Andrej Karpathy

And then you start with abiogenesis and everything.

So it's all a pretty remarkable story.

I'm not sure that...

I can pick a single unique piece of it that I find most interesting.

I guess for me, as an artificial intelligence researcher, it's probably the last piece.

We have lots of animals that are not building technological society, but we do.

And it seems to have happened very quickly.

It seems to have happened very recently.

something very interesting happened there that I don't fully understand.

I almost understand everything else, I think intuitively, but I don't understand exactly that part and how quick it was.

Yeah, I'm hesitant to say that it is rare, by the way, but it definitely seems like

It's kind of like a punctuated equilibrium where you have lots of exploration and then you have certain leaps, sparse leaps in between.

So, of course, like origin of life would be one, you know, DNA, sex, eukaryotic life, the endosymbiosis event where the archaeon ate little bacteria, you know, just the whole thing.

And then, of course, emergence of consciousness and so on.

So it seems like definitely there are sparse events where a massive amount of progress was made.

But yeah, it's kind of hard to pick one.

Yeah.

I've been preoccupied with this question quite a bit recently, basically the Fermi paradox and just thinking through.

And the reason, actually, that I am very interested in the origin of life is fundamentally trying to understand how common it is that there are technological societies out there in space.

And the more I study it, the more I think that...