3 notes and quotes on Andrej Karpathy interview

Loose quotes and notes from a great interview with Andrej Karpathy¹. They’re not necessarily the most interesting bits of the conversation or the most insightful but I chose to write them down because they were unusual and a worldview that I wasn’t expecting.

These are part quotes, part notes (I’m mostly paraphrasing). For the actual wording check the original video.

Waymo has very few cars because they’re not economically viable. They’ve built something that lives in the future

Waymo is from the future living in the present on borrowed time. And borrowed time has a cost, which they think is worth it.

~1h49min

Bits are cheaper/easier than atoms.

~1h53min

Ancient Greece was a pocket environment with post-AGI dynamics.

~2h12min