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Paul Graham has said that one of the things he likes best about Sam Altman is that he figures out ways to "hack" things, and specified that he didn't mean programming, but rather systems, institutions, people, etc.

As for me, I'd prefer to see Paul Graham running Open AI.



That is called as social engineering. Is that a good thing, to be able to manipulate people like that?


Is that a good thing?


Paul Graham is British. That was actually an insult.


PG described it as a good thing -- apparently that is now a question ("what have you hacked?) that they ask people who want to join Y Combinator.


There’s a word for being adept at “hacking” people and institutions, and it’s called being manipulative. It’s a dark triad sociopathic trait.




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