A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become mandatory listening in the AI community, with guests like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg
Dwarkesh Patel was a bored college sophomore looking for intellectual stimulation. Now he commands interviews with Jensen Huang …
New York Times Benjamin Wallace
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@_aashishreddy
Aashish Reddy
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I don't think I knew this, quite funny: [image]
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@stuartbuck1
Stuart Buck
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The second time I ever talked to Dwarkesh (late 2022), he was thinking of quitting the podcast and going for a more traditional software engineering job. Glad he hung in there! https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@patrick_oshag
Patrick OShaughnessy
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This is a great profile of @dwarkesh_sp He is excellent at what he does. One of the few podcasts I listen to virtually every episode, knowing it'll be deep, unique, and impeccably well researched. Good person, doing great work. Have a read: https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@singhjyotirmai
Jyotirmai Singh
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Pretty based from @dwarkesh_sp hahaha Check out the @nytimes profile here: https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
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@anecdotal
Hollis Robbins
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The visuals of this piece show how @dwarkesh_sp's success is higher ed's failure. Bored at @UTAustin, he reaches out to higher ed critic @bryan_caplan, moves to SF, goes to a @stripepress event, meets @tamarawinter. Studies hard. The rest is history. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@creatine_cycle
Atlas
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brother if the NYT said this about me i would be so happy i would literally die [image]
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@chandrarsrikant
Chandra R. Srikanth
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“Mr. Patel's assistant is the brother of Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei's chief of staff, who is in turn the fiancée of Leopold Aschenbrenner, Mr. Patel's friend and former podcast guest from whose multibillion-dollar A.I.-focused investment fund, Situational Awareness,
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@curiouswavefn
Ash Jogalekar
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Must-read profile of @dwarkesh_sp in the NYT (bonus lame conspiracy theorist comment in comments section included) https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@sarthakgh
Sar Haribhakti
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“One of the reasons smart, rich, busy people like to appear on his podcast is that Mr. Patel goes sufficiently deep in the weeds to ask questions no one else would. He'll spend up to two weeks preparing for an interview, using flash cards to help master the material, writing
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@jjvincent
James Vincent
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nice to know that dwarkesh respects the industrial/intellectual might of the midlands https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]