2025
AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu
Apr 17, 2025
AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo
Apr 3, 2025
Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough
Feb 19, 2025

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