Dwarkesh Patel x Ada Palmer: 'Machiavelli Is the Most Misunderstood Thinker'

Dwarkesh Patel (YouTube)·low signal

A humanities-leaning Dwarkesh episode with historian-novelist Ada Palmer on Machiavelli, progress, and how societies handle disruptive change. Off the direct AI-tooling beat, but from a top-signal source and relevant as a long-arc framing of the institutional upheaval the AI transition is driving.