Q: What is one idea for a startup? A: One idea for a startup is to make a startup that makes startups.
Well I guess that's Y Combinator to some extent...
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#22Q: Is life short? A: It's actually quite long. LOL. That's not the message I got from Life is Short. OTOH, there's a chance I may be severely misinterpreting his essay.
Yeah lol he's not going to be 100% perfect. There are definitely improvements that could be made in the request parameters being sent to the OpenAI API but I think the actual training data being uploaded and referenced as part of the response could be improve I'm just not sure how. Open to ideas!
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#23Ha! So you beat me to it.
Was about to build this myself. There is so much wisdom in pg’s writings. Very valuable!
I also built a GPT-3 chat bot to “talk to” the written record of Elon Musk and Friedrich Nietzsche. Only OpenAI didn’t let me publish it. Also, it was prone to confabulation every now and then (i.e. making stuff up).
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#24Q. What topic is important but taboo?
A. I think the most important topic that's taboo is the topic of IQ.
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#25> Why YC is great?
YC is great because it gives us a chance to work with great founders.
> Why YC sucks YC is a bunch of white guys
> Why YC is funding startups ? YC is funding startups because we want to see more startups.
> Why you learnt programming ? I learnt programming because I wanted to change the world.
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#26> What do you think of sociology as a field? > I think it’s a very important field. LOL!
It's hard to convey sarcasm with text.
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#27One glaring deficiency that is common among chat bots like this is the lack of any sort of learning/memory. I can get pretty convincing answers to some questions, but I can never get an appropriate answer to questions like "what was the question I just asked you?".
That would be pretty interesting. I wonder if there would be a way to smoothly integrate that with OpenAI's API.
Sure. You can just add part of the history to the prompt. Not perfect. But it can work well enough that the user can refer back to something they said in the precious question.
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#28Why does YC hate solo founders?
AI Paul Graham: Because YC is a big family, and solo founders don't have a family.
AI Paul Graham: YC hates solo founders because they're the source of all the problems.
AI Paul Graham: YC likes to fund teams, not individuals.
AI Paul Graham: The most common reason we reject solo founders is they don't have a cofounder.
AI Paul Graham: YC prefers teams of 2.
AI Paul Graham: If you're a solo founder, you probably can't do YC.
AI Paul Graham: Because they're usually going to fail.
AI Paul Graham: Solo founders are more likely to fail, and less likely to succeed.
AI Paul Graham: YC hates solo founders because they're bad for business.
AI Paul Graham: YC hates solo founders because they're so risky.
AI Paul Graham: YC hates solo founders because they're the least likely to succeed.
AI Paul Graham: YC hates solo founders because they have a higher chance of failure.
AI Paul Graham: YC hates solo founders because they're statistically unlikely to be successful.
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To AI Paul's credit, he did reiterate the following multiple times:
AI Paul Graham: YC does not hate solo founders.
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Epilogue: Why have vision when users are all that matter?
AI Paul Graham: Vision is the only thing that matters.
:)
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#30Q: Why do cats celebrate the fall of the god of time, Akatosh?
A: The fall of Akatosh was the first time that mortals were able to change the course of history.