What Andrej Karpathy thinks about physics

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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1. 17 Oct 2025

   Our readingEarly schooling is not for accumulating knowledge but for booting up a brain, and physics does that better than any other subject.

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   Their wordsIt's about booting up a brain and I think physics uniquely boots up the brain the best.

   ↗Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”youtube.com 30th of 30 in this recording