Dwarkesh Patel
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Dwarkesh Patel is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between August 23, 2022 and January 21, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “interviewed by Dwarkesh Patel”; “Dwarkesh Patel kindly invited me and Daniel on his podcast”; “Dwarkesh Patel: Okay, okay, calm down”. It most often appears alongside 80,000 Hours, China, Eli Lifland.
Metadata
- Category: People
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: August 23, 2022
- Last seen: January 21, 2026
Appears In
- Book Review: What We Owe The Future
- Introducing AI 2027
- What Is Man, That Thou Art Mindful Of Him?
- Highlights From The Comments On Scott Adams
Related Pages
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- 80,000 Hours (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- Eli Lifland (2 shared issues)
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- Ezra Klein (2 shared issues)
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- Matt Yglesias (2 shared issues)
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- New York Times (2 shared issues)
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- Tyler Cowen (2 shared issues)
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- 4chan (1 shared issues)
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- @Ashwin V (1 shared issues)
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- @disgruntledcho1 (1 shared issues)
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- @Eigengender (1 shared issues)
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- A16Z (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
If the point of publishing a book is to have a public relations campaign, Will MacAskill is the greatest English writer since Shakespeare. He and his book What We Owe The Future have recently been featured in the New Yorker, New York Times, Vox, NPR, BBC, The Atlantic, Wired, and Boston Review. He’s been interviewed by Sam Harris, Ezra Klein, Tim Ferriss, Dwarkesh Patel, and Tyler Cowen. Tweeted about by Elon Musk, Andrew Yang, and Matt Yglesias. The publicity spike is no mystery: the effective altruist movement is well-funded and well-organized, they decided to burn “long-termism” into the collective consciousness, and they sure succeeded.
Inline links: What We Owe The Future, New Yorker, New York Times, Vox, NPR, BBC, The Atlantic, Wired, Boston Review, Sam Harris, Ezra Klein, Tim Ferriss, Dwarkesh Patel, Tyler Cowen, Elon Musk, Andrew Yang, Matt Yglesias
Dwarkesh Patel kindly invited me and Daniel on his podcast (sponsored by Jane Street, who also sponsored SSC many years ago!) to promote and explain the scenario. I don’t usually do podcasts, and I worry I was a bit of a third wheel in this one, but I’m hoping that my celebrity will get people to pay attention to what Daniel‘s saying. Think of it as “International aid expert discusses the Ethiopian famine with concerned Hollywood actor,” with me in the role of the actor, and you won’t be disappointed.
Inline links: Jane Street
Dwarkesh Patel: Okay, okay, calm down. One way of reconciling your beliefs is that although humans aren’t very smart now, their architecture encodes some insights which, given bigger brains, could -
Dwarkesh Patel: I think what God meant to say was that humans aren’t bitmaps or encyclopedias. There’s some sense in which a map like this is really a sign of an advanced mind. This person has the shape of Europe indexed in a compressed way, with a focus on the areas that are most important to them. They don’t need to remember the exact shape of every coastline and inlet and be able to construct them freehand.
Dwarkesh Patel: Wow, that’s pretty weird!
Dwarkesh Patel: 1,000