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"The Best Essay" by Paul Graham (paulgraham.com)
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In which a man disappearing up his own asshole somehow fails to be interesting.

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[-] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago

It's fascinating to see how the narrative (at least in tech circles) has gone in the last 6 months or so: from "I typed a prompt and got a college-level essay" to "no way this [rich][powerful][respected] VC could write anything so incoherent, he must have used an LLM"

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

or alternately

This sounds like how I would write when I was on adderall. I mean, what the hell is this statement?

assholes like this are giving adderall a bad name

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago

Pretty sure if I asked ChatGPT about essay writing tips or what the best essay ever looked like, it would be more coherent than this rancid melange.

[-] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

No way PG has the attention span to write this much.

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