4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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Evolution cannot encode an animal’s algorithms directly into its weights, leaving many animals with largely pre-baked behavior.

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

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“So evolution can't bake your algorithms into your weights. A lot of a lot of animals are basically pre-baked.”
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