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Dwarkesh Patel
All Briefs
Adam Marblestone – AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
What are we scaling?
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft is preparing for AGI
Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise
The Secret Behind Western Economic Growth - Sarah Paine
Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”
“I find it almost disturbing that the universe favors life this strongly” – Nick Lane
Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China
Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)
Attacking America Is a Devastating Miscalculation – Sarah Paine
Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview)
Sarah Paine — The war for India (lecture & interview)
The caste system transformed Indian genetics – David Reich
David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago
Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters
How Much Will China Risk for Taiwan? – Sarah Paine (Naval War College)
Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake