In which a man disappearing up his own asshole somehow fails to be interesting.

  • @gerikson
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    69 months ago

    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)

    • @selfMA
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      109 months ago

      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.

      • @gerikson
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        129 months ago

        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”

        • David GerardMA
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          9 months ago

          or alternately

          This sounds like how I would write when I was on adderall. I mean, what the hell is this statement?

          assholes like this are giving adderall a bad name

        • @swlabr
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          69 months ago

          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.

        • @Evinceo
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          59 months ago

          No way PG has the attention span to write this much.