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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

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

Feb 13 • Dwarkesh Patel

Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat

Apr 15 • Dwarkesh Patel

Podcast

1:38:24

Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity

And why black holes are the ultimate power plants.

Jul 10 • Dwarkesh Patel

Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math

Watch now (94 mins) | Math is where we’ll see superintelligence first. What will it look like?

Jun 30 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:33:39

Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time

"He begged to work for the regime that tortured him."

Jun 16 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:08:20

Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?

“One robot now turns into many robots next year, but the number of ballerinas is the same.”

Jun 4 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:16:08

Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up

Working up from basic logic gates to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do.

May 22 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:20:30

Blog

Why compute might get 10x+ more expensive in coming years

If a human-level software engineer that could run on an H100 equivalent, at current market rates for software engineers, that H100 should rent for over…

Jul 29 • Dwarkesh Patel

The Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI

Abolishing pandemics/ Getting out of the way of AI automation/ Learning from Honk Kong MTR's business model

Jul 1 • Dwarkesh Patel

The mistake of conflating intelligence and power

If your definition of intelligence is "the ability to achieve your goals across a wide variety of domains", then Stalin was the most intelligent person…

May 16 • Dwarkesh Patel

Notes on pretraining parallelisms and failed training runs.

Deeply researched interviews

May 16 • Dwarkesh Patel

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