Dwarkesh Podcast
Episodes 142 total
Stephen Grugett (Manifold Markets Founder) - Predictions Markets & Revolutionizing Governance
Stephen Grugett is a cofounder of Manifold Markets, where anyone can create a prediction market. We discuss how prediction markets can change how countries and…
Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern 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 mili…
Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science
Razib Khan is a writer, geneticist, and blogger with an interest in history, genetics, culture, and evolutionary psychology.Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Po…
Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia
Jimmy Soni is the author of The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley.Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotif…
Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness
I interview the economist Bryan Caplan about his new book, Labor Econ Versus the World, and many other related topics.Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics a…
Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness
Richard Hanania is the President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology and the author of Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strat…
David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes
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.Wat…
Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies
Byrne Hobart writes The Diff, a newsletter about inflections in finance and technology with 24,000+ subscribers. Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Sp…
David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation
David Friedman is a famous anarcho-capitalist economist and legal scholar. Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform.E…
Sarah Fitz-Claridge - Taking Children Seriously
Sarah Fitz-Claridge is a writer, coach, and speaker with a fallibilist worldview. She started the journal that became Taking Children Seriously in the early 199…
Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress
Michael Huemer is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado. He is the author of more than sixty academic articles in epistemology, ethics, metaet…
Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code
Robert Martin (aka Uncle Bob) is a programming pioneer and bestselling author or Clean Code. We discuss the prospect of automating programming, spotting and dev…
Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity
Scott Aaronson is a Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, and director of its Quantum Information Center. He's the author of…
Scott Young - Ultralearning
Scott is the author of Ultralearning and famous for the MIT Challenge, where he taught himself MIT's 4 year Computer Science curriculum in 1 year.I had a b…
Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty
I ask Charles Murray about Human Accomplishment, By The People, and The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead. Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, S…
Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods
Alex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University and with Tyler Cowen a founder of the online education platform http://MRU.org.I ask Alex T…
Caleb Watney - America's Innovation Engine
Caleb Watney is the director of innovation policy at the Progressive Policy Institute.Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast…
Robin Hanson - The Long View
Robin Hanson 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://…
Jason Crawford - The Roots of Progress
Jason Crawford writes at The Roots of Progress about the history of technology and industry and the philosophy of progress. Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple P…
Matjaž Leonardis - Science, Identity, and Probability
Matjaž Leonardis has co-written a paper with David Deutsch about the Popper-Miller Theorem. In this episode, we talk about that as well as the dangers of the sc…