有人把 Paul Graham 所有文章导入 GPT，捣鼓出一个产品可以基于这些文章回答问题，然后在这个产品里问「好想法可以从哪里来？」。

Paul Graham 看到了答案，表示「答案一般般」并表示这不会是他本人的回答。他还特地写了一小段话（小到大概只要两条推文这么多）：

获得新想法的方法是留意反常的事物：什么看起来奇怪、缺失或者有问题？你总是能在日常中发现反常（很多脱口秀都是基于这一点），但寻找它们的最佳地点是在知识的前沿。

知识总是分形生长。从远处看，它的边缘看起来很平滑，但当你学到足够多的知识靠近其中一个边缘时，你会发现它充满了空隙。这些空隙看起来很明显；人们还没有尝试 X 或对 Y 产生疑惑，这看起来令人难以置信。在最好的情况下，探索这些空隙会产生全新的分形萌芽。

The way to get new ideas is to notice anomalies: what seems strange, or missing, or broken? You can see anomalies in everyday life (much of standup comedy is based on this), but the best place to look for them is at the frontiers of knowledge.

Knowledge grows fractally. From a distance its edges look smooth, but when you learn enough to get close to one, you'll notice it's full of gaps. These gaps will seem obvious; it will seem inexplicable that no one has tried x or wondered about y. In the best case, exploring such gaps yields whole new fractal buds.