Episode
#265: Dwarkesh Patel – The Future, Technology, & Important Problems
1:03:12
Published: Fri Oct 21 2022
Description
Dwarkesh Patel is the host of The Lunar Society – a podcast that interviews intellectuals, scientists, and founders. He's also a writer and an interesting thinker. In this post, we spoke about Dwarkesh getting followed by Jeff Bezos, what the future is going to be like, the most important problems, high volatility, and his interesting challenge to the audience. (0:00) High School Debate (4:10) Jeff Bezos Following Dwarkesh (9:36) Programming, Writing (11:23) Podcasting (14:26) Tyler Cowen (15:42) High Volatility (20:50) Dwarkesh’s Path (23:20) The Future (37:35) Important Problems (47:07) Quote From Dwarkesh (55:58) Changing Thinking (57:03) Dwarkesh’s Most Underrated Episode (58:22) Dwarkesh vs. Lex (1:00:58) Challenge Dwarkesh's Links Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Website: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/ The mystery of the miracle year by Dwarkesh Patel – https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/annus-mirabilis My Links ✉️ Newsletter: https://dannymiranda.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: https://anchor.fm/dannymiranda 🐣 Twitter: https://twitter.com/heydannymiranda 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/heydannymiranda 🕺 TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@heydannymiranda
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Summary
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Episode#265: Dwarkesh Patel – The Future, Technology, & Important Problems
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Episode#265: Dwarkesh Patel – The Future, Technology, & Important Problems
PodcastThe Danny Miranda Podcast
The speaker compares the competence and talent found in places like Silicon Valley to the government's lack thereof.
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Summary
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Episode#265: Dwarkesh Patel – The Future, Technology, & Important Problems
PodcastThe Danny Miranda Podcast
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Summary
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Episode#265: Dwarkesh Patel – The Future, Technology, & Important Problems
PodcastThe Danny Miranda Podcast
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Summary
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