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The speaker states that animal heat dissipation scales with surface area (the square), whereas heat generation scales with volume (the cube).
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“You can talk about the heat dissipation of that because your heat dissipation grows as the surface area, which is growing a square,”
“but your heat creation or generation is growing as a cube.”Play from 2:16:31Report a misattribution
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