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The speaker believes people could achieve much greater cognitive development if they were not held back by learning material that is too easy or too hard.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“long term which i think is longer than i think maybe most people in the industry it's a losing game i i do think that people can go so far and that we barely scratch the surface of much person can can go and that's just because people are bouncing off of material that's too easy or too hard and they and and i i actually kind of feel that people will be able to go much further like anyone speaks five languages because why not because it's so trivial”Play from 2:09:53Report a misattribution
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