Paul Graham: the scariest part is calling this a normal year
paulg · x · 2026-11-03
Replying to discussion of LLM weight-editing capabilities, Paul Graham says the most frightening part of the statement is describing all this as "a normal year" — implying AI progress has become so rapid it's treated as routine.
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