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The speaker describes bacteria and archaea as having undergone a two-billion-year period of extensive biochemical diversity without anything developing into animals.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“So yeah. Nikolai is very good about describing this like very apparent bottleneck in bacteria and archaea. For two billion years, nothing happened. Like extreme diversity of chemical,”
“of biochemistry, and yet nothing that grows to become animals.”
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