Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential"

Re:Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" by DarkCrusader2 on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:26PM (#47005949)

Yeah I also don't understand how he is able to get such high profile guests. His interview with Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer last year[1] is so hilariously bad. Jeff and Noam kept trying to give really insightful answers on how they see AI development shaping in coming years and he was just steering the conversation to shallow and silly tabloid gossip (why don't you "just" let AI improve the next version in a loop so we can quickly have singularity, Jeff Dean AI running in a DC, evil Jeff Dean AI escaping containment and on and on). It was just embarrassing. The interview would have been so much better with just Jeff and Noam without him.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0gjI__RyCY

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Re:Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" by alephnerd on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:31PM (#47006011)

> I also don't understand how he is able to get such high profile guests

His reach. He's an Indian Lex Friedman (and I mean that derogatorily [edit: what I mean is I dislike Lex Friedman's lack of substance and oversimplification of extremely complex subjects, and how Dwarkesh uses a similar tack]), but as such has significant reach.

Now that Indian consumers have now become a major bloc in most Western social media platforms, more Dwarkeshes will enter western discourse.

Furthermore, unlike Chinese, Indians overwhelmingly use Western platforms, and Indian policymakers have begun using this consumer power to push western companies to collocate and shift the center of gravity to Indian offices.

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Re:Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" by Philpax on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:38PM (#47006092)

Wow! Congratulations on being insanely racist!

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Re:Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" by phainopepla2 on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:27PM (#47007403)

Which part is racist exactly?

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Re:Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" by co_king_3 on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:39PM (#47006100)

Yeah I thought this was extremely racist even for HackerNews.

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Re:Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" by alephnerd on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:41PM (#47006127)

How? I think both Lex Friedman and Dwarkesh Patel provide little substance and only sizzle.

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Re:Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" by DarkCrusader2 on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:41PM (#47006118)

I highly doubt that. "The algorithm" will surely adjust the recommendations per geography. I don't think most westerners are getting T-Series recommendation in their feed as well.

> He's an Indian Lex Friedman (and I mean that derogatorily)

I might be reading this wrong, but sounds kinda racist to me?

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Re:Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" by preuceian on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:02PM (#47006388)

The insult is that hes similar to Lex Fridman, not that hes Indian.

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Re:Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" by GorbachevyChase on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:58PM (#47006331)

I could see a cynical media mogul seeing that market as a box that needs to be checked. I wonder who makes those decisions, though. Spotify?

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Re:Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" by dang on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:33PM (#47008755)

We detached this flamewar subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005949.

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Re:Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" by alephnerd on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:56PM (#47008967)

I didn't mean for this to become a flame war (I think the comment was misinterpreted) br feel free to delete it!

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