Andrej Karpathy

"Read a very long time ago, remember really enjoying select parts having to do with a highly mysterious superintelligence. Note to re-read." - Andrej Karpathy

"One of my top favorite alien portrayals, strikes a good balance between plausible, interesting and entertaining. A thoroughly enjoyable read." - Andrej Karpathy

"Castaway but on Mars. Excellent story. Cool science. Highly entertaining. Total page turner. Loved it (and the movie, rare!) a lot, lower only because it is so popular." - Andrej Karpathy

"Incredible first chapters and macro world building. Love the concept of psychohistory and story arch." - Andrej Karpathy

"Carl Sagan's Contact but for adults." - Andrej Karpathy

"Highly inventive alien contact. Very enjoyable." - Andrej Karpathy

"Really fun mystery alien contact page turner. I refuse to acknowledge the sequels." - Andrej Karpathy

"Several fantastic diamonds of novel ideas sprinkled about, but mixed in with a large mass of goo, soulless characters, narrative/logical inconsistencies..." - Andrej Karpathy

"Highly inventive and fascinating alien contact. A little too long." - Andrej Karpathy

"A most interesting alien contact. Inventive, cool." - Andrej Karpathy

"A twisted, raw, curious portrayal of a future with an AGI gone... mixed." - Andrej Karpathy

"A bio-heavy hard sci-fi from 1969, centered on alien microbiology instead of space." - Andrej Karpathy

"VR Metaverse. Super nerdy. Down with corpo. Highly enjoyable. Total page turner." - Andrej Karpathy

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Andrej Karpathy rated this book 4 out of 5 on Goodreads."

"Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a wonderful and exhaustingly detailed case study of the development of a transformative technology - the atomic bomb." - Andrej Karpathy

"Of ~200 books I've read, the few that stayed with me over time and I find myself often thinking back to or referring to, in ~random order:" - Andrej Karpathy

"Of ~200 books I've read, the few that stayed with me over time..." - Andrej Karpathy

"Of ~200 books I've read, the few that stayed with me over time..." - Andrej Karpathy

"Of ~200 books I've read, the few that stayed with me over time..." - Andrej Karpathy

"Of ~200 books I've read, the few that stayed with me over time..." - Andrej Karpathy

"Of ~200 books I've read, the few that stayed with me over time..." - Andrej Karpathy

"Of ~200 books I've read, the few that stayed with me over time..." - Andrej Karpathy

"Just a totally crushing masterpiece on intelligence." - Andrej Karpathy

"A story of an AI take over. Highly inventive, but also a bit inconsistent and tedious at times." - Andrej Karpathy

"Easily one of my favorite books ever" - Andrej Karpathy

"I love this book so much. I really want to give it 6/5." - Andrej Karpathy

"Required reading. My top 3 favorites are Understand, Story of Your Life, and Division by Zero." - Andrej Karpathy

"Highly enjoyable world-building set in a Neuralink future." - Andrej Karpathy

"Simulation. Artificial Life. Aliens. Highly inventive, enjoyable." - Andrej Karpathy