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Karpathy says ordinary technological and economic progress is already recursively self-improving.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“And that even when people talk about recursive self-improvement and labs and stuff like that, I even don't, this business as usual,”
“of course, is going to recursively self-improve and it's been recursively self-improving.”1:25:07Report a misattribution
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