Dwarkesh Patel (@dwarkesh

Dwarkesh Patel

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Dwarkesh Patel

@dwarkesh_sp

Host of @dwarkeshpodcast youtube.com/DwarkeshPatel open.spotify.com/show/4JH4tybY1… apple.co/3ujLQkZ

San Francisco

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Born August 19, 2000

Joined December 2019

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Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh_sp
Apr 15
The Jensen Huang episode. 0:00:00 – Is Nvidia’s biggest moat its grip on scarce supply chains? 0:16:25 – Will TPUs break Nvidia’s hold on AI compute? 0:41:06 – Why doesn’t Nvidia become a hyperscaler? 0:57:36 – Should we be selling AI chips to China? 1:35:06 – Why doesn’t Nvidia
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Dwarkesh Patel
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Oct 13, 2025
Does everyone secretly feel that if you went back you to college now, you could learn so much faster, better, and deeper? And that your 18 year old self kinda wasted the opportunity?
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Dwarkesh Patel
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Oct 17, 2025
The @karpathy interview 0:00:00 – AGI is still a decade away 0:30:33 – LLM cognitive deficits 0:40:53 – RL is terrible 0:50:26 – How do humans learn? 1:07:13 – AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth 1:18:24 – ASI 1:33:38 – Evolution of intelligence & culture 1:43:43 - Why self
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Dwarkesh Patel
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Nov 25, 2024
It’s funny how China has basically the inverse problem as America. We subsidize demand and restrict supply. They subsidize supply and restrict demand. We can’t rebuild fallen bridges. They build bridges to nowhere. In the most desirable cities in this country, every random
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Dwarkesh Patel
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Jun 26, 2024
Tony Blair explains the 3 key decisions Lee Kuan Yew took that made Singapore rich. “Each one of them now seems obvious. Each one at the time was deeply contested.”
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Dwarkesh Patel
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Oct 16, 2025
Tomorrow
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Dwarkesh Patel
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Nov 21, 2023
I still haven't heard a good answer to this question, on or off the podcast. AI researchers often tell me, "Don't worry bout it, scale solves this." But what is the rebuttal to someone who argues that this indicates a fundamental limitation?
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Dwarkesh Patel
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Jul 25, 2024
My family moved to the US when I was 8, but by the time I turned 20, my dad was still on an H1B (waiting to get processed for a green card). Once I turned 21, I would age out as his dependent, despite the fact that I basically grew up in the US. I thought I'd have to become a
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Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh_sp
Feb 19, 2025
Kids, don't underestimate the power of a cold email. (From @Microsoft's YouTube channel - link below)
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Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh_sp
Feb 19, 2025
.@satyanadella on: - why he doesn’t believe in AGI but does believe in 10% economic growth - Microsoft’s new topological qubit breakthrough and gaming world models - whether Office commoditizes LLMs or the other way around Links below. Enjoy! Timestamps 0:00:00 - Intro
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Dwarkesh Patel
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Sep 7, 2025
I find it frustrating that almost every nonfiction book is basically just a history lesson, even if it's nominally about some science/tech/policy topic. Nobody will just explain how something works. Books about the semiconductor industry will never actually explain the basic
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Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh_sp
Feb 19, 2025
.@satyanadella shows me the first (and currently only) Majorana 1 quantum computing chip
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Satya Nadella
@satyanadella
Feb 19, 2025
A couple reflections on the quantum computing breakthrough we just announced... Most of us grew up learning there are three main types of matter that matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Today, that changed. After a nearly 20 year pursuit, we’ve created an entirely new state of
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Microsoft's supporting paper, published in Nature, does not support the claim that they have created a topological qubit. nature.com/articles/s4158… Peer reviewers of the Nature paper expressed concern that the paper misleadingly implies that a topological qubit was demonstrated or otherwise achieved: static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1…
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Dwarkesh Patel
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Nov 11, 2025
Tomorrow
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Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh_sp
Oct 17, 2025
The most interesting part for me is where @karpathy describes why LLMs aren't able to learn like humans. As you would expect, he comes up with a wonderfully evocative phrase to describe RL: “sucking supervision bits through a straw.” A single end reward gets broadcast across
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Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh_sp
Oct 17, 2025
The @karpathy interview 0:00:00 – AGI is still a decade away 0:30:33 – LLM cognitive deficits 0:40:53 – RL is terrible 0:50:26 – How do humans learn? 1:07:13 – AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth 1:18:24 – ASI 1:33:38 – Evolution of intelligence & culture 1:43:43 - Why self
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