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Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner

Jun 2, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away

Oct 17, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

Dec 27, 2024 • Dwarkesh Patel

Ilya Sutskever — We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research

Nov 25, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

Podcast

2:02:19

Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer

Ambassador visiting Renaissance Florence: “Where am I? None of this has existed for a thousand years."

Mar 6 • Dwarkesh Patel

Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"

"That's why I'm sending this message of urgency"

Feb 13 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:22:19

Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

“Those who live in software land are about to have a hard lesson in hardware.”

Feb 5 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:49:45

Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain

The brain's secret sauce is its reward functions, not its architecture.

Dec 30, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:49:53

Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War

Oil crisis, Sino-Soviet split, ethnic rebellions, and arms build-up

Dec 19, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:54:54

Blog

Notes on Space GPUs

Turning my Elon prep into a blog post

Feb 5 • Dwarkesh Patel

Hiring scouts to help me find guests

$100/hour, fully remote. Ideal candidate is maybe a grad student/post doc/or working in one of: bio, history, econ, math/physics, AI/hardware.

Jan 15 • Dwarkesh Patel

What I've been reading recently - Jan 10, 2026

Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos, Machines of Loving Grace, Max Hodak’s theory of consciousness, Neural network training makes beautiful fractals

Jan 10 • Dwarkesh Patel

Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)

Why I'm moderately bearish in the short term, and explosively bullish in the long term

Dec 2, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel