Dwarkesh Podcast / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
Claim mix
Evidence policy
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Claim ledger
24 published records
01 / evaluation
“The native infrastructure that we had — that was specifically earmarked for dealing with public health emergencies — was extremely incompetent to the extent that Discord servers vastly outperformed them.”
02 / belief
“The Wall Street Journal had never been wrong in my experience as a 19-year-old who knew nothing about anything.”
03 / commitment
“Please tweet at me if I'm wrong in 2030. I will happily eat crow. I want to eat crow.”
04 / uncertainty
“I don't know if I'm inserting those words into his mouth. The suggestion was genuinely his.”
05 / uncertainty
“Effectively every time we had a verbal green light with regards to money, I would advance the company, the charity… Charities are companies, by the way. I don't know if that is obvious.”
06 / commitment
“" Very plausibly, we should get on the nightly news and say, "I received the following email from the White House that says we should stop this everywhere.” If you point a gun at me, I will comply with this at the point of a gun.”
07 / belief
“I agree that it shouldn't be up to tech to solve this huge society-wide problem.”
08 / belief
“We realized that with LLMs, it's going to be a bad deal with regards to privacy.”
09 / uncertainty
“Oh, goodness. I don't know about the productivity numbers. Generally, I do know that Steam keeps a counter of how much I'm playing video games in a year.”
10 / evaluation
“There is one tiny actor who understands that he has unitary control over some decisions, and who is capable of betting boldly on those without a huge amount of process when it is important to bet boldly on things.”
11 / commitment
“If people counterfactually point to say, World War II, I will say read more history there.”
12 / evaluation
“Interestingly, I was a marketing engineer earlier in my career and really thought that was important.”
13 / uncertainty
“Honestly, I don't know where to begin with some of these things. I want to understand a bunch of that.”
14 / belief
“Here I have to stop for a disclaimer. I think people in county health departments did real important work.”
15 / disagreement
“If you tell me something which says the laws of physics have been suspended and will be in the future, I won't agree with that.”
16 / evaluation
“It’s partly because of political incentives and because we're approaching an election year. It’s also because of the quirky way that American parties and candidates bounce off each other.”
17 / evaluation
“" A thing that might not be obvious to most people in the world is that AppAmaGooBookSoft literally have teams of people whose job is public health because they are the operating system of the world right now.”
18 / preference
“Crypto fans would not like to hear it from me. So I prefer Vitalik Buterin's articulation of this question from 2017.”
19 / prediction
“Maybe because we thought we had very limited state capacity at the time, the government would make rational decisions and go after $10-100 million enormous white collar crooks and drug trafficking cartels a year.”
20 / evaluation
“" Amazon would say, "we literally do that every day." They say, “back in December, people were saying on the news this would be an unprecedented logistics challenge because the vaccine has to be kept at ultra-low temperatures.”
21 / preference
“If I had ended up working in a water treatment plant, I'd probably be writing about water treatment plants because I enjoy writing.”
22 / evaluation
“He says very loudly that the reason why he got this opportunity to do bitcoin arbitrage between Japan and the United States is because he was able to do something that the rest of the world wasn't.”
23 / uncertainty
“” I'm thinking to myself, how is this not as trivial a problem as, “hey XYZ, if you give me money that you can find between your couch cushions, we will save thousands of lives and get the world economy back on track.”
24 / recommendation
“I would tell that individual to go to the county website and tell whatever lies are necessary to get an appointment with me. They come in for an appointment and I will inject them rather than verifying the lies that were on the appointment card because basically eff the rules.”