Exploring Intellectual Liquidity Providers and the Role of AI

We chat about:

-the future of intellectual liquidity providers with AI aggregators

-reflecting on his guests on The Lunar Society

-the relative value of verbal intelligence and charisma in the coming years

Dwarkesh Patel is a recent college graduate and the host of his podcast and Substack called The Lunar Society. In his podcast, he interviews scientists, historians, economists, and intellectuals across disciplines – some of his guests include Marc Andreessen, Nat Friedman, Tyler Cowen, and Will MacAskill. In his interviews and his writing, Dwarkesh explores and discusses some of the most relevant ideas to modern society including the heritability of intelligence, the tradeoffs between different immigration policies, and the first and second-order impacts of AI.