Host of the Dwarkesh Podcast; long-form interviews on AI, science, and progress.
Economics of AGI episode w Alex Imas and Phil Trammell.There’s a bunch of important questions about how we deal with AI that only economics can answer.What is the optimal way to tax and redistribute the wealth...
New blackboard lecture with Reiner Pope: how do chips actually work - starting with basic logic gates, and working up to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do.Reiner is CEO of MatX, a new...
I had an interesting discussion recently. Someone asked me, what is intelligence? I said, the ability to achieve your goals across a wide range of domains. Okay, he says, then by that definition isn’t Donald Trump...
Wrote up some flashcards here to help myself retain all the stuff below.On why pretraining runs failsHad an interesting chat with someone on why pretraining runs often fail. It was very interesting to get a sense of all...
I’m writing up some threads that we explored in my interview with Michael Nielson. That episode was one of my favorites.The organizing question from my interview with Michael Nielson was, “How do we...
Eric Jang walks through how to build AlphaGo from scratch, but with modern AI tools.Sometimes you understand the future better by stepping backward. AlphaGo is still the cleanest worked example of the primitives of...