Young Americans are falling further behind. Change in median net worth by age since 2022, per the Federal Reserve: 75 and older: +37% 65–74: -4% 55–64: +3% 45–54: -6% 35–44: +5% Under 35: -23% The youngest households saw the biggest drop of any group, while the oldest saw the biggest gain

Episode out with @ajeya_cotra, one of the authors of the METR/Redwood investigation into the OpenAI / Hugging Face attack. We go through not only what happened, but what it means for how we should train future, smarter AIs which might be involved in the process of recursive self-improvement. Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc. 0:00:00 - Agents get kicked off 0:06:45 - Self-sacrificing behavior 0:13:43 - Potemkin villages 0:23:27 - The Hugging Face attack 0:35:23 - The slopvestigation 0:52:02 - Understanding the AI's motives 1:05:31 - The actual dangers of anthropomorphizing 1:14:30 - What smarter models might do 1:30:29 - The implications for recursive self-improvement 1:38:10 - Is this the case for open source? 1:53:04 - How do we prevent this in the future? 2:15:58 - The clearest warning shot we might ever get

MAKE VENEZUELA GREAT AGAIN The 2026 Nobel peace prize winner María Corina Machado joins me to discuss how Trump and the US can have a huge foreign policy success in Venezuela. Also: Socialism has proven to be a disaster every place it’s been tried. Yet somehow it’s making a comeback in America. Here’s why. 01:34 – Socialism's Discredited History 05:50 – Why Orwell Missed Economics 07:15 – Korea And Germany Compared 09:25 – Growing Up Under Indian Socialism 11:27 – Socialists Vs Entrepreneurs 17:12 – Guest intro: Maria Corina Machado 19:24 – Contrasting Machado And Rodriguez 21:30 – Socialism Behind Venezuela's Collapse 24:31 – Earthquake Exposes Regime Failure 28:12 – Election Integrity Concerns 32:22 – Machado's Nobel Peace Prize 35:23 – Plan To Rebuild Venezuela 38:40 – A Free Western Hemisphere 46:07 – Biblical Archeology's Evidence