Dwarkesh

speaker

1,722 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 25 Nov

Dwarkesh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Nov 2025 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Dwarkesh Podcast · Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper · 24 Apr 2025 podcast

What causes it to reemerge?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, just a couple more rapid-fire questions for you.

Have you found tools like deep research useful for especially your kind of work where you just have to compile insights for many different fields?

If you throw in a question, the kinds of questions you honestly investigate, and now maybe they can rely on you as a citation for those particular questions about what effect did climate have on the fate of Rome or something.

But if you just had a different question, which maybe you'd write a book about in the future, how well do they do at synthesizing this kind of literature and coming up with a thesis the way you do?

Oh, really?

That fast?

It's, like, become so central to your work?

Have you used deep research?

I don't know how long it's been around.

It's not that much longer.

Yeah.

And then I want to touch on your next book that isn't out yet, The Last Animal, which

One question I have is, basically, how worried should we be about extinction, given that we're on the cusp of technologies which will make it possible for us to reanimate many lost species?

I assume if you have their genome or something, our descendants will be able to make more woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers and so forth.

So...

Should we discount the value of endangered species as a result?

I think that's an excellent note to close on.

Just to plug one more time, we've been discussing plagues upon the earth, which is the history of disease going back through the Neolithic to modern times.

Showing 781–800 of 1,722 · page 40 of 87