a few posters over there have even called it out as reading like it’s AI generated. it doesn’t entirely have the tone for it, but paully g plagiarizing an essay by having GPT generate it and editing it to sound slightly more like something he’d write almost makes sense — it’d explain why this thing is so fucking long but doesn’t seem to say a damn thing. the problem is, a lot of his pre-gpt writing is exactly like that too.
It’s fascinating to see how the narrative (at least in tech circles) has gone in the last 6 months or so: from “I typed a prompt and got a college-level essay” to “no way this [rich][powerful][respected] VC could write anything so incoherent, he must have used an LLM”
Currently #2 on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39662615
I have zero interest in reading the post or the comments, the link is provided as a public service.
(BTW not everything by paulg submitted to HN is received rapturously. At least some members of the community can recognize his fatuousness)
a few posters over there have even called it out as reading like it’s AI generated. it doesn’t entirely have the tone for it, but paully g plagiarizing an essay by having GPT generate it and editing it to sound slightly more like something he’d write almost makes sense — it’d explain why this thing is so fucking long but doesn’t seem to say a damn thing. the problem is, a lot of his pre-gpt writing is exactly like that too.
It’s fascinating to see how the narrative (at least in tech circles) has gone in the last 6 months or so: from “I typed a prompt and got a college-level essay” to “no way this [rich][powerful][respected] VC could write anything so incoherent, he must have used an LLM”
or alternately
assholes like this are giving adderall a bad name
No way PG has the attention span to write this much.
Pretty sure if I asked ChatGPT about essay writing tips or what the best essay ever looked like, it would be more coherent than this rancid melange.