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The speaker argues that the Industrial Revolution was not caused by a single magical key invention; examining 1770 or 1870 would not reveal one such invention.
Dwarkesh Patel · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“think the crucial thing about the Industrial Revolution was that it was not magical,”
“if you just zoomed in what you would see in 1770 or 1870 is not that there like was some key invention but”Play from 1:30:24Report a misattribution
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