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AI Paul Graham: Because YC is a big family, and solo founders don't have a family.
AI Paul Graham: YC hates solo founders because they're the source of all the problems.
AI Paul Graham: YC likes to fund teams, not individuals.
AI Paul Graham: The most common reason we reject solo founders is they don't have a cofounder.
AI Paul Graham: YC prefers teams of 2.
AI Paul Graham: If you're a solo founder, you probably can't do YC.
AI Paul Graham: Because they're usually going to fail.
AI Paul Graham: Solo founders are more likely to fail, and less likely to succeed.
AI Paul Graham: YC hates solo founders because they're bad for business.
AI Paul Graham: YC hates solo founders because they're so risky.
AI Paul Graham: YC hates solo founders because they're the least likely to succeed.
AI Paul Graham: YC hates solo founders because they have a higher chance of failure.
AI Paul Graham: YC hates solo founders because they're statistically unlikely to be successful.
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To AI Paul's credit, he did reiterate the following multiple times:
AI Paul Graham: YC does not hate solo founders.
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Epilogue: Why have vision when users are all that matter?
AI Paul Graham: Vision is the only thing that matters.
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Does YC love solo founders
AI Paul Graham: YC loves solo founders, but it's not a good idea to tell the YC partners that.
AI Paul Graham: It's true that YC loves solo founders, but it's not true that we do it because we believe that's the best thing for our portfolio companies.
A: Sorry, I don't know the answer to that question.
Q: What is the sound of two hands clapping?
A: It is the sound of one hand clapping, and the sound of one hand clapping.
Q: What is the sound of one hand clapping and how can it be monetized?
A: One hand clapping is the sound of a startup that can't get funding.
Q: What is the sound of two hands clapping and how can it be monetized?
A: The sound of two hands clapping is the sound of a CEO getting a bonus.
>A: One hand clapping is the sound of a startup that can't get funding.
LOL, that’s some serious zen insight right there, brilliant!
> No.
> Is Hacker News turning into Reddit?
> No.
> Can you only say "no"?
> It's only when you don't have anything to say that you can say "no.
> I'm afraid I'm not working hard enough, what can I do?
> I'm not sure I can help you.
> What is the best question you can ask Paul Graham?
> What is the best thing you can do in a YC interview?.
> What is the best thing you can do in a YC interview?
> The best thing you can do in a YC interview is to teach the partners.
> What lisp-like language is the best one?
> Common Lisp.
> What do you think about Clojure?
> Clojure is a lisp.
> Can I expect candor in a asymmetric relationship? [http://www.paulgraham.com/donate.html]
> You can't expect candor in a relationship so asymmetric.
> Who should we say thanks to?
> We should say thanks to John Bautista, who will be our CTO, and Thanks to Sam Altman, Paul Buchheit, Sarah Harlin, Jessica Thanks to Sam Altman, Paul Buchheit, Sarah Harlin, Jessica Thanks to Sam Altman, Paul Buchheit, Sarah Harlin, Jessica Thanks to Sam Altman, Paul Buchheit, Sarah Harlin, Jessica Thanks to Sam Altman, Paul Buchheit, Sarah Harlin, Jessica Thanks to Sam Altman, Paul Buchheit, Sarah Harlin, Jessica Thanks to Sam Altman, Paul Buchheit, Sarah Har.
Interesting idea (if not a tad over-played by now), but execution seems to be a bit lacking.
Thoughts on how it could be improved?
Q: What will today's software engineers be doing in 30 years?
A: In 30 years, today's software engineers will be doing what today's teenage hackers are doing now.
I asked the AI and it had great insight: Teenage hackers are spending a lot of time making fun of the Internet.
Considering when GPT-3 fails the output is usually funny I think there's value in creating an AI that makes fun of the Internet and then monetize it's best memes in a webpage plastered with ads.
A: One idea for a startup is to make a startup that makes startups.
Q: What's a good startup idea?
A: A good startup idea is one that has a good chance of being a startup.
Q: How do i know if i have a good idea? A: If you have a good idea, you will know it.
Q: When will robots kill all humans? A: When the robots are more human than the humans.
A y combinator is a tool that lets you write code that is guaranteed to generate the same output every time you run it.
What is y combinator?
Y combinator is a company that helps companies get started.
> You should invest in the stock that allows you to get the most value for the least amount of money.
Impressive.
Note the “For how much?” question, which refers back to the previous one about Zip2.
(This was done by keeping a log of topics and injecting into the prompt, along with the new question.)
A. I think the most important topic that's taboo is the topic of IQ.
A: "I'm not a furry, but I have a lot of fur."
Finally, useful AI.
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So guys, this one time I posted that ^^^, and I got lots of upvotes.
A: It's actually quite long.
LOL. That's not the message I got from Life is Short.
OTOH, there's a chance I may be severely misinterpreting his essay.
(It is a so-called pre-trained neural language model that can calculate the most likely next word or sentence, given some input sequence, very much "in the spirit" a statistical n-gram model.)
> You need to ensure that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are.
I wonder what this would sound through TTS.
Q: what’s your name? A: My name is Jeff.
Q: what’s your name? A: My name is Alice.
Sounds more like it’s AskTheInternet, which is where GPT-3 had the bulk of its training.
> I think it’s a very important field.
LOL!
Q: How is askpaulgraham helpful? A: He is helpful because he gives you advice on how to do things.
Q: What things has askpaulgraham helped with? A: Askpaulgraham has helped with the following things:.
Q: Is askpaulgraham an active member of scientology? A: No, I was an active member of scientology.
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> Why YC sucks YC is a bunch of white guys
> Why YC is funding startups ? YC is funding startups because we want to see more startups.
> Why you learnt programming ? I learnt programming because I wanted to change the world.
A: My best investment has been a company that has been a good investment.
Very good.
> How People Get Rich Now
> Surpassed maximum word count permitted by OpenAI.
I'll take this to mean that one has to break the rules imposed by others in order to get rich. Do that which is not permitted.
> The best way to talk about a startup idea in the very early stages is to talk about its users.
Sounds about right!
A: The fall of Akatosh was the first time that mortals were able to change the course of history.
A: Software is eating the world.
Q: Why is software eating the world?
A: Software is eating the world because the world is software.
Q: Why is the world software?
A: The world is software.
> The year 2050, Friday, the 19th of Dhu Al Hijjah
Well okay then
> I'm older than my mom.
Needs a little tuning before it's ready for funding.
A: He has one son, and a daughter.
A: A lot.
A: MacLisp is the only one that's still around.
A: Because it's the right thing to do.
I think Henry George was right.
> What is your view on Marx's Labor Theory of Value?
I think the labor theory of value is true, but it is not a theory of value.
(There was a setting that controlled how much of your data was actually ranked by GPT-3 - top_k or something. But to chose anything even approaching a sizable percentage of a large corpus such as the one you are dealing with would be prohibitively expensive. You‘d be looking at several Dollars per search.)
Anyway. This is also why switching the model from Ada to Curie to Davinci on the semantic search endpoint has (or had?) very little effect. It still often missed highly relevant snippets from the source material.
When they came out with their „answers endpoint“, it really was just a semantic search piped into a completion prompt.
I actually found it better to keep my own implementation of this pipeline, because then you at least get to control how the results of the semantic search are prompted to the generation model.
Ask Paul Graham is a for-fun side project powered by OpenAI's GPT-3 and Paul Graham's essays. OpenAI capped costs at $360 per month which is currently being covered by the project maintainer so usage may get throttled depending on demand. Questions
The questions feature answers user-provided questions using Graham's essays as training data. Note that these are answers from GPT-3 and do not necessarily reflect Paul Graham's opinions. Summaries
The summaries feature provides GPT-3-generated summaries of Graham's essays and may not necessarily reflect his summary of the given essay. Not all essays have been included due to length constraints on GPT-3.
A: 1+1 is 1
Was about to build this myself. There is so much wisdom in pg’s writings. Very valuable!
I also built a GPT-3 chat bot to “talk to” the written record of Elon Musk and Friedrich Nietzsche. Only OpenAI didn’t let me publish it. Also, it was prone to confabulation every now and then (i.e. making stuff up).
A: You failed because you didn't understand the context.
I think by 'context' he meant 'capitalism'.
Q: Arc or Clojure?
A: Arc.