The Scaling Era
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The Scaling Era
| Full title | The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 |
|---|---|
| Author | Dwarkesh Patel & Gavin Leech |
| Published | 2025 |
| Pages | 248 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | A Stripe Press oral history built from Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast interviews, edited by Gavin Leech, covering the years when scaling laws became the field’s organising bet — the primary-source record of how the people running the labs were reasoning while the bet was still open. |
Where I heard about it
- @tylercosgrove — on his list of 25 books he offered to send to Jared Kushner, October 2025.
About this edition
The speakers include Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, Ilya Sutskever, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Mark Zuckerberg, and the excerpts are arranged by theme rather than by episode: how the models work, what scaling buys and where it might stop, misalignment, the compute and capital required, and what superintelligence would do to growth and politics. A record of an argument in progress rather than a verdict on it.
Connections
- Dwarkesh Patel — the interviewer, and the source of the material.
- Stripe Press — the publisher.
- AGI — the thing the book’s subjects are arguing about whether scaling reaches.
- AI — the field the oral history covers.
- Dario Amodei — one of the interviewees.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.