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Paul Graham
@paulg

I was thinking about how I recognize AI writing, and one big tell is excessively colorful verbs. A handful of journalists might write that a proposal "drew" 100 votes, but any normal person will just say "got".

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Posted2:35 PM · Aug 19, 2026
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Weighted score
14/100
×1.3 liftvs raw baseline 11
Rank 46 of 1,284 · 30d
Contribution by typeIndex points · sum 14
  • Quotes
    4
  • Reposts
    6
  • Replies
    2
  • Likes
    2
Index points = action share × author influence, summed per type; bars scale to 100
Score over timeWeightedRaw baseline
0501000h6h12h18h24hHours after postIndex (0–100)
ContributorsRanked by points
Account
Influence
Action
Cluster
Followers
Points
  • Garry Tan avatar@garrytan
    76STRONG
    Reposted
    VCs
    547K
    +2
  • Ethan Mollick avatar@emollick
    71NOTABLE
    Quoted
    Media
    367K
    +2
  • Patrick McKenzie avatar@patio11
    70NOTABLE
    Replied
    Founders
    214K
    +1
  • + 2,120 others
    +9
Reached clustersShare of VIP impressions
  • Founders55%
  • VCs19%
  • Media13%
  • Hedge Funds6%
  • Other7%