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  ern World Today I talk to Pradyu Prasad (blogger and podcaster) about the book "Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan" by Herbert P. Bix. We also discuss militarization, industrial capacity, curren

  Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World · 2022-04-27
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  ern World Today I talk to Pradyu Prasad (blogger and podcaster) about the book "Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan" by Herbert P. Bix. We also discuss militarization, industrial capacity, curren

  Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World · 2022-04-27
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  honor & pleasure to interview Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb We discuss - similarities between AI progress & Manhattan Project (developing a

  Richard Rhodes — The making of the atomic bomb · 2023-05-23
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  honor & pleasure to interview Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb We discuss - similarities between AI progress & Manhattan Project (developing a

  Richard Rhodes — The making of the atomic bomb · 2023-05-23
• → references The Myth of the Rational Voter book

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  versity and a New York Times Bestselling author. His most famous works include: The Myth of the Rational Voter , Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids , The Case Against Education , and Open Bor

  Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness · 2022-04-12
• → references The Myth of the Rational Voter book

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  versity and a New York Times Bestselling author. His most famous works include: The Myth of the Rational Voter , Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids , The Case Against Education , and Open Bor

  Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas · 2020-05-22
• → references The Myth of the Rational Voter book

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  versity and a New York Times Bestselling author. His most famous works include: The Myth of the Rational Voter , Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids , The Case Against Education , and Open Bor

  Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness · 2022-04-12
• → references The Myth of the Rational Voter book

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  versity and a New York Times Bestselling author. His most famous works include: The Myth of the Rational Voter , Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids , The Case Against Education , and Open Bor

  Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas · 2020-05-22
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  Link in episode "Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World": https://brettongoods.substack.com/

  Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World · 2022-04-27
• → references Dwarkesh Sp person

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  Link in episode "Robin Hanson - The Long View": https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp

  Robin Hanson - The Long View · 2020-08-31
• → references richardhanania.substack.com website

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  Link in episode "Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness": https://richardhanania.substack.com/

  Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness · 2022-02-24
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  Link in episode "Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies": https://diff.substack.com/

  Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies · 2021-10-05
• → references Ent product

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  Link in episode "Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code": https://amazon.com/kindle-dbs/ent...

  Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code · 2020-11-28
• → references brettongoods.substack.com website

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  Link in episode "Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World": https://brettongoods.substack.com/

  Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World · 2022-04-27
• → references Dwarkesh Sp person

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  Link in episode "Robin Hanson - The Long View": https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp

  Robin Hanson - The Long View · 2020-08-31
• → references The Wizard and the Prophet book

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  C. Mann is the author of three of my favorite history books: 1491 . 1493 , and The Wizard and the Prophet . We discuss: * why Native American civilizations collapsed and why they faile

  Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry · 2022-09-14
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  C. Mann is the author of three of my favorite history books: 1491 . 1493 , and The Wizard and the Prophet . We discuss: * why Native American civilizations collapsed and why they faile

  Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry · 2022-09-14
• → references Smartest Guys in the Room book

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  a contributing editor at Vanity Fair (see her articles here ) and the author of The Smartest Guys in the Room , All the Devils Are Here , Saudi America , and Shaky Ground . Watch on YouTube

  Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries · 2022-12-21
• → references Elephant in the Brain book

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  son is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He is the author of The Elephant in the Brain and The Age of Em. Robin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/robinhanson Robin's

  Robin Hanson - The Long View · 2020-08-31
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  a contributing editor at Vanity Fair (see her articles here ) and the author of The Smartest Guys in the Room , All the Devils Are Here , Saudi America , and Shaky Ground . Watch on YouTube

  Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries · 2022-12-21
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  son is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He is the author of The Elephant in the Brain and The Age of Em. Robin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/robinhanson Robin's

  Robin Hanson - The Long View · 2020-08-31
• → references The Beginning Of Infinity book

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  s David Deutsch is the founder of the field of quantum computing and the author The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality . Read me contra David on AI . Watch on YouTube . Lis

  David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes · 2022-01-31
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  s David Deutsch is the founder of the field of quantum computing and the author The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality . Read me contra David on AI . Watch on YouTube . Lis

  David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes · 2022-01-31
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  Some thoughts on the Sutton interview

  Some thoughts on the Sutton interview · 2025-10-04
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  China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer

  China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer · 2025-08-15
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  Some thoughts on the Sutton interview

  Some thoughts on the Sutton interview · 2025-10-04
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  China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer

  China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer · 2025-08-15

• Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?
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• Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement
  2026-09-17 · 80 min · Dwarkesh Podcast · 4 entities
• AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
  2026-09-11 · 97 min · Dwarkesh Podcast · 3 entities
• Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
  2026-09-01 · 141 min · Dwarkesh Podcast · 5 entities
• The rise and fall of agent civilizations
  2026-08-31 · 25 min · Dwarkesh Podcast · 3 entities
• Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028
  2026-08-25 · 77 min · Dwarkesh Podcast · 3 entities
• Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?
  2026-08-11 · 133 min · Dwarkesh Podcast · 4 entities
• 8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning
  2026-08-07 · 9 min · Dwarkesh Podcast · 3 entities
• Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x
  2026-08-03 · 11 min · Dwarkesh Podcast · 3 entities
• Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity
  2026-07-10 · 98 min · Dwarkesh Podcast · 4 entities
• Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math
  2026-06-30 · 94 min · Dwarkesh Podcast · 5 entities
• The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job
  2026-06-26 · 20 min · Dwarkesh Podcast · 3 entities
• The data black hole at the center of AI
  2026-06-19 · 12 min · Dwarkesh Podcast · 3 entities
• Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
  2026-06-16 · 128 min · Dwarkesh Podcast · 4 entities
• Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
  2026-06-04 · 76 min · Dwarkesh Podcast · 5 entities