Dwarkesh
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first heard Apr 2025
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Why would other firms even exist?
Could the first business to automate everything just form a massive conglomerate and take over the entire economy?
While internal planning can be more efficient than market competition in the short term, it needs to be balanced by some slower but unbiased external feedback.
A company that grows too large risks having its internal goals drift away from market reality.
That said, the balance may shift as AI systems improve.
AI corporations will be more software-like, with perfect replication of successful subdivisions and faster feedback loops.
And this internal planning system needs to be connected to some measure of real success or failure.
And this is exactly what the market provides.
Dwarkesh Podcast · Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper · 24 Apr 2025
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Today, I have the pleasure of chatting with Kyle Harper, who is a professor and provost emeritus at the University of Oklahoma and the author of some really interesting books, The Fate of Rome, Plagues Upon the Earth, Slavery in the Late Roman World.
upcoming one called The Last Animal.
The reason I wanted to have you on is because I don't think I've encountered that many other authors who can connect biology, economics, history, climate into explaining some of the big things that have happened through human history in the way you can.
The most recent reason I wanted to have you on is I interviewed David Reich, the geneticist of ancient DNA, and some of the questions we were discussing, he kept emphasizing this
overwhelming role and surprising role that diseases have had in human history, not just in the recent past, but, I mean, in his work going back, like, thousands of years, tens of thousands of years.
And he's like, you've got to have Kyle on.
I email him afterwards, like, who should I interview next?
And he's like, you've got to have Kyle on.
You have this graph in The Fate of Rome.
Yeah, you show human population over the last few thousand years.
I assume that these two downspikes are both the bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, right?
Yeah.
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