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The speaker argues that physics uniquely and best prepares the brain, making it especially valuable in early school education.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“I have a whole rant when I think how everyone should learn physics in early school education,”
“because I think early school education is not about accumulating knowledge or memory for tasks later in the industry. It's about booting up a brain.”
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