Dwarkesh Patel interviews Gwern Branwen about anonymity, AI scaling, AGI timelines, and the path from Wikipedia editing to Gwern.net. The interview becomes an intellectual autobiography: scaling as the triumph of compute over elegance, writing as LLM-era self-preservation, and rabbit holes as method. It also covers hearing impairment, Borges, site design, funding, GLP drugs, psychedelics, and open questions.