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Published · transcript-backedPaul Graham: evaluation
9 Aug 2023 Conversations with Tyler Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent
“All you need to do is have this hard core of crazy left-wing supporters who will absolutely support you, no matter what, and turn out to vote. Everybody else is like, “Oh, local election doesn’t matter.”
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- Paul Graham
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- evaluation
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- 9 Aug 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Isn’t it the voters you need to replace? Those people got elected, reelected. Well, the reason San Francisco fundamentally is so broken is that the supervisors have so much power, and supervisor elections, you can win by a couple hundred votes. All you need to do is have this hard core of crazy left-wing supporters who will absolutely support you, no matter what, and turn out to vote. Everybody else is like, “Oh, local election doesn’t matter. I’m not going to bother.” [laughs] It’s a uniquely weird situation that wasn’t really visible. It was always there, but it wasn’t visible until Ed Lee died. Now, we’ve reverted to what that situation produces, which is a disaster. Now, we’re in 2023. Say, two or three years from now, what do you think the regulation of AI will look like?…
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