Paul Graham / @paulg · Scour

Hamming's talk is so important that I reproduced it on my site. It's one of the only things on my site written by someone else.

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Auction houses could fix this by giving you timegrapher numbers. But the only auction house that does this so far is a small Swiss one that specializes in watch...

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The best way to buy art is at auction, once you know what you're doing. But old watches you should buy from dealers. You can get enough information about painti...

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RT by @paulg: Truly an honor and blessing to host @demishassabis at YC today 🙏

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RT by @paulg: According to Reporters Without Borders, Israel accounted for almost half of the world's journalist deaths this year. It says Israel has now been ...

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You don't know how big a fish you are till you try a big pond.

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RT by @paulg: 🇫🇷 A French tax official was arrested for selling crypto investors' home addresses and financial records to criminal networks.

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RT by @paulg: BREAKING: A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts, per NYT.

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Is this a world record for signup friction? It's certainly the most I've ever encountered.

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I finally found the European auction house that defeated me. Before I can create an account I have to upload two forms of government id, an image of my credit c...

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The only catch is that you may have a slightly harder time fundraising for a non-AI idea. But only slightly harder. Investors care more about how formidable the...

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Plus there's a good chance your non-AI idea will end up being an AI idea after all, when you discover down the road that there's a way to grow its potential by ...

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The biggest opportunity for would-be startup founders is AI. But the most underpriced opportunity is probably non-AI ideas. So if you have a good non-AI idea, g...

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The reason of course is Blake's brilliant idea to fund the airliner by selling gas turbines to data centers. I can't think of another move that has turned the t...

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Boom always used to have hard time raising money. Investors are terrified of funding anything that's not like existing hot startups. And now, after 10 years of ...

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This is who's running the government.

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There's nothing like making things that will carry you through the sky at supersonic speeds.

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RT by @paulg: Spent an hour messing with ChatGpt & images, and I'm increasingly convinced we're over the horizon. Not where human artists are obsolete, I don't...

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RT by @paulg: Kind of remarkable that “because Israel asked us to” is the official explanation for the war.

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RT by @paulg: So hyped for @demishassabis visiting Y Combinator tomorrow! What a legend!

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