A treatise on the topic written by o1-pro and prompted iteratively by Andrej, as an exploration of the LLM capabilities. First I prompted for a chapter outline, then for each chapter in turn, and finally for the summary chapter 10 by putting all previous chapters in the context window.
Also available as text on my blog:
https://karpathy.ai/blog/foundingfathers.html
More context on why this video exists:
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1868903650451767322
Chapters (bleh if anyone can help in comments would be helpful):
Chapter 1: The Constitutional Framework Under Modern Strain
Chapter 2: Liberty and Surveillance in the Digital Age
Chapter 3: Political Parties and the Founders’ Intentions
Chapter 4: Economic Power and Corporate Influence
Chapter 5: Equality and Civil Rights Beyond the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 6: Education, Citizenship, and Civic Virtue
Chapter 7: Religion, Secularism, and the Public Sphere
Chapter 8: Military, Foreign Policy, and America’s Global Role
Chapter 9: Technological Advancement and Democratic Discourse
Chapter 10: Renewing the American Experiment
AI credits:
- o1-pro for writing ($200/mo atm on ChatGPT), the most bleeding edge LLM from OpenAI as of Dec 2024.
- ElevenLabs for audio
- Ideogram for thumbnail
- VEED for video