Re:The Best Essay
by madelgi on Sunday March 10, 2024 @10:02PM
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this guy is so fucking full of himself it's painful...do people actually find this writing insightful?
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His early essays are life changing, in fact many of the early readers of HN, myself included, were drawn here by pgâs essays.
Last couple of ones - not so much.
Re:The Best Essay
by EFreethought on Sunday March 10, 2024 @11:08PM
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PG's essays really have two topics: the nominal topic, and that PG is really really smart.
Sometimes I get the same impressions about PG as I do about Derek Sivers' essays: sometimes they are insightful, and sometimes I think they were the inspirations for the /r/IAmVerySmart subreddit.
Re:The Best Essay
by maximinus_thrax on Sunday March 10, 2024 @10:09PM
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I wonder if this is some sort of 'The Emperor's New Clothes' situation or an elaborate piece of trolling. To me, this reads like a hallucinating LLM. Adding thanks to Sam Altman at the end sells it beautifully.
Something VC essays have in common with ChatGPT responses is that they make confident assertions in a million different subject areas without any citations at all. I was hopeful that the hyperlinks in this essay were citations to sources, but the ones that aren't links to footnotes with more opinions are links to other pages on the author's own blog.