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The speaker says his physics training leads him to look for first- and second-order terms in the systems and things he observes.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“So I think because of that training,”
“I always try to find the first order terms or the second order terms of everything.”
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