Dwarkesh podcast with Noam Brown: math progress, multi-agent systems, and verifying alignment before RSI
morqon · x · 2026-09-18
Dwarkesh Patel releases a new episode with Noam Brown covering multi-agent systems, the Navier-Stokes problem, and what the current explosion of mathematical progress tells us about automating AI research. Key threads: how AI firms will be structured, what math breakthroughs imply for recursive self-improvement, the growing internal/external model gap, and why chain-of-thought is degrading. The episode closes on the central question of how we would actually know if models are aligned before kicking off RSI.
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