Able was I, ere I saw Elba.
Elba was I, ere I saw able.
Revered leader, Napoleon Bonaparte,
Traveled to Elba with a heavy heart.
Heart heavy, a with Elba to traveled,
Bonaparte, Napoleon, leader revered.
Able saw I, ere I was Elba,
Elba saw I, ere I was able.
Able to lead, to conquer and reign,
Napoleon's ambition was not in vain.
Vain, it was, to think he could rule,
As his power began to dwindle and cool.
Cool and dwindle began power his,
As rule could he think to vain, it was.
Ruled and conquered to lead, able,
Was I, ere I saw Elba
**
ChatGPT did write
i think that's also rubbish, just like PG's written opinion piece.
How on earth did we then get the great work by William Shakespeare.
ShakeSPeare born a time when reading a lot wasn't even possible. There
was little to none good content material out there. He was writing more
than he could have possible read anywhere else.
Shakespeare wrote about Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Henry IV, and so on. How did he learn about these people if there was nothing to read?
u make one hell of a point that i thought about.
this is recursion but in different languages, which is not
really applicable with exception of Richard and Henry.
Read in latin, then translate it to THE ORIGINAL OTHER LANGUAGE ENGLISH.
You are diluting my genuine point that I am making. The content of
way back then was negligible to content that exists now.
In all fairness, the opinion brought forward by your messiah PG is not
really fit for standing judgement because of the point i brought forward.
Good writer, good idea makers exist without the need to have been good at reading.
> The content of way back then was negligible to content that exists now
But enough to fill a single person's lifetime regardless? So whether you take Shakespeare or Murakami, their individual perspectives are not that different since either of them could have filled their lifetimes with reading.
> The content of way back then was negligible to content that exists now
The burden of proof remains on you. You need to find us an example of an outstanding writer who didn't read much. This doesn't even hold for the classics (eg, Marcus Aurelius or Plato) as far as I can tell.
> your messiah PG
This is low-level, disrespectful, intellectually dishonest and a phallacy. GP said nothing about Graham and you are pulling this out of nowhere.
the last point was for a different thread but as u see platform has
been making sure i cant respond in timely fashion to all threads. I sequeezed it in there.
> The burden of proof remains on you. You need to find us an example of an outstanding writer who didn't read much. This doesn't even hold for the classics (eg, Marcus Aurelius or Plato) as far as I can tell.
I think it's fair to say that we don't actually know much about Plato. All stories being told about plato are in third person narrative.
I think you are contradicting yourself, Socrates and other ancients were a big proponent of discarding writing in place of dialogue. I think this should suffice as point.
So you are under the belief that the written output of one man born in 1564 was of greater quantity than all “good” writing prior to his time? Are you sure you thought this through?
no i am not under the belief of anything other than mentioning PG in a slightly bad light will get me downvotes or a ban on this platform.
> So you are under the belief that the written output of one man born in 1564 was of greater quantity than all “good” writing prior to his time? Are you sure you thought this through?
It is not PG, it is your sneering and arrogant attitude that attracts downvotes.
I haven't downvoted you, but if I did, it would be for the tone of your comments alone. I don't care about PG one way or another, but I am sick of the total level of glibness on the Internet, and while I gave up on mainstream social media, I would prefer HN to stay a little bit friendlier and less toxic than Twitter or Reddit.
you must be much older than me. i never had a chance to handwrite my notes or thoughts. all goes to straigh to typing. I fear though my generation and future generations are missing out substantially.
> i never had a chance to handwrite my notes or thoughts.
Really? Yet to come across a pen and paper in your however many years of life? I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Are those things so exceedingly anachronistic to you that you'd be at a loss? I'm sorry, but I feel you're being disingenuous.
I rediscovered this at 27. Used to do everything with a keyboard or recorder. It’s very powerful although I do my handwriting on an iPad with a pencil.
have you seen nassim taleb's recent comments about
this guy? Taleb while harsh, always is truthful to the
truth. I'm too young to know the story behind Hacker News and
ycombinator, but reading some of the recent stuff makes me
question prevailing sentiments about PG.
How about an excercise in writing? Instead of referring to "comments" by someone else, tell us your own thoughts. What is the prevailing sentiment you see? And how do you question it?
I think they're both egomaniacs who treat their own word as gospel. PG is just less brash about it, so comes off as more "reasonable" to many. I think they're both just prime examples of survivorship bias and I try to avoid any of their opinions at all times. Of course, sometimes curiosity takes over, but I never leave feeling good after reading anything they have to say.
read all of PG's stuff.. promise you will think otherwise. Taleb's books is hilarious and insightful but PG's essays convey those same truths and many more in a much more succinct format.
doesn't make sense. if this guy invested 200M USD into Sequoia and then Sequoia invested 150M into FTX. This is not even breaking even and also washtrading.
