Paul Graham (@paulg)

It's possible for ideas to cross the border illegally? ...

As a startup investor I should be excited by the prospect of tariffs enabling a new batch of American companies. But I'm not. The really big successes, like Microsoft and Google, grow out of the founders' own interests, not the prospect of a (probably temporary) price advantage....

This actually gives me some hope that Trump will reconsider his tariff plans. Low oil prices hurt Russia, and he never seems to do anything contrary to Russia's interests. ...

Happiness = the number of digits of wealth. ...

If you didn't speak out against *both* woke censorship and Trump's attempts to suppress criticism of Israel at universities, you're not a genuine free speech advocate. You're just a partisan hack who pretends to care about free speech when it suits you....

@levie Do you think you will say later that the main importance of what you did at Box up till now was the position it got you into when AI arrived? Or is that putting it too strongly?...

@NoahCarl90 I worry Elon has no idea how much he has damaged his personal brand in the UK. He thinks he's just tweeting away, and meanwhile ordinary British people now think of him like some sinister rich bad guy in a Batman movie....

Rahul Ligma and Daniel Johnson are very upset. ...

What happened in America? ...