Paul Graham

Co-founder of Y Combinator

Co-founder of Y Combinator, long-time shaper of startup methodology.

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❝ Powerful AI is not AGI, but it can complete most PhD-level research tasks within five years. ❞

❝ Alignment research is not 'after AGI' — it is the process itself. ❞

❝ Anthropic does not race to AGI first; it races to safety curve first. ❞

❝ The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of them, but to let your mind generate them unconsciously. ❞

❝ Startups are very counterintuitive; you can't always trust your intuitions. ❞