“If I do an AI interview where I’m interviewing Demis [Hassabis], CEO of DeepMind, I’ll probably have read most of DeepMind's papers from the last couple of years. I've literally talked to a dozen AI researchers in preparation for that interview — just weeks and weeks of teaching myself about [everything].”

“[T]he people who could write a better post are prevented from doing so, either by confidentiality or opportunity cost.”

On Lex Fridman and other competitors, Patel says “Sometimes it doesn’t feel like they’re trying. In other fields, if something is your full-time job, there’s an expectation for you to spend a lot of effort on it. The idea of popular podcasters just walking into a studio after just a single day of prep… It’s like this is your full-time job, man. Why don’t you spend a week or two instead?

“Most of the prep I do just doesn’t end up being useful because I’ll have read a random thing that never came up in the conversation. But some of the things I end up reading, even randomly on my own time, lead to interesting conversations.”