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17 published records
“You might imagine the opposite, given that the experience of a university student is often that the expert teaching them is not necessarily the best explainer of that topic, because they’re so spoiled by their expertise.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Just because a couple lightning bolts have been thrown… I think there’s this flourishing future over the next couple years of really connecting.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“When the AI came up with that counterexample to the unit distance conjecture, you can just read its chain of thought. It’s not understandable to me, because I don’t know anything about mathematics, but it seems that to other mathematicians it was understandable.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I don’t know if it was over lunch or something like that, but you have this number theorist who is just trying to understand the statistical correlation between pairs of zeros of the Riemann zeta function.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Going back to Riemann hypothesis solutions, what would that look like if an AI solves it? I think a third way it could happen is it just straight-up works harder.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Also, has it not? I agree there are many ways in which they’re terrible writers.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I think the real credit though, you have to back up a bit and talk about Lagrange.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I really like this because even though it seems like a totally random skill… It’s just like, people are talking about recursive self-improvement in a year, and we can’t get these things to write good flashcards.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I don’t know if it’s these step changes, but maybe it’s more on the side of engine design becoming a little bit more fluid, or coming up with the right wing shape instead of running a whole bunch of complicated CFD.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“You’ve got an institution around that, and a whole bureaucracy acting as a proxy for what we think that public good is, with a whole song and dance around how to make them correctly predict that your progress will be in the spirit of that funding.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“My advice to any college student when they’re choosing what courses to take: care a little bit less about your preexisting interests, because they’re kind of arbitrary right now, and care a little bit more about whether the person teaching it is a good educator and someone you resonate with.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I think the more relevant thing is: what is the data on which whatever architecture or loss function you have is incentivizing you to produce?”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“What’s interesting is that we started doing this over a year ago, and it’s fun to see a little bit of a tone shift in the way they talk about AI between mid-2025 and where we are now in 2026.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Because websites have bot detectors—and it takes a tremendous amount of compute to run parallel rollouts—it’s very hard to run a thousand parallel rollouts of the same checkout flow on Amazon.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“With the whole AI and math project underway, as you point out, one of the reasons it’s interesting at all is that there’s a spiky frontier to AI, and math is just right there in one of the spikes. But there’s a fractal nature to that spikiness, because when you zoom into the specific progress within math, you have some things that are a lot easier than others.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“If we take that conversation between Montgomery and Dyson at the IAS that suggests some connection between the Riemann hypothesis—or the Riemann zeta-function zeros—and random matrices, that feels like the kind of thing that you could try to automate.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Because it’s deterministic, you can solve the credit assignment problem because you know that whatever caused this rollout to succeed and this one to fail, the diff is the thing that worked.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast