Paul Graham
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.
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Founders' reputation for overconfidence is sample bias; most good startups actually underrate themselves.
Startup founders have a reputation for overconfidence, but this is just sample bias; the arrogant ones are also the loudest. Even now most good startups underrate themselves, so it really helps to encourage them.
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The best thing a 17-year-old could do today is learn to build LLMs from scratch and train the most powerful ones they can get hardware for.
Someone asked what I'd do if I were 17. I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch, and then train ones as powerful as I could with whatever hardware I could get access to.
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Blocking data center construction in America would not slow the rate of AI progress, only the rate of AI progress in America.
Preventing companies from building data centers in America wouldn't slow down the rate of progress in AI. It would merely slow down the rate of progress in AI in America.