2) Respectfully, pg, why are you bothering with this, and more with all the other "how to hack YC", "why we got past YC", "why we failed YC" blog posts? I'm surprised you don't have a bot that first-posts the following comment to every such submission:
Heh... I'm sorry, but I can't help but be slightly amused by the idea of a "pgbot". So much so that I started on capturing some "pg'isms" in AIML a while back.
https://github.com/mindcrime/pgbot
I'd love to play with this more, but I have to much respect for pg to do it. Any more and I'm afraid it would go from "cute, maybe amusing diversion" to the realm of actually offensive.
What might be fun though, would be to compile some stock expressions, advice, quips, etc. from a whole range of well known personalities in the startup & tech world, and create a bot that combines them all. You could call it "startupbot" and stick it out there somewhere for people to interact with.