A father asked Karpathy what to teach his 8-year-old before AGI. the answer erased 80% of the school curriculum.
math, physics, CS. everything else - tack it on later, if at all.
Most parents optimize their kid's schedule around grades and never notice they're funding the parts of the brain that stop mattering the day AGI ships.
grooves get harder to carve every year past 10.
the 8-year-old who learns physics processes reality differently at 30 than the one who didn't.
after AGI, information is a commodity. cognitive shape is not.
you're not choosing your kid's grades. you're choosing the brain they'll carry for the next 60 years.
16 minutes. free. changed what i'd tell any parent asking about school today.
watch it, then read below: