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prediction claim

The speaker thinks a return to exponential population growth could produce hyper-exponential growth in output.

Dwarkesh Patel · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025

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“out there doing stuff to execute those ideas and make valuable output and through most of this time population isn't exploding that has been driving growth for the last 50 years people have argued that growth has stagnated population and frontier countries is also stagnated i think we go back on the hyper exponential growth in population and output right sorry exponential growth in population that causes hyper exponential growth and output yeah”
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