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    Patrick McKenzie - How a Discord Server Saved Thousands of Lives

    Patrick McKenzie - How a Discord Server Saved Thousands of Lives

    I talked with Patrick McKenzie (known online as patio11) about how a small team he ran over a Discord server got vaccines into Americans' arms: A story of broken incentives, outrageous incompetence, and how a few individuals with high agency saved 1000s of lives.
    Enjoy!
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    Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes.
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    Timestamps
    (00:00:00) – Why hackers on Discord had to save thousands of lives
    (00:17:26) – How politics crippled vaccine distribution
    (00:38:19) – Fundraising for VaccinateCA
    (00:51:09) – Why tech needs to understand how government works
    (00:58:58) – What is crypto good for?
    (01:13:07) – How the US government leverages big tech to violate rights
    (01:24:36) – Can the US have nice things like Japan?
    (01:26:41) – Financial plumbing & money laundering: a how-not-to guide
    (01:37:42) – Maximizing your value: why some people negotiate better
    (01:42:14) – Are young people too busy playing Factorio to found startups?
    (01:57:30) – The need for a post-mortem


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    • 2 hrs 1 min
    Tony Blair - Life of a PM, The Deep State, Lee Kuan Yew, & AI's 1914 Moment

    Tony Blair - Life of a PM, The Deep State, Lee Kuan Yew, & AI's 1914 Moment

    I chatted with Tony Blair about:
    - What he learned from Lee Kuan Yew
    - Intelligence agencies track record on Iraq & Ukraine
    - What he tells the dozens of world leaders who come seek advice from him
    - How much of a PM’s time is actually spent governing
    - What will AI’s July 1914 moment look like from inside the Cabinet?
    Enjoy!
    Watch the video on YouTube. Read the full transcript here.
    Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes.
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    Timestamps
    (00:00:00) – A prime minister’s constraints
    (00:04:12) – CEOs vs. politicians
    (00:10:31) – COVID, AI, & how government deals with crisis
    (00:21:24) – Learning from Lee Kuan Yew
    (00:27:37) – Foreign policy & intelligence
    (00:31:12) – How much leadership actually matters
    (00:35:34) – Private vs. public tech
    (00:39:14) – Advising global leaders
    (00:46:45) – The unipolar moment in the 90s


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    • 52 min
    Francois Chollet, Mike Knoop - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution

    Francois Chollet, Mike Knoop - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution

    Here is my conversation with Francois Chollet and Mike Knoop on the $1 million ARC-AGI Prize they're launching today.
    I did a bunch of socratic grilling throughout, but Francois’s arguments about why LLMs won’t lead to AGI are very interesting and worth thinking through.
    It was really fun discussing/debating the cruxes. Enjoy!
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    Timestamps
    (00:00:00) – The ARC benchmark
    (00:11:10) – Why LLMs struggle with ARC
    (00:19:00) – Skill vs intelligence
    (00:27:55) - Do we need “AGI” to automate most jobs?
    (00:48:28) – Future of AI progress: deep learning + program synthesis
    (01:00:40) – How Mike Knoop got nerd-sniped by ARC
    (01:08:37) – Million $ ARC Prize
    (01:10:33) – Resisting benchmark saturation
    (01:18:08) – ARC scores on frontier vs open source models
    (01:26:19) – Possible solutions to ARC Prize


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    • 1 hr 33 min
    Leopold Aschenbrenner - China/US Super Intelligence Race, 2027 AGI, & The Return of History

    Leopold Aschenbrenner - China/US Super Intelligence Race, 2027 AGI, & The Return of History

    Chatted with my friend Leopold Aschenbrenner on the trillion dollar nationalized cluster, CCP espionage at AI labs, how unhobblings and scaling can lead to 2027 AGI, dangers of outsourcing clusters to Middle East, leaving OpenAI, and situational awareness.
    Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Read the full transcript here.
    Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes. Follow Leopold on Twitter.
    Timestamps
    (00:00:00) – The trillion-dollar cluster and unhobbling
    (00:20:31) – AI 2028: The return of history
    (00:40:26) – Espionage & American AI superiority
    (01:08:20) – Geopolitical implications of AI
    (01:31:23) – State-led vs. private-led AI
    (02:12:23) – Becoming Valedictorian of Columbia at 19
    (02:30:35) – What happened at OpenAI
    (02:45:11) – Accelerating AI research progress
    (03:25:58) – Alignment
    (03:41:26) – On Germany, and understanding foreign perspectives
    (03:57:04) – Dwarkesh’s immigration story and path to the podcast
    (04:07:58) – Launching an AGI hedge fund
    (04:19:14) – Lessons from WWII
    (04:29:08) – Coda: Frederick the Great


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    • 4 hrs 31 min
    John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) - Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI

    John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) - Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI

    Chatted with John Schulman (cofounded OpenAI and led ChatGPT creation) on how posttraining tames the shoggoth, and the nature of the progress to come...
    Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Read the full transcript here. Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes.
    Timestamps
    (00:00:00) - Pre-training, post-training, and future capabilities
    (00:16:57) - Plan for AGI 2025
    (00:29:19) - Teaching models to reason
    (00:40:50) - The Road to ChatGPT
    (00:52:13) - What makes for a good RL researcher?
    (01:00:58) - Keeping humans in the loop
    (01:15:15) - State of research, plateaus, and moats
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    • 1 hr 36 min
    Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus

    Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus

    Mark Zuckerberg on:
    - Llama 3
    - open sourcing towards AGI
    - custom silicon, synthetic data, & energy constraints on scaling
    - Caesar Augustus, intelligence explosion, bioweapons, $10b models, & much more
    Enjoy!
    Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Human edited transcript with helpful links here.
    Timestamps
    (00:00:00) - Llama 3
    (00:08:32) - Coding on path to AGI
    (00:25:24) - Energy bottlenecks
    (00:33:20) - Is AI the most important technology ever?
    (00:37:21) - Dangers of open source
    (00:53:57) - Caesar Augustus and metaverse
    (01:04:53) - Open sourcing the $10b model & custom silicon
    (01:15:19) - Zuck as CEO of Google+
    Sponsors
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    • 1 hr 17 min

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