Would Gwern point to his idea and try to take credit for the startup success or would he stick to SV mantra that ideas are cheap and low value?
I've never asked a cent, because ideas are cheap, and timing/implementation everything: https://www.gwern.net/Timing
FWIW, I have lots of ideas on my Trello, it's not hard to come up ideas that have potential in my eyes, but the problem is to have energy or motivation to test-drive them and see if they could be sculpted into fruitful applications, not to mention profitability and marketing which I know nothing about.
Exactly, I feel Gwern is sidestepping this problem and could leverage the social hatred around the future founder of multibillion dollar company to claim that they are a fraud and he's the one who came up with the idea.
kinda like the Winklevi with Zuck, but in the era of blogging, social media and metaverse