Can someone throw some light on this Dwarkesh character? He landed a Zucc podcast pretty early on... how connected is he? Is he an industry plant?
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He spends weeks reading everything by his guests prior to the interview, asks excellent questions, pushes back, etc.
He certainly has blind spots and biases just like anyone else. For example, he is very AI scale-pilled. However, he will have people like today’s guests on which contradict his biases. This is something a host like Lex could never do apparently.
Dwarkesh is up there with Sean Carrol’s podcast as the most interesting and most intellectually honest in my view.