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Paul Graham clearly loves writing and spending many iterations on producing something perfect. That was also his approach with the Arc language. I may be proje
by bgwalter 1y ago
Paul Graham clearly loves writing and spending many iterations on producing something perfect. That was also his approach with the Arc language.
I may be projecting my own preferences here, but such a person is likely to have an ambivalent relationship with LLMs, which just output bland mediocrity or falsehoods.
In his previous essay, he warned that one should not create things that make the world worse. He softened it up by saying, without proof, that creating awesome things is probably fine (are LLMs awesome, I don't think so?).
Now he talks about good writing. I get the impression that he is one of the last remaining humanists in Silicon Valley, who at least has doubts about the direction we are going in and would be happy if YC startups created something else.