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With Karpathy tweeting talking about Agency > Intelligence, I wanted to share my two cents. Specifically, my thoughts on cultivating agency in children. I've always considered agency to be the most important trait to seek in the people around me, and the most vital quality to nurture in children, friends, and if you're lucky, your parents. Because the world truly shifts in your favour when you possess high agency. And for the first time since intelligence became a human's most prized asset, it's no longer the primary barrier to success - agency is. I find the idea of instilling agency in adults largely irrelevant because beyond a certain age, it is incredibly difficult to do. Agency hinges on a foundation that is the desire to pursue one's own goals and the capacity to achieve them on one's own terms. I would go as far as to say, that, having extremely high agency is like unlocking a deeper level of consciousness. Persuading an adult who has spent over 18 years following as they were t

With Karpathy tweeting talking about Agency > Intelligence, I wanted to share my two cents. Specifically, my thoughts on cultivating agency in children. I've always considered agency to be the most important trait to seek in the people around me, and the most vital quality to nurture in children, friends, and if you're lucky, your parents. Because the world truly shifts in your favour when you possess high agency. And for the first time since intelligence became a human's most prized asset, it's no longer the primary barrier to success - agency is. I find the idea of instilling agency in adult