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Dylan Patel – Two labs will soon control most of the world's workforce

Dwarkesh Patel

Had a lot of fun chatting again with my twin brother Dylan Patel. We went through lab economics over the next few years - the shift from inference to training as RSI draws near; and how Anthropic and OpenAI are on track to control most of the world’s usable FLOPs within the next few years (because they can monetize compute better and thus outbid everyone). And then we discuss whether the $10T+ of total AI capex we’ll see by the end of the decade will cause a sovereign debt crisis, where hyperscaler debt raises interest rates, drives non-AI exposed countries into bankruptcy, and crashes non-AI

Sarah Paine — Why wars are so difficult to end

This is the final lecture in our series with Sarah Paine, and it's a fitting place to end. Sarah tackles war termination: why wars are easy to start, hard to end, and even harder to end on the terms y