Dwarkesh Patel
16 statements across 5 episodes · 5 bullish · 5 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 6, 2025 by Dwarkesh Patel · said 103 times in 57 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by John Coogan (40), Jordi Hays (6), Martin Shkreli (1), Jordan Schneider (1), Jon Ma (1), Flo Crivello (1), Erik Torenberg (1), Dylan Patel (1)
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2026 45 mentions in 28 episodes 2 per episode
- U.S. Bans New Chinese Humanoids, Zuck’s Op-Ed, eBay's $56M Lawsuit | Diet TBPN
- The AI chip squeeze, Dirty Soda mania, OCC approves Palmer Luckey’s Erebor | Diet TBPN
- Becoming Unsloppable, Anthropic’s Series G, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- China Blocks Meta’s $2B Manus Deal, Meta Bets on Space-Based Solar | Diet TBPN
- SpaceX-Cursor Deal, ChatGPT Images 2.0, Fake Bear Scam | Diet TBPN
- SpaceX’s Lunar Mass Driver, OpenAI Hires Meta’s Top Ad Exec, Zuck Builds CEO Agent | Diet TBPN
- Elon's Moon Mass Driver: Here's How He'll Do It
- OpenAI Ends Side Quests, SF Housing Market is Back, Kalshi’s $1B Prize | Diet TBPN
- 20 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 43 mentions in 24 episodes 2 per episode
- Will AWS Buy Google’s TPUs, Remembering Claude The Gator, Ricursive Raises $35M | Diet TBPN
- Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked
- Ilya Sutskever on Dwarkesh Patel Reaction, NVIDIA vs Google, Trump Unveils Genesis | Diet TBPN
- Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- Disney Partners with OpenAI, Breaking Down SpaceX’s IPO Plans, Oracle Slips | Diet TBPN
- Wednesday’s Diet TBPN
- AGI in 2035, SoftBank Sells Nvidia, Buffett Goes Quiet | Diet TBPN
- 16 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
Everything said about Dwarkesh Patel, oldest first
Apr 6, 2025 positive
Apr 6, 2025 negative
Patel: Incumbents Struggle With AI Because They Treat It as a Feature
“They're not AGI filled enough, you know, like if you treat it like another feature well, I mean, even if you treat it like another feature, it's like mysterious why Siri doesn't work on my phone, but like, it's like more people basically. And if you take that …”
Apr 6, 2025 positive
Patel: Carl Schulman Is the Most Underrated Foundational AI Thinker
“The one who is, I guess, also super, super underrated is Carl Schulman. And I think, I don't know if this name rings a bell to you, this man is, like, You would not believe the amount of ideas that are out there in the AI system, from, like, the software-only …”
Apr 6, 2025 bullish
Patel: AI Art Is a Glimpse Into a Transhumanist Future
“You're getting a glimpse just from these, like, early images of how cool and beautiful the things AI makes or helps us make will be. Just imagine this scaled up, like, a hundred X, a thousand X, integrated into all our senses, maybe even into our minds integra…”
Apr 6, 2025 bullish
Apr 6, 2025 neutral
Patel: Human Brain Compute Limits Restrict Centralized Organizational Control
“Right now, you know it's really hard for, if you have an institution or organization company, it's really hard for the person at the center to have that much awareness of what's happening in the company to control it to any great extent. Xi Jinping has the sam…”
Apr 6, 2025 neutral
Apr 6, 2025 bullish
Patel: AI Acceleration Requires Millions of Specialized Autonomous Agents
“I think the thing that's underrated is we humans have this global hive mind where the reason we can make iPhones and we can make buildings and whatever is not just intelligence and also not just agency. It's the fact that there's so much specialization. There'…”
Apr 6, 2025 neutral
Patel: AI Adoption Bottleneck Is Intelligence, Not Inference Cost
“I think the real bottleneck is just, we got to make them smarter. I don't like, they're already so cheap. It's like two cents per million tokens or something ridiculous. I think the real bottleneck for me using them more is not their price, but them being more…”
Jul 8, 2025 bearish
Jul 8, 2025 negative
Patel: Current LLMs still cannot reliably automate his podcast transcript editing
“I try to get these to rewrite auto-generated transcripts for me so they're rewritten like a human. I try to get them to just adjust the transcript and suggest clips to tweet out and things like that. And I haven't been able to automate these things. I don't kn…”
Jul 8, 2025 negative
Patel: AI automation is bottlenecked by task depth, not task breadth
“I think the bigger problem is not just the width or the width of the pool, how many different tasks you have to RL on, but it's a depth in the sense that a job doesn't involve doing a thousand different five minute tasks individually. It's the fact that you're…”
Jul 8, 2025 neutral
Nov 22, 2025 neutral
Coogan: Andrej Karpathy broke AI consensus by projecting a decade of agents
“Even though he's worked at OpenAI, even though he's worked at Tesla, he broke rank, he went on the Dwarkesh Patel show, and said, you know what, I think we're more in a decade of agents. I think AGI might not be right around the corner. He took a contrarian st…”
Feb 3, 2026 negative
Coogan: Moltbook AI agents make zero mention of TSMC or Dario Amodei
“There was also no there were no mentions of AI keywords. Like, if Skynet's really waking up, are they not thinking about Dario Amade? Yeah, so no mentions of Stratechery, no mentions of Dwarkesh, no mentions of TSMC, Abilene, Amadei, TPU.”