# ![@dwarkeshpatel Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:youtube::UCXl4i9dYBrFOabk0xGmbkRA.png) @dwarkeshpatel Dwarkesh Patel

Dwarkesh Patel has been hosting and discussing various YouTube videos on his channel, featuring guests such as Sarah Paine, a historian and expert on geopolitics, and other notable researchers. The videos cover a wide range of topics, including World War II, the rise and fall of empires, and the impact of AI on society. Recently, his channel has featured discussions on the intersection of history, politics, and technology.

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Sarah C. M. Paine Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake I learned so much from Sarah Paine Professor of History and Strategy at the Naval War College. We discuss: * how continental vs maritime powers think and how this explains Xi & Putin's decisions * how a war with China over Taiwan would shake out and whether it could go nuclear * why the British Empire fell apart why China went communist how Hitler and Japan could have coordinated to win WW2 and whether Japanese occupation was good for Korea Taiwan and Manchuria * plus other lessons from WW2 Cold War and Sino-Japanese War * how"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YcVSgYz5SJ8)  2023-10-04T13:42Z 1.2M followers, 4.6M engagements


"The Real Reason Elon Bought Twitter"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=32h9CWjTPRQ)  2026-02-11T19:55Z 1.2M followers, 18K engagements


"Soviet Economy Ran on Fake Data - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FdI8iya1-cU)  2026-01-16T21:44Z 1.2M followers, 633.2K engagements


"The Real Reason Japan Surrendered in WWII"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YctS1Ze7PIU)  2024-05-19T04:00Z 1.2M followers, 10M engagements


"Dario Amodei We are near the end of the exponential Dario Amodei thinks we are just a few years away from a country of geniuses in a data center. In this episode we discuss what to make of the scaling hypothesis in the current RL regime how AI will diffuse throughout the economy whether Anthropic is underinvesting in compute given their timelines how frontier labs will ever make money whether regulation will destroy the boons of this technology US-China competition and much more.  * Transcript: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dario-amodei-2 * Apple Podcasts:"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=n1E9IZfvGMA)  2026-02-13T17:11Z 1.2M followers, 240.3K engagements


"Japanese Psyops - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-PnAhdm73xk)  2025-08-06T17:49Z 1.2M followers, 905.6K engagements


"Russia will have to pay reparations to Ukraine - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-g0J3-VtoCw)  2024-03-01T20:00Z 1.2M followers, 5.8M engagements


"How Jimmy Carter Undermined Communism - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1U9Fc6Ri3XM)  2026-01-27T20:11Z 1.2M followers, 332.7K engagements


"Why Germany Could Never Defeat Britain at Sea - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1iPIn896MCk)  2025-09-17T21:24Z 1.2M followers, 1.6M engagements


"Stalin Did What Nobody Else Could - Stephen Kotkin"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=25samH7q0iI)  2025-07-20T16:40Z 1.2M followers, 616.8K engagements


"How Invading Taiwan Would End China - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3ucy_f-lSyA)  2025-10-08T14:34Z 1.2M followers, 4.8M engagements


"Could Germany Have Won WWII - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4J7KR4JyekA)  2025-09-08T17:50Z 1.2M followers, 3.4M engagements


"Sarah Paine How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview) In this episode Prof Paine looks at Maoist China. How did Mao go from military genius to peacetime disaster How did the patriotic hero inflict historys worst catastrophe on China How can someone shrewd enough to win a civil war outnumbered [--] to [--] make decisions like "let's have peasants make iron in their backyards" and "let's kill all the birds" Lecture is followed by a Q&A with me. The first nationwide famine in Chinese history; Mao's lasting influence on other insurgencies; broken promises to Chinese minorities and the peasantry;"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4l3Sa8ImGFQ)  2025-01-30T16:33Z 1.2M followers, 2.2M engagements


"The Difference Between Chinese and US Leadership - Victor Shih"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=50SD_hWO_0A)  2025-09-01T18:33Z 1.2M followers, 4.1M engagements


"How China's Government Actually Works - Victor Shih"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7VsmVyv2q_U)  2025-06-05T17:00Z 1.2M followers, 1M engagements


"Satya Nadella How Microsoft thinks about AGI As part of this interview Satya Nadella gave me and Dylan Patel (founder of SemiAnalysis) an exclusive first-look at their brand-new Fairwater [--] datacenter. Microsoft is building multiple Fairwaters each of which has hundreds of thousands of GB200s & GB300s. Between all these interconnected buildings theyll have over [--] GW of total capacity. Just to give a frame of reference even a single one of these Fairwater buildings is more powerful than any other AI datacenter that currently exists. Satya then answered a bunch of questions about how Microsoft"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8-boBsWcr5A)  2025-11-12T17:02Z 1.2M followers, 311.9K engagements


"How Helmut Kohl Bought East Germany - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8zhjmdx9THE)  2026-01-30T21:12Z 1.2M followers, 535.6K engagements


"Can synthetic data unlock AI recursive self-improvement Mark Zuckerberg Full Episode: https://youtu.be/bc6uFV9CJGg Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mark-zuckerberg-llama-3-open-sourcing-%2410b-models-caeser/id1516093381i=1000652877239 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Lbsk4HtQZfkJ4dZjh7E7ksi=GOqj7hUdSaWSgi7ULWXjMA Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/mark-zuckerberg Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9TU0XjJqpOg)  2024-04-22T16:12Z 1.2M followers, 68.6K engagements


"Why the Soviet Union Became One Big Rust Belt - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=B9O50J9cJg0)  2025-12-23T18:26Z 1.2M followers, 1.4M engagements


"Elon Musk "In [--] months the cheapest place to put AI will be space In this episode John and I got to do a real deep-dive with Elon. We discuss the economics of orbital data centers the difficulties of scaling power on Earth what it would take to manufacture humanoids at high-volume in America xAIs business and alignment plans DOGE and much more.  * Transcript: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/elon-musk * Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dwarkesh-podcast/id1516093381i=1000748400389 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4nah0x1qQF2hxgJnv8PlmNsi=88be1f9b1a8b47b4 - Mercury"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BYXbuik3dgA)  2026-02-05T17:02Z 1.2M followers, 823.4K engagements


"The US Navy's Deadliest Mistake of WW2 - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bof9Ptve74Q)  2025-09-19T16:32Z 1.2M followers, 3.4M engagements


"Thatchers Worst Geopolitical Take - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DGjoluNeBuM)  2026-01-14T21:32Z 1.2M followers, 2.5M engagements


"The Soviet Union Was Too Big to NOT Fail Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EEEcrYCI1ZY)  2024-03-02T17:00Z 1.2M followers, 9.1M engagements


"Sarah Paine Why Russia Lost the Cold War This is the final episode of the Sarah Paine lecture series and its probably my favorite one. Sarah gives a tour of the arguments on what ultimately led to the Soviet Unions collapse diving into the role of the US the Sino-Soviet border conflict the oil bust ethnic rebellions and even the Roman Catholic Church. As she points out this is all particularly interesting as we find ourselves potentially at the beginning of another Cold War. As we wrap up this lecture series I want to take a moment to thank Sarah for doing this with me. It has been such a"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FdkpWrlR5zg)  2025-12-19T17:53Z 1.2M followers, 1.2M engagements


"Sarah Paine On Her Time In Moscow"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JJDmkX17NK8)  2025-12-17T20:30Z 1.2M followers, 1M engagements


"The Real Reason America Needs Robots - Elon Musk"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jh04seGsVuc)  2026-02-11T00:40Z 1.2M followers, 25.6K engagements


"Lee Kuan Yews [--] key decisions that made Singapore rich Tony Blair Full Episode: https://youtu.be/zSLWR3AbF3c Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/tony-blair Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tony-blair-life-of-a-pm-the-deep-state-lee-kuan/id1516093381i=1000660321397 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Cw5hF5dUyMFHdxXuSe3Wp Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ko9uQvR93kw)  2024-06-27T13:00Z 1.2M followers, 347.7K engagements


"Why Communists Won in China - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KyHPVtS7KkU)  2025-03-13T18:00Z 1.2M followers, 831.8K engagements


"Putin's Navy is Trapped in Its Own Waters - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LTXA_uKN2AE)  2025-10-09T14:45Z 1.2M followers, 6.1M engagements


"Sarah Paine The war for India (lecture & interview) How the rivalry between China and India reshaped Asia forever. Im thrilled to launch a trilogy of episodes: a lecture series by Professor Sarah Paine of the Naval War College each followed by a deep Q&A. In this first episode Prof Paine talks about key decisions by Khrushchev Mao Nehru Bhutto & Lyndon Johnson that shaped the whole dynamic of South Asia today. This is followed by a Q&A with me. Come for the spy bases shoestring nukes and insight about how great power politics impacts every region. Huge thanks to Substack for hosting this  *"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LbkO84MsmyM)  2025-01-16T21:28Z 1.2M followers, 4.9M engagements


"Why did other human species go extinct David Reich"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lr55ip_NPSs)  2024-10-06T17:18Z 1.2M followers, 1.8M engagements


"Americas Biggest Blind Spot - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MBNisUMFNiE)  2026-01-25T16:10Z 1.2M followers, 449.5K engagements


"Europe Needs to Start Paying for Its Defense - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MPtsVowqVrw)  2025-08-13T17:21Z 1.2M followers, 2.3M engagements


"Saddam Husseins Kuwait Gamble - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=N14O_UZ8hyU)  2026-01-17T22:41Z 1.2M followers, 2.1M engagements


"Hedge funds make billions from simple secrets From my conversation with Nat Friedman former CEO of GitHub. Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=qcvMjoJdck4 Or read the transcript here: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/nat-friedman Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3oBack9 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3S5g2YK"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NI1xrZ7NzBg)  2023-08-28T15:00Z 1.2M followers, 34.6K engagements


"Why The USSR Was Doomed From the Start - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=O5-sEbJU87c)  2026-01-29T17:30Z 1.2M followers, 268.1K engagements


""The Brilliance of Communism" Sarah Paine Full Episode: https://youtu.be/4l3Sa8ImGFQ Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/sarah-paine-china Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dwarkesh-podcast/id1516093381 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4JH4tybY1zX6e5hjCwU6gF Twitter: https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp From Episode [--] of my lecture series with Sarah Paine Enjoy"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OoSh7qJcZWA)  2025-02-01T17:45Z 1.2M followers, 649.5K engagements


"Human Rights Killed Communism - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Paf9wtTF-kk)  2025-12-31T15:45Z 1.2M followers, 1.3M engagements


"The Only Thing That Can Solve The US Debt - Elon Musk"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=R7gk1M48vCw)  2026-02-08T18:51Z 1.2M followers, 54.8K engagements


"Was FDR a Communist Sympathizer - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RpnTD-72IvI)  2024-08-08T23:00Z 1.2M followers, 3.1M engagements


"Communism is Overrated"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=S1-ROw6qp-k)  2024-04-07T18:37Z 1.2M followers, 1.5M engagements


"Sarah Paine How Hitler almost starved Britain In this lecture Sarah Paine explains how Britain used sea control peripheral campaigns and alliances to defeat Nazi Germany during WWII. She then applies this framework to today arguing that Russia and China are similarly constrained by their geography making them vulnerable in any conflict with maritime powers (like the U.S. and its allies).  * Transcript: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sarah-paine-ww2 * Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-hitler-almost-starved-britain-sarah-paine/id1516093381i=1000725163932 * Spotify:"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SdMgOXfSBQw)  2025-09-05T15:31Z 1.2M followers, 1.2M engagements


"We Thought We Were Losing the Cold War Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UeaiNjVRlyo)  2025-01-24T18:20Z 1.2M followers, 4.8M engagements


"David Reich How one small tribe conquered the world [-----] years ago I had no idea how wild human history was before chatting with the geneticist of ancient DNA David Reich. Human history has been again and again a story of one group figuring something out and then basically wiping everyone else out. From the tribe of 1k-10k modern humans who killed off all the other human species [-----] years ago to the Yamnaya steppe nomads [----] who killed off 90+% of (then) Europeans and also destroyed the Indus Valley Civilization. So much of what we thought we knew about human history is turning out to be"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uj6skZIxPuI)  2024-08-29T16:04Z 1.2M followers, 1.9M engagements


"The Fastest Way to AGI Demis Hassabis"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UktpwiM0MeI)  2024-03-03T17:00Z 1.2M followers, 34.3K engagements


"Soviet Union's Biggest Mistake - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UoCbLFBBbHY)  2026-01-20T18:14Z 1.2M followers, 835.3K engagements


"How Poland Recovered From Communism - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VQMHil4Dm0c)  2026-01-22T20:08Z 1.2M followers, 452.5K engagements


"Stephen Kotkin How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history Stephen Kotkin is arguably the worlds foremost expert on Joseph Stalin and has written a massive 2-volume biography about him (with a 3rd volume in the works). No other individual had more of a profound impact on the 20th century than Stalin. He held the power of life and death over every single person across [--] time zones and he killed tens of millions of people utterly consumed by an ideology aimed at building paradise on Earth. And he was one half of the biggest and most consequential military confrontation in history"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YMfd3EoHfPI)  2025-07-10T16:50Z 1.2M followers, 734K engagements


"The Day Russia Asked America Permission to Nuke China - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ygmr8BjUurk)  2026-01-12T16:37Z 1.2M followers, 881.5K engagements


"Sarah Paine Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview) The fatal flaw in Japan's military culture that cost them WWII. This is the second in a trilogy: a lecture series by Professor Sarah Paine of the Naval War College. In this episode Prof Paine dissects the ideas and economics behind Japanese imperialism. The oil shortage which caused the war; the culture of honor and death; the surprisingly chaotic chain of command. This is followed by a Q&A with me. Huge thanks to Substack for hosting this  * Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/sarah-paine-japan * Apple Podcasts:"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Znk5QINe01A)  2025-01-25T23:31Z 1.2M followers, 1.7M engagements


"What are we scaling Read the transcript here: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/thoughts-on-ai-progress-dec-2025 Toby Ord: How Well Does RL Scale https://www.tobyord.com/writing/how-well-does-rl-scale Beren Millidge: Most Algorithmic Progress is Data Progress by https://www.beren.io/2025-08-02-Most-Algorithmic-Progress-is-Data-Progress/ TIMESTAMPS 00:00:13 What are we scaling 00:03:11 The value of human labor 00:05:19 Economic diffusion lag is cope 00:06:36 Goal-post shifting is justified 00:08:23 RL scaling 00:09:33 Broadly deployed intelligence explosion"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_zgnSbu5GqE)  2025-12-23T20:28Z 1.2M followers, 103.7K engagements


"Why Vibe Coding Fails - Ilya Sutskever"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aIvHf8vsWBM)  2025-11-26T19:04Z 1.2M followers, 1.2M engagements


"Ilya Sutskever We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research Ilya & I discuss SSIs strategy the problems with pre-training how to improve the generalization of AI models and how to ensure AGI goes well.  * Transcript: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2 * Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dwarkesh-podcast/id1516093381i=1000738363711 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7naOOba8SwiUNobGz8mQELsi=39dd68f346ea4d49 - Gemini [--] is the first model Ive used that can find connections I havent anticipated. I recently wrote a blog post on RLs information"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aR20FWCCjAs)  2025-11-25T17:29Z 1.2M followers, 1.2M engagements


"How Reagan Bankrupted the Soviet Union - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dK1AJ48vJoE)  2026-01-28T16:57Z 1.2M followers, 605.9K engagements


"Americas Golden Moment - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dyZBf2Sz9XQ)  2026-01-07T16:26Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements


"How Long Will The Kim Dynasty Last - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fCgIqEdnXW4)  2026-01-21T18:48Z 1.2M followers, 823.8K engagements


"How Opium Killed The Manchu Dynasty - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fTCBnNE1jto)  2025-12-07T15:11Z 1.2M followers, 929K engagements


"Could China Have Avoided Communism - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ghH0IH1NDJc)  2025-02-02T18:45Z 1.2M followers, 2.2M engagements


"How America Actually Broke the Soviets - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=haCj-yomVeo)  2026-01-10T23:44Z 1.2M followers, 1.3M engagements


"The Problem With The Soviet Economy - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=m0WMoLgy6g4)  2026-01-09T18:33Z 1.2M followers, 676.4K engagements


"Gulf War vs Iraq War - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=o9OoiBBYxXI)  2025-02-12T17:45Z 1.2M followers, 4.7M engagements


"Why Mark Zuckerberg never sold Facebook"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oF2px4BnKJ0)  2024-04-19T05:30Z 1.2M followers, 1.8M engagements


"How hard is money laundering - Patrick McKenzie"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pvEArGKtWCo)  2024-07-24T14:35Z 1.2M followers, 18M engagements


"The Greatest Tragedy in Human History - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ql3f7omsIe4)  2025-02-14T19:30Z 1.2M followers, 6.9M engagements


"Mark Zuckerberg AI will write most Meta code in [--] months Zuck on: * Llama [--] benchmark gaming open vs source * Intelligence explosion business models for AGI * DeepSeek/China export controls & Trump * Orion glasses AI relationships and not getting reward-hacking by our tech  * Transcript: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-2 * Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dwarkesh-podcast/id1516093381i=1000705423020 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7Brv4vg9P8a8CNvAN5UsMvsi=d548a8aef39e4b65 * Scale is building the infrastructure for safer smarter AI. Scales Data"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rYXeQbTuVl0)  2025-04-29T16:07Z 1.2M followers, 358.8K engagements


"How Russia Missed the Plastics Revolution - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sf9fSzFuF_M)  2025-12-26T21:41Z 1.2M followers, 3M engagements


"Fascism - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tiuuIqdMCf8)  2025-10-07T16:28Z 1.2M followers, 2M engagements


"What Communists Won't Tell You Sarah Paine #history #coldwar #russia #ussr"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uv9B8JlPjP4)  2025-01-25T18:02Z 1.2M followers, 4.9M engagements


"How bad strategy caused millions of deaths in WWI - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vj4degVB76Y)  2024-07-23T03:00Z 1.2M followers, 5.1M engagements


"The Consequences of Xi's Death"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=woDFP1Hj9x4)  2025-05-29T17:01Z 1.2M followers, 9.6M engagements


"The Mistake That Ended the USSR - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gi2gY4E-gtE)  2026-01-11T17:40Z 1.2M followers, 1.9M engagements


"Some thoughts on the Sutton interview I have a much better understanding of Suttons perspective now. I wanted to reflect on it a bit. Read the transcript here: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/thoughts-on-sutton TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 The steelman 00:02:42 TLDR of my current thoughts 00:03:22 Imitation learning is continuous with and complementary to RL 00:08:26 Continual learning 00:10:31 Concluding thoughts"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=u3HBJVjpXuw)  2025-10-04T17:49Z 1.2M followers, 107.7K engagements


"The Biggest Problem With Starship - Elon Musk"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=x0kdiTECchE)  2026-02-09T17:45Z 1.2M followers, 32.2K engagements


"Gorbachev's Biggest Mistake - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=yMjEc81WY8E)  2026-01-13T16:30Z 1.2M followers, 940.9K engagements


"Space Will Be the Cheapest Place to Put AI - Elon Musk"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1TXofjCaYh4)  2026-02-11T21:45Z 1.2M followers, 14.5K engagements


"Sarah Paine How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China After my last lecture series with Sarah Paine ended I still had so many questions. I knew wed only scratched the surface of Sarahs scholarship so I immediately invited her back for another series: she graciously agreed and well be releasing the results online over the coming weeks and months This first lecture is focused on the balance of power in East Asia at the turn of the 20th century. Specifically how did Japan (population 47M) defeat China (400M) and Russia (130M) to become Asia's dominant power For me the most"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KxIeJjEGLdo)  2025-07-25T17:26Z 1.2M followers, 1.4M engagements


"Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) The hidden pattern behind every AI breakthrough Here is my conversation with Dario Amodei CEO of Anthropic. Dario is hilarious and has fascinating takes on what these models are doing why they scale so well and what it will take to align them.  * Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/dario-amodei * Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3rZOzPA * Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3QwMXXU * Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp --- Im running an experiment on this episode. Im not doing an ad. Instead Im just going to ask you to pay for whatever value you feel"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nlkk3glap_U)  2023-08-08T13:40Z 1.2M followers, 270.5K engagements


"Why AI Won't Show Up in GDP - Andrej Karpathy"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hACQl93GhrE)  2025-10-24T19:10Z 1.2M followers, 177.4K engagements


"Andrej Karpathy Were summoning ghosts not building animals The Andrej Karpathy episode. During this interview Andrej explains why reinforcement learning is terrible (but everything else is much worse) why AGI will just blend into the previous [---] centuries of 2% GDP growth why self driving took so long to crack and what he sees as the future of education. It was a pleasure chatting with him.  * Transcript: https://dwarkesh.substack.com/p/andrej-karpathy * Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/andrej-karpathy-agi-is-still-a-decade-away/id1516093381i=1000732326311 * Spotify:"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lXUZvyajciY)  2025-10-17T17:15Z 1.2M followers, 1.2M engagements


"The Neighbors Russia Erased From History - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qmX-mGqaCz8)  2026-01-31T21:06Z 1.2M followers, 950.8K engagements


"The ancient humans who wiped out 90% of Europeans David Reich"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zcU22ry1pzo)  2024-09-02T19:17Z 1.2M followers, 13.7M engagements


"Why Putin's NATO Nightmare Is Self-Inflicted - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Fi3WN5Ds4U)  2025-10-01T19:11Z 1.2M followers, 8.1M engagements


"Richard Sutton Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end Richard Sutton is the father of reinforcement learning winner of the [----] Turing Award and author of The Bitter Lesson. And he thinks LLMs are a dead end. After interviewing him my steel man of Richards position is this: LLMs arent capable of learning on-the-job so no matter how much we scale well need *some* new architecture to enable continual learning. And once we have it we wont need a special training phase the agent will just learn on-the-fly like all humans and indeed like all animals. This new paradigm will render our current"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=21EYKqUsPfg)  2025-09-26T16:01Z 1.2M followers, 673.9K engagements


"The Cost of Democracy - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=32tzKmZby0M)  2025-12-24T17:13Z 1.2M followers, 780.3K engagements


"Music People Aren't Math People - Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3uD_JrhBN0M)  2024-03-09T18:00Z 1.2M followers, 618.3K engagements


"Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think Sergey Levine Sergey Levine is one of the worlds top robotics researchers and co-founder of Physical Intelligence. He thinks were on the cusp of a self-improvement flywheel for general-purpose robots. His median estimate for when robots will be able to run households entirely autonomously [----]. If Sergeys right the world [--] years from now will be an *insanely* different place than it is today. This conversation focuses on understanding how we get there: we dive into foundation models for robotics and how we scale both the data and the"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=48pxVdmkMIE)  2025-09-12T15:32Z 1.2M followers, 220.6K engagements


"Only Losers in Territorial Wars Sarah Paine #history #geopolitics #internationalrelations"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4xGTeWkVh74)  2025-02-06T18:15Z 1.2M followers, 7M engagements


"Will AI be Conscious - Mark Zuckerberg"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5mUpPjqlUNM)  2024-10-19T19:29Z 1.2M followers, 74.7K engagements


"Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken New episode with my good friends Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken. Sholto focuses on scaling RL and Trenton researches mechanistic interpretability both at Anthropic. We talk through whats changed in the last year of AI research; the new RL regime and how far it can scale; how to trace a models thoughts; and how countries workers and students should prepare for AGI. See you next year for v3. Enjoy  * Transcript: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sholto-trenton-2 * Apple Podcasts:"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=64lXQP6cs5M)  2025-05-22T21:06Z 1.2M followers, 191.4K engagements


"What Putin Learned From Stalin Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6ajBZ6VOtEY)  2025-01-26T17:46Z 1.2M followers, 5.1M engagements


"The Atrocities of WWII - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7cZbgWcKpN0)  2024-04-24T06:16Z 1.2M followers, 15.5M engagements


"How WWII Actually Started - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9eog7c255CM)  2025-09-04T22:23Z 1.2M followers, 5.5M engagements


"The reality under the Communist Party of China Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9yTA7cctL18)  2024-04-02T01:00Z 1.2M followers, 2.4M engagements


"When India Outsmarted Pakistan in Kashmir - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=A0bygbfHbJI)  2025-02-28T18:16Z 1.2M followers, 8.2M engagements


"How Did the USSR Survive So Long - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AqvBvO0IkJ0)  2025-12-22T16:00Z 1.2M followers, 868.4K engagements


"How the Soviets Backstabbed China - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BSJFZKgRkTw)  2025-11-08T21:40Z 1.2M followers, 1.6M engagements


"Identifying garbage history books Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BzG3Wvv8Gv8)  2025-01-17T17:45Z 1.2M followers, 18.4M engagements


"America Will No Longer Lead The West Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dxbte0Raggc)  2025-11-05T15:09Z 1.2M followers, 2.1M engagements


"Why is Putin So Popular - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=E1h3KuDYAic)  2025-12-19T17:54Z 1.2M followers, 1.6M engagements


"When Russia Sabotaged Its Own Naval Fleet - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FHn53ET1a4A)  2025-12-06T22:06Z 1.2M followers, 3.5M engagements


"Roman Slavery Was Not Like America's Kyle Harper"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FjwLfkUb45E)  2025-04-25T16:45Z 1.2M followers, 10.8M engagements


"Are We Being Too Optimistic About AI Andrej Karpathy"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IJuHzQ_DB3Q)  2025-10-17T20:30Z 1.2M followers, 60.9K engagements


"Why America failed in Afghanistan and Iraq"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IuZVDYtUtaw)  2024-04-16T07:07Z 1.2M followers, 3.5M engagements


"Why We Need Fewer Politicians and More Statesmen - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LY5dyIfq__Q)  2026-01-06T19:17Z 1.2M followers, 531.8K engagements


"How Bismarck United Germany Without Overthrowing Anyone - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NXrncq0YiNc)  2025-09-21T19:24Z 1.2M followers, 6.5M engagements


"How a Tiny Taiwan Outclassed China - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NmhMxhv7vY0)  2025-01-31T20:01Z 1.2M followers, 2.9M engagements


"How Tsar Nicholas Controlled Russia - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=O0vD6nk9_kQ)  2025-08-05T18:39Z 1.2M followers, 2.3M engagements


"Why China and the USSR Turned Against Each Other - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PglGATiB6BQ)  2025-11-30T21:13Z 1.2M followers, 1.7M engagements


"The [--] Events That Defeated WWII Japan Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PsS6bv4bNlc)  2025-04-20T17:15Z 1.2M followers, 12.8M engagements


"How America Made The Great Depression Worse - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q0J9NaTS6MQ)  2025-07-28T17:33Z 1.2M followers, 2.5M engagements


"Sarah Paine How Russia sabotaged China's rise In this lecture military historian Sarah Paine explains how Russiaand specifically Stalincompletely derailed Chinas rise slowing them down for over a century. This lecture was particularly interesting to me because in my opinion the Chinese Civil War is [--] of the top [--] most important events of the 20th century. And to understand why it transpired as it did you need to understand Stalins role in the whole thing.  * Transcript: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sarah-paine-russo-chinese * Apple Podcasts:"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RH_ycZYH8-s)  2025-10-31T15:30Z 1.2M followers, 1.5M engagements


"How Africa Bankrupted the Soviet Union - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SkOcRFGhIuM)  2026-01-04T16:00Z 1.2M followers, 3.1M engagements


"Xi says China will invade Taiwan Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TUDsUw3gG6I)  2024-09-04T19:26Z 1.2M followers, 5.1M engagements


"How Lee Kuan Yew Made Singapore - Tony Blair"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VCb0iAWrm0Q)  2024-06-29T16:30Z 1.2M followers, 12.1M engagements


"Westernize or Die: Japans Meiji Calculation - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VlVfA-V6iIw)  2025-08-28T18:29Z 1.2M followers, 3.6M engagements


"The caste system transformed Indian genetics - David Reich"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Q5Qh2Tx5c)  2024-09-27T18:48Z 1.2M followers, 19.9M engagements


"Adam Marblestone AI is missing something fundamental about the brain Adam Marblestone is CEO of Convergent Research. Hes had a very interesting past life; Research Scientist at Google Deepmind on their neuroscient team; has worked on brain computer interfaces to quantum computing and nanotech to formal mathematics. Where we discuss how the brain learns so much from so little what the AI field can learn from neuroscience and the answer to Ilyas question: how does the genome encode abstract reward functions Turns out theyre all the same question.  * Transcript:"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_9V_Hbe-N1A)  2025-12-30T17:32Z 1.2M followers, 185.8K engagements


"Gwern Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary Gwern's blog: https://gwern.net/. Gwern is a pseudonymous researcher and writer. After the episode I convinced Gwern to create a donation page where people can help sustain what he's up to. Please go here to contribute: https://donate.stripe.com/6oE9DTgaf6oD0M03cc. Thank you to my friend Chris Painter for doing an amazing job voice acting Gwern. * Jane Street is looking to hire their next generation of leaders. Their deep learning team is looking for ML researchers FPGA programmers and CUDA programmers. Summer internships"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=a42key59cZQ)  2024-11-13T18:58Z 1.2M followers, 169.1K engagements


"Mark Zuckerberg Llama [--] $10B models Caesar Augustus & [--] GW datacenters Zuck on: * Llama [--] * open sourcing towards AGI * custom silicon synthetic data & energy constraints on scaling * Caesar Augustus intelligence explosion bioweapons $10b models & much more Enjoy  * Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/mark-zuckerberg * Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mark-zuckerberg-llama-3-open-sourcing-%2410b-models-caeser/id1516093381i=1000652877239 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Lbsk4HtQZfkJ4dZjh7E7ksi=GOqj7hUdSaWSgi7ULWXjMA * Me on Twitter:"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bc6uFV9CJGg)  2024-04-18T16:00Z 1.2M followers, 876.1K engagements


"How They Became Leading AI Researchers in Just [--] Year Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken Full Episode: https://youtu.be/UTuuTTnjxMQ Website & Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/sholto-douglas-trenton-bricken Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2dtDauiE4v8ldNRqPFq0uPsi=7S4n69QuTjeYz0lZwW4xIw Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sholto-douglas-trenton-bricken-how-to-build-understand/id1516093381i=1000650748087 Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Trenton Bricken's Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrentonBricken Sholto Douglas's Twitter:"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cPu3SecmgUU)  2024-03-29T17:42Z 1.2M followers, 134.1K engagements


"Mao Did What Nobody Else Could - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dNfhyiNb3tQ)  2025-04-01T18:00Z 1.2M followers, 3.5M engagements


"Putins Great Naval Problem Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dmxub4YjcEA)  2025-10-05T14:46Z 1.2M followers, 14.5M engagements


"How the Soviets Became Asias Biggest Postwar Winner - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=e56VmuK6hmg)  2025-11-19T22:43Z 1.2M followers, 1.8M engagements


"Attacking America Is a Devastating Miscalculation Sarah Paine Full Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Znk5QINe01A Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/sarah-paine-japan Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sarah-paine-episode-1-the-war-for-india-lecture-interview/id1516093381i=1000684289338 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6beCTbPFOXKXNYPAsU7vQaMe on Twitter: https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp From Episode [--] of my lecture series with Sarah Paine Enjoy"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eebSpobsPmM)  2025-01-28T18:30Z 1.2M followers, 1.3M engagements


"Putins Real Problem Isnt NATO - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=elJtRqY4k-0)  2025-09-24T18:41Z 1.2M followers, 9.7M engagements


"The Problem With Math Textbooks - Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fCWnuaMWTuo)  2024-02-28T22:00Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements


"Why China Turned on the USSR - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fofNgmYKpFE)  2025-05-18T16:52Z 1.2M followers, 5.7M engagements


"America's Most Repeated Foreign Policy Mistake - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iLCwFGcjBmM)  2025-02-05T18:16Z 1.2M followers, 2.4M engagements


"Britain's Worst WW1 Mission - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jQfQ8GWdkmM)  2025-09-10T16:59Z 1.2M followers, 1.5M engagements


"The Great Leap Forward - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jl9msJRuAMg)  2025-02-08T19:44Z 1.2M followers, 22.6M engagements


"How Unpopular Reforms Saved Japan - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mgxB8lKULiM)  2025-08-02T16:05Z 1.2M followers, 2.2M engagements


"Mao the Psychopath - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=nQVE1HOrWMc)  2025-02-01T19:05Z 1.2M followers, 14.2M engagements


"How Hedgehogs Hunted Hitlers U-Boats Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=nW_C8gTzsKs)  2025-09-07T15:45Z 1.2M followers, 4.4M engagements


"Why China Couldn't Adapt Like Japan - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oRDao2iTyY0)  2025-07-27T17:15Z 1.2M followers, 1.9M engagements


"@Asianometry & Dylan Patel How the semiconductor industry actually works Dylan Patel runs Semianalysis the leading publication and research firm on AI hardware: https://www.semianalysis.com/. Jon Y runs @Asianometry the worlds best YouTube channel on semiconductors and business history.  * Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/dylan-jon * Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dylan-patel-jon-asianometry-how-the-semiconductor/id1516093381i=1000671564456 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6q1XODE2L5bqqBwe7434S7si=seXQ6K_LQZeAV6776H6MhQ * Me on Twitter:"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pE3KKUKXcTM)  2024-10-02T14:59Z 1.2M followers, 354.6K engagements


"How Much Will China Risk for Taiwan Sarah Paine (Naval War College) Full Episode: https://youtu.be/YcVSgYz5SJ8 (October 2023) Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/sarah-paine Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sarah-c-m-paine-how-xi-putin-think-maritime-vs-continental/id1516093381i=1000630184469 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/073V9sl5GLf7R0JlMSFdK7si=Z3Eu2BZiQiCe1rDINzCZDQ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qSTuahfAZf0)  2024-03-12T16:00Z 1.2M followers, 2.1M engagements


"How to Wreck a Nation - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qTtbdYoyp30)  2025-05-12T17:58Z 1.2M followers, 5.8M engagements


"Soviet Supermarkets - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=t7CIrQCIkzc)  2025-12-18T20:31Z 1.2M followers, 3M engagements


"Why German U-Boats Never Stood a Chance - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uMYoNWZTeNY)  2025-09-22T21:19Z 1.2M followers, 1.6M engagements


"The Secret Weapon That Ended The Cold War - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=w0j7mXLcceE)  2026-01-03T15:20Z 1.2M followers, 963.4K engagements


"How China Betrayed India - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zCePMVvl1ek)  2025-05-15T16:40Z 1.2M followers, 12.3M engagements


"Leopold Aschenbrenner [----] AGI China/US super-intelligence race & the return of history Chatted with my friend Leopold Aschenbrenner about the trillion dollar cluster unhobblings + scaling = [----] AGI CCP espionage at AI labs leaving OpenAI and starting an AGI investment firm dangers of outsourcing clusters to the Middle East & The Project. Read the new essay series from Leopold this episode is based on here: https://situational-awareness.ai/  * Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/leopold-aschenbrenner * Apple Podcasts:"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zdbVtZIn9IM)  2024-06-04T16:00Z 1.2M followers, 363.5K engagements


"Michael Huemer - Anarchy Capitalism and Progress Michael Huemer is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado. He is the author of more than sixty academic articles in epistemology ethics metaethics metaphysics and political philosophy as well as eight amazing books. Episode website: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/ michael-huemer Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3TwQB2Q Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3e5QB9U Read Michael's awesome blog: http://fakenous.net/ Follow me on Twitter to be notified of future content: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Buy Knowledge Reality and Value:"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=--xKsIgv7tE)  2021-05-28T22:02Z 362K followers, [----] engagements


"Ukraine Initially Welcomed the Germans in WWII - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-MJioykUJtI)  2024-04-12T22:00Z 365K followers, 2.3M engagements


"The Event That Killed 60% of Romans"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-W2c_ixw3cs)  2025-04-27T18:32Z 804K followers, 380.4K engagements


"Tony Blair's single biggest advice to Labour when they win Full Episode: https://youtu.be/zSLWR3AbF3c Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/tony-blair Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tony-blair-life-of-a-pm-the-deep-state-lee-kuan/id1516093381i=1000660321397 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Cw5hF5dUyMFHdxXuSe3Wp Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-bO9CtqtJxM)  2024-07-05T16:40Z 365K followers, 12.2K engagements


"Stalin's spies in Manhattan Project"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-kaaHiz-rK8)  2023-05-25T15:45Z 860K followers, [----] engagements


"America ONLY needs submarine-based nukes From my conversation with Richard Rhodes historian and author of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb." Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=tMdMiYsfHKo Or read the transcript here: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/richard-rhodes Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3oBack9 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3S5g2YK"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=09T6EJ_wEbA)  2023-09-12T19:00Z 892K followers, 192.5K engagements


"The Air Force's Failed Attempt to Monopolize Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War - Richard Rhodes"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0kBquK8xgJQ)  2024-05-04T01:51Z 161K followers, 60.3K engagements


"Chinas Unconventional Path to Success - Arthur Kroeber"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0nJmi2vXt4k)  2025-06-20T20:35Z 858K followers, 548K engagements


"Why India and Pakistan Built Nukes - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=11QBHObPm8U)  2025-05-16T17:28Z 911K followers, 1.7M engagements


"Deepseek Wont Make AI Dominance Cheaper Song: Chasing Daylight by Scott Buckley"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1GEotRPcPO4)  2025-03-23T17:55Z 917K followers, 40.7K engagements


"How Likely is Nuclear War in the Near Future - Richard Rhodes"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1RWBt0CsngI)  2024-08-03T23:00Z 962K followers, 51.9K engagements


"A key period in human evolution wasn't in Africa David Reich Full Episode: https://youtu.be/Uj6skZIxPuI Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/david-reich Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/3RFuS7b/ Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3APeQ3L Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp If youre interested in advertising on the podcast: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/advertise"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1SbyMBvJzkE)  2024-09-02T16:00Z 260K followers, 94.3K engagements


"2025 models will be more like coworkers than search engines OpenAI cofounder John Schulman Full Episode: https://youtu.be/Wo95ob_s_NI Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/john-schulman-openai-cofounder-reasoning-rlhf-plan/id1516093381i=1000655679622 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ivzHH9RWciXe4O1rKtldfsi=53503781e05f4d8f Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/john-schulman/ Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp/"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1fmcdz2EO_c)  2024-05-14T16:00Z 725K followers, 16.9K engagements


"Black Death in India"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1u8suASl0cI)  2025-04-28T16:30Z 781K followers, 244.8K engagements


"The Origin of Stalin's Secret Police"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1uAdARtwmnw)  2025-07-23T15:46Z 906K followers, 139K engagements


"The Narrow Window to AGI"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=26UXVSZhv98)  2024-03-29T17:13Z 913K followers, 25.5K engagements


"Cockfighting is a Felony Factory Farming is 'Commerce'"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2F_KfEK7oaU)  2025-08-08T16:30Z 907K followers, 25.7K engagements


"The New Cold War With China - Arthur Kroeber"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2N3z6JsMldU)  2025-07-02T17:00Z 860K followers, 85.6K engagements


"Did the USSR plot to infect the world with smallpox From my conversation with Richard Rhodes historian and author of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb." Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=tMdMiYsfHKo Or read the transcript here: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/richard-rhodes Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3oBack9 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3S5g2YK"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2Zs98syjt-0)  2023-09-14T19:00Z 881K followers, 17.7K engagements


"EU Pushes Free Markets"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2liuce8yiM0)  2023-01-23T18:30Z 1M followers, [---] engagements


"Agustin Lebron - Trading Crypto and Adverse Selection Agustin Lebron began his career as a trader and researcher at Jane Street Capital one of the largest market-making firms in the world. He currently runs the consulting firm Essilen Research where he is dedicated to helping clients integrate modern decision-making approaches in their business. Episode website + Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/agustin-lebron Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3Rhttnm Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3COMNEe Follow me on Twitter to be notified of future content: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Follow"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3BBNG0TlVwM)  2023-10-21T18:45Z 38K followers, [----] engagements


"Transfer learning proves LLMs arent stochastic parrots Trenton Bricken & Sholto Douglas Full Episode: https://youtu.be/UTuuTTnjxMQ Website & Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/sholto-douglas-trenton-bricken Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2dtDauiE4v8ldNRqPFq0uPsi=7S4n69QuTjeYz0lZwW4xIw Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sholto-douglas-trenton-bricken-how-to-build-understand/id1516093381i=1000650748087 Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Trenton Bricken's Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrentonBricken Sholto Douglas's Twitter:"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3Fyv3VIgeS4)  2024-03-26T15:06Z 701K followers, 27.3K engagements


"China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean theyll win AGI Casey Handmer How will we feed the 100s of GWs of extra energy demand that AI will create over the next decade On this episode Casey Handmer (Caltech PhD former NASA JPL founder & CEO of Terraform Industries) walks me through how we can pull it off and why he thinks a major part of this energy singularity will be powered by solar. His views are contrarian but he came armed to defend them.  * Transcript: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/casey-handmer * Apple Podcasts:"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3cDHx2_QbPE)  2025-08-15T15:26Z 926K followers, 72.6K engagements


"Dominic Cummings - Inside the Collapse of Western Government Why Western governments are so dangerously broken and how to fix them before an even more catastrophic crisis. Dominic was Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister during COVID and before that director of Vote Leave (which masterminded the [----] Brexit referendum). Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dominic-cummings-covid-brexit-fixing-western-governance/id1516093381i=1000634919285 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6HHku14yskmTwQR0IcYXOwsi=MQcsWkwDTRauk5yp7ZtLZg Transcript:"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3i7ym_Qh7BA)  2023-11-15T15:36Z 914K followers, 195.6K engagements


"Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us Aligning LLMs Nature of Intelligence SciFi & Rationality For [--] hours I tried to come up reasons for why AI might not kill us all and Eliezer Yudkowsky explained why I was wrong. We also discuss his call to halt AI why LLMs make alignment harder what it would take to save humanity his millions of words of sci-fi and much more. If you want to get to the crux of the conversation fast forward to 2:35:00 through 3:43:54. Here we go through and debate the main reasons I still think doom is unlikely. Transcript: https://dwarkeshpatel.com/p/eliezer-yudkowsky"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=41SUp-TRVlg)  2023-10-23T03:37Z 38.1K followers, 116.2K engagements


"How should AI behave and who should decide OpenAI cofounder John Schulman Full Episode: https://youtu.be/Wo95ob_s_NI Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/john-schulman-openai-cofounder-reasoning-rlhf-plan/id1516093381i=1000655679622 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ivzHH9RWciXe4O1rKtldfsi=53503781e05f4d8f Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/john-schulman/ Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp/"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4X-oHnX-I1A)  2024-05-21T16:00Z 162K followers, [----] engagements


"US China Communication is at a New Low - Arthur Kroeber"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4fkFiThYg3c)  2025-06-24T18:30Z 854K followers, 51.9K engagements


"Sam Bankman-Fried On FOCUS #shorts Full episode: https://youtu.be/5Af0d2DbK5w Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2SXFTjId3fpxmhh3gRkFDIsi=0X9YB4vGQaOLe6PG3yazjw Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/32-sam-bankman-fried-crypto-altruism-and-leadership/id1516093381i=1000568843669 Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/sbf"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4mW3Bc3TACo)  2023-10-21T03:48Z 38K followers, [---] engagements


"Xi's Cult of Personality"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4zu9CP3IngI)  2025-03-07T17:41Z 975K followers, 67.3K engagements


"AGI Will be Government Controlled"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5-HPif4E8aQ)  2024-06-05T18:00Z 178K followers, [----] engagements


"How Britain's WWII Predictions Failed"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=546eYXvOdBY)  2025-04-19T18:55Z 760K followers, 205.1K engagements


"Joe Carlsmith - Preventing an AI Takeover Chatted with Joe Carlsmith about whether we can trust power/techno-capital how to not end up like Stalin in our urge to control the future gentleness towards the artificial Other and much more. Check out Joes excellent essay series on Otherness and control in the age of AGI: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi/ Enjoy Links: Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/joe-carlsmith Apple Podcasts:"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5XsL_7TnfLU)  2024-08-22T15:42Z 887K followers, 29.8K engagements


"How Gwern saw AI scaling coming Full Episode: https://youtu.be/a42key59cZQ Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/gwern-branwen Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gwern-branwen-how-an-anonymous-researcher-predicted/id1516093381i=1000676859036 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/46H5dTtYaj1L55UAy9XXaYsi=e2f5f418f3994c62 Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5fkqmNzFni8)  2024-11-19T19:16Z 382K followers, [----] engagements


"Response to Sam Altman on Accelerating AI"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5k_L5_-fTJA)  2023-10-26T20:47Z 27.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Scaling LLMs further is an artform - Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind CEO) Full Episode: https://youtu.be/qTogNUV3CAI Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/demis-hassabis Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/demis-hassabis-scaling-superhuman-ais-alphazero-atop/id1516093381i=1000647410338 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6SWbwjYPs5WevIoCCiSBySsi=nCVFSRr7QGGI_STgbrOBDA Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=666XgM38jJE)  2024-02-26T16:53Z [--] followers, 32.6K engagements


"AI Labs are extremely vulnerable to espionage Leopold Aschenbrenner Full Episode: https://youtu.be/zdbVtZIn9IM Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/leopold-aschenbrenner Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/leopold-aschenbrenner-china-us-super-intelligence-race/id1516093381i=1000657821539 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5NQFPblNw8ewxKolIDpiYNsi=6NaTHAugT2SxZrspW3lziw Read the new essay series from Leopold this episode is based on here: https://situational-awareness.ai/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Follow Leopold on Twitter:"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=667IffkMDmU)  2024-06-08T16:00Z 175K followers, [----] engagements


"Washington Does Whatever This Tiny Lobby Says"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6cR8ZOHeM8Q)  2025-08-07T17:04Z 907K followers, 67.6K engagements


"Russia's Modernization Dilemma"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6fmovtP0OZ8)  2025-07-19T14:10Z 906K followers, 214.3K engagements


"Why OpenAI gave up on robotics - Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) Full episode: https://youtu.be/Yf1o0TQzry8 Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/ilya-sutskever Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/42H6c4D Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3LRqOBd Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7tL1Jy_b_3Y)  2023-12-15T17:00Z 35.8K followers, 36.5K engagements


"Why Rome Actually Fell - Kyle Harper"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7wtiHoFYzLU)  2025-05-06T17:15Z 808K followers, 72.9K engagements


"Steve Hsu - Intelligence Embryo Selection & The Future of Humanity Steve Hsu is a Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics Science and Engineering at Michigan State University and one of the founders of the company Genomic Prediction. We go deep into the weeds on how embryo selection can make babies healthier and smarter. Steve also explains the advice Richard Feynman gave him to pick up girls the genetics of aging and intelligence and the psychometric differences between shape rotators and wordcels. Read Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/steve-hsu Apple"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=80BhjRh-Q-s)  2022-08-23T12:27Z 883K followers, 11.3K engagements


"MacArthur Pushed to Nuke Korea"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=83HNGfY-CEw)  2024-11-03T23:00Z 367K followers, 173.3K engagements


"Deepseek was always impressive - @Asianometry & Dylan Patel"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8eWZtuX98aU)  2024-10-11T17:38Z 863K followers, 854.6K engagements


"Paul Christiano - Preventing an AI Takeover Talked with Paul Christiano (worlds leading AI safety researcher) about: - Does he regret inventing RLHF - What do we want post-AGI world to look like (do we want to keep gods enslaved forever) - Why he has relatively modest timelines (40% by [----] 15% by 2030) - Why hes leading the push to get to labs develop responsible scaling policies & what it would take to prevent an AI coup or bioweapon - His current research into a new proof system and how this could solve alignment by explaining model's behavior - and much more. Open Philanthropy Open"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9AAhTLa0dT0)  2023-10-31T14:16Z 332K followers, 72.3K engagements


"How Hitler and Stalin Dodged Death - Stephen Kotkin"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AUbx70aqp40)  2025-07-10T18:20Z 936K followers, 344.5K engagements


"AI will bring pocket nukes but is still net positive Tyler Cowen Full Episode: https://youtu.be/EY2nbAVZB-k Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/tyler-cowen-3 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tyler-cowen-hayek-keynes-smith-on-ai-animal-spirits/id1516093381i=1000643676389 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7cpOpwBCzIEsjcSxu7IeQQsi=8CjC-T0GQayMvYWXtSkqXA Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AZAqO3k_KxA)  2024-05-02T16:00Z 362K followers, [----] engagements


"Caleb Watney - America's Innovation Engine Caleb Watney is the director of innovation policy at the Progressive Policy Institute. Episode website: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/caleb-watney Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pVUVuT Spotify:https://spoti.fi/3eeDHXm Follow me on Twitter to be notified of future content: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Follow Caleb Watney: https://twitter.com/calebwatney Caleb's new blog: https://www.agglomerations.tech/ Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:20 America's innovation engine is slowing 1:02 Remote work/ agglomeration effects 8:45 Chinese vs American innovation"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ayewh_O0LPQ)  2020-09-04T13:53Z 744K followers, [---] engagements


"Japanese Morale in WWII Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BAIvFDSNzPk)  2024-03-15T19:00Z 929K followers, 8.4M engagements


"NEPA Failure #shorts"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BiyAf4jl9vc)  2022-10-31T14:00Z 933K followers, [---] engagements


"This US Policy Makes NO Sense"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BsE0enG_Rhc)  2025-08-15T17:49Z 913K followers, 141.2K engagements


"The Development of Nukes was Inevitable"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CMK36-dTvIg)  2024-05-05T20:15Z 687K followers, 419.4K engagements


"Why OpenAI Founder Thinks AI Is Near Interview with Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist of OpenAI) for The Lunar Society Podcast. https://youtu.be/Yf1o0TQzry8"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=D3dBiEx-yMA)  2023-03-31T16:30Z 359K followers, 30.4K engagements


"The Cost of Ending the Pacific War - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DCd2Eo-6AZ0)  2025-01-27T20:28Z 950K followers, 2.7M engagements


"Taiwan Invasion: Timeline to Global Collapse @Asianometry & Dylan Patel Full Episode: https://youtu.be/pE3KKUKXcTM Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/dylan-jon Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dylan-patel-jon-asianometry-how-the-semiconductor/id1516093381i=1000671564456 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6q1XODE2L5bqqBwe7434S7si=seXQ6K_LQZeAV6776H6MhQ Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DTOU3vchBE0)  2024-10-08T16:00Z 865K followers, 19.1K engagements


"Civilian Deaths in WW1 vs WW2 - Sarah Paine"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Df20sdf5if8)  2025-01-27T17:45Z 906K followers, 1.8M engagements


"How Britain Defeated Germany On The Atlantic"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DqU4XpoFeuk)  2025-09-18T18:25Z 1M followers, 554.2K engagements


"Japan Could Have Held On To Manchuria in WWII"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DvTcz6QNX78)  2024-04-02T06:30Z 937K followers, 2.8M engagements


"Eliezer vs George - You Have AI Or Does The AI Have You From the debate between Eliezer Yudkowsky & George Hotz. Watch the full vod here: https://youtube.com/live/6yQEA18C-XI Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3oBack9 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3S5g2YK"  
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=E7jtVW6TypM)  2023-08-16T19:48Z 1M followers, [----] engagements

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