Paul Graham
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.
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1 Oct 2024
Within a couple of decades there will not be many people who can write, because AI has removed the pressure to learn.I'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in a couple decades there won't be many people who can write.
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1 Oct 2024
Because writing is thinking, a world divided into writers and non-writers becomes a world divided into thinkers and non-thinkers.So a world divided into writes and write-nots is more dangerous than it sounds. It will be a world of thinks and think-nots.
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1 Oct 2024
Intelligence is becoming a choice rather than a byproduct of daily work: there will still be smart people, but only those who choose to be.There will still be smart people, but only those who choose to be.
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1 Oct 2023
Returns for performance are superlinear rather than proportional across most domains that matter.One of the most important things I didn't understand about the world when I was a child is the degree to which the returns for performance are superlinear.