Automatically disbelieving authorities isn't independent-mi… - Paul Graham

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Automatically disbelieving authorities isn't independent-mindedness. It's just conformism with the sign bit flipped.

Paul Graham

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Paul Graham (born 1964) is an English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News.

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