Karpathy's Funnel: The Arithmetic Holds and the Denominator Is a Choice

Every write-up of Karpathy’s four tier funnel repeats his four counts and none of them re-divides them. Against the population that could plausibly use a model, the bottom tier is not 75 per cent of the world, it is 99 per cent of everyone still standing.

October 18, 2026 · 12 min · Hanh Pham