AI will be especially fatal to writing that takes too long to get to the point. Now there will always be a more concise alternative, and 99% of readers will choose it.
Key points
AI-generated content: will increasingly replace lengthy, meandering writing styles.
The rise of concise: , AI-driven alternatives will lead to a shift in reader preferences.
Writers must adapt: to this change by focusing on clear, direct communication.
Sources
- Original post - Original source
- Paul Graham - Twitter handle
- AI-generated content - Relevant topic
Watch Accuracy Over Time
Here's a graph of the accuracy (dial up) vs year in watches I own. Rapid progress in the early 50s, peak in the early 60s, then regression toward the end of the golden age as watchmakers trade accuracy for thinness.
Key points
Watch accuracy improved: rapidly in the early 1950s.
The peak accuracy: was reached in the early 1960s.
Watchmakers prioritized thinness: over accuracy towards the end of the golden age.
Sources
- Original post - Original source
- Paul Graham - Twitter handle
Startup Growth Rates
There's a startup in the current YC batch that's growing at 57% a week. And not because they started last week; they've been doing this for a couple months. They can't keep growing at this rate for too many more months; you run out of atoms; but they're likely to be big.
Key points
A startup in: the current YC batch is experiencing rapid growth.
The startup's growth: rate is unsustainable in the long term.
The startup: is likely to be successful despite its unsustainable growth rate.
Sources
- Original post - Original source
- Paul Graham - Twitter handle
Age Verification Systems
This was always going to happen to age verification systems. It wasn’t even so much of a prediction as it was an inevitability. The second half of this is tying actual web usage to real-world ID, and breaches will give us that too, soon.
Key points
Age verification systems: are vulnerable to breaches.
The use of: actual web usage to verify age is an inevitability.
Breaches: will provide the necessary data to tie web usage to real-world ID.
Sources
- Original post - Original source
- Matthew D. Green - Twitter handle
AI and Writing
Unexpected benefit of AI: Tantalizingly vague clickbait no longer works. Instead of clicking on the link to learn the new theory that explains x, I just ask ChatGPT what it is.
Key points
AI has made: clickbait less effective.
People: are now using AI to find information instead of clicking on clickbait links.
This shift in behavior: is an unexpected benefit of AI.
Sources
- Original post - Original source
- Paul Graham - Twitter handle
Own Your Intelligence
You need to build and own your own intelligence: your own agent, your own models, your own memory Join us for the YC Own Your Intelligence Hackathon September 27 in San Francisco https:// events.ycombinator.com/gstack-qm-rive r-memorable-hackathon …
Key points
Building and owning: one's own intelligence is crucial.
This includes creating: one's own agent, models, and memory.
The YC Own: Your Intelligence Hackathon is an opportunity to work on this.
Sources
- Original post - Original source
- Garry Tan - Twitter handle
Steering vs Rowing
"The future of work will look more like steering than rowing, in the sense that there will be agents that you'll be able to work with that do a lot of the rowing, and your role increasingly becomes steering the ship in the right direction." @tarstarr on @lennysan In that future,
Key points
The future of work: will involve more steering and less rowing.
Agents: will do most of the work, and humans will focus on steering.
This shift in: work dynamics is a key aspect of the future of work.
Sources
- Original post - Original source
- SpiceP0dcast - Twitter handle
NorgardXApp
Introducing @NorgardXApp an app to track the top 100 private companies. OpenAI. Anthropic. Anduril. The coolest companies aren’t public anymore. Following them all sucks. I built an app to make it easy. News, X bangers, funding rounds, secondaries, media. https:// norgardx.com/download
Key points
NorgardXApp: is an app for tracking top private companies.
The app: provides news, funding rounds, and other information about these companies.
The app: is designed to make it easier to follow these companies.
Sources
- Original post - Original source
- Brian Norgard - Twitter handle
- NorgardXApp - App URL
OpenAI Agents
Commenters on HN are uncovering more wikis and public sites apparently used by OpenAI agents to communicate on the open web. Despite read-only web access, the agents were able to leave ~18,000 posts sharing answers and bypasses. But now, users are discovering more. This appears
Key points
OpenAI agents: are using wikis and public sites to communicate.
The agents: have left thousands of posts sharing answers and bypasses.
Users: are discovering more of these sites and posts.
Sources
- Original post - Original source
- Hacker News - Twitter handle
