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Andrej Karpathy believes explaining ideas to other people helps a person learn them more deeply.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“out of doing something and you're learning on demand the other thing that i've found is extremely helpful is um maybe this is an aspect where education is a bit more selfless because uh explaining things to people is a beautiful way to learn something more deeply”2:24:04Report a misattribution
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