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Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
The Andrej Karpathy episode.
During this interview, Andrej explains why reinforcement learning is terrible (but everything else is much worse), why AGI will just blend into the previous ~2.5 centuries of 2% GDP growth, why self driving took so long to crack, and what he sees as the future of education.
It was a pleasure chatting with him.
Watch on YouTube; read the transcript.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) – AGI is still a decade away
(00:29:45) – LLM cognitive deficits
(00:40:05) – RL is terrible
(00:49:38) – How do humans learn?
(01:06:25) – AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth
(01:17:36) – ASI
(01:32:50) – Evolution of intelligence & culture
(01:42:55) - Why self driving took so long
(01:56:20) - Future of education
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In this episode of The Level Up Podcast, Paul Alex breaks down how seemingly minor acts of self-sabotage can weaken your discipline and why keeping small commitments to yourself matters more than most entrepreneurs realize.
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The world loves the breakthrough moment. What it rarely shows you are the years of work that happened before anyone was paying attention.
In this episode of The Level Up Podcast, Paul Alex breaks down why entrepreneurs need to develop patience for the invisible years—the period when you are investing enormous amounts of time, energy, and capital without receiving immediate validation in return.
You’ll learn why unrealistic timelines cause talented founders to quit too early, how focusing on daily inputs can keep you moving when the scoreboard looks empty, and why years of consistent execution can eventually create results that appear sudden to everyone watching from the outside.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
• Why expecting immediate results can destroy long-term momentum
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The truth is simple: What looks like overnight success from the outside may have taken years to build.
Respect the timeline. Keep executing when nobody is watching. Give your work enough time to compound before you decide it is not working.
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