Andrej Karpathy

We do it accidentally and so on, but there's plenty of resources.

And so why would you destroy something that is so interesting and precious?

You might want to learn something from it, right?

I think it should be very interesting to scientists, other alien scientists, what happened here.

And what we're seeing today is a snapshot.

Basically, it's a result of a huge amount of computation.

over like billion years or something like that.

Or to understand life or what life looks like and what branches it can take.

I'm suspicious of this idea of a deliberate panspermia, as you described it, sort of.

I don't see a divine intervention in some way in the historical record right now.

I do feel like the story...

in these books, like Nick Lane's books and so on, sort of makes sense.

And it makes sense how life arose on Earth uniquely.

And yeah, I don't need to reach for more exotic explanations right now.

Maybe eventually they will.

Currently, NPCs are really dumb, but once they're running GPTs, maybe they will be like, hey, this is really suspicious.

What the hell?

It's pretty incredible that these self-replicating systems will basically arise from the dynamics, and then they perpetuate themselves and become more complex, and eventually become conscious and build a society.

And I kind of feel like, in some sense, it's kind of like a deterministic wave that kind of just happens on any sufficiently well-arranged system like Earth.

And so I kind of feel like there's a certain sense of inevitability in it.