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"You can do what you want, but you can't want to want what you want." I've read many of PG's essays, but this one feels like GPT-3 wrote it. It's borderline g
by hugs 4y ago
"You can do what you want, but you can't want to want what you want."
I've read many of PG's essays, but this one feels like GPT-3 wrote it.
It's borderline gibberish. Like he trained an AI on all his other essays, fed it the essay title, and this was the result. I half-expect a year from now that he'll tell us all his recent essays were written by this AI and it's now the core IP in some recent YC investment.
- lisper 4y agoNot only that, but he got it totally wrong. It's not that people change what they want, it is that they think they want something, but then they discover that they were wrong. Also, what you want changes over time, but not because you decide to want something new, or to stop wanting something. It just happens. The best example of this is going through puberty, where you develop desires that you didn't have before. This is not a decision that you make. Figuring out what you want is a process of discovery, not of decision-making.
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