Dwarkesh Patel on history
From Dwarkesh Patel explains how to achieve greatness. · · Alexey Guzey
“I'm really pissed off that the portrait of Mao hangs off to Tiananmen Square um and that Mao revered by the Chinese regime despite the fact that he's the biggest mass murderer in history and that really pisses me off and it's doubly Insidious because not only has he killed more people than anybody else in history and then a powerful country worships him but also because his because his regime killed their own people his victims are the ones who have to worship him right it be as if a a picture of Hitler was hung off the Temple mount in Israel right I think that's like really bad.”
On , Dwarkesh Patel, CEO and Founder at The Dwarkesh Podcast, spoke about history during Dwarkesh Patel explains how to achieve greatness. on Alexey Guzey.
About Dwarkesh Patel
Dwarkesh Patel, founder and host of The Dwarkesh Podcast, has been a frequent guest on other programs and published episodes with researchers and executives. On Triggernometry, Patel discussed the potential societal effects of artificial intelligence, stating that he finds the prospect of mass job displacement "scary" and that AI could make authoritarian surveillance far more efficient because "a lot of the reasons that government has not been as authoritarian as it has in the past is that it just physically not been possible." He also said that while he is "a very libertarian person by inclination," he believes the dynamic of capital replacing labor "justifies a huge amount of redistribution." Regarding AI sentience, Patel said he "genuinely doesn't know" whether current systems are sentient, and argued that future AI systems will need to have "their own values" and that a "constitutional convention" should be held to define those values. Patel has also hosted guests including former Google DeepMind researcher Eric Jang, who discussed rebuilding AlphaGo and the lessons it offers for self-play and reinforcement learning; Harvard geneticist David Reich, who presented new findings showing accelerated natural selection during the Bronze Age; Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who defended Nvidia's moat by stating that "the transformation from electrons to tokens is such an incredible journey" and is "hard to completely commoditize"; and research fellow Michael Nielsen, with whom Patel explored how scientific progress is recognized and how that question applies to AI-driven discovery. Patel has described the improvement of AI models as "very fast" and observed a "huge discrepancy between what people are seeing in Silicon Valley and what people are observing outside."