I know I really shouldn't be picking on the mentally ill, but the thought processes of extreme narcissists are honestly more alien to me than those of schizophrenics, who at least react in an understandable way to being told by God that what we call "reality" is actually an illusion.

Whereas the guy we're discussing seems to actually think that Paul Graham, billionaire, wakes up every morning thinking "how, today, can I enable the vicious internet slander campaign against Zed Shaw? (I am so intimidated by his genius)."

  What would happen if I decided to pay you back for HN Paul?
  What would happen if I started honestly reviewing your startups’ products?
  If I just picked the worst ones, and then started tearing them in half?
  What would happen if I went on every HN hiring post and started
  posting dirt about the various shit HR practices your companies have?
  What if I took all this writing and got my friends
  you’ve fucked over to help me broadcast it?
  What if I started posting this writing as replies to many of your comments?
  What if I started offering to advise new coders, the millions I teach a year
  (yes, millions Paul) to avoid all of your company’s startups?
  What would happen if I just started putting anti-YC ads on my properties?
  What if I started telling everyone how you take
  7% and don’t give startups any real guidance?
  What would happen if I started talking about the crazy bullshit I know
  has happened at YC startups I’ve worked for and others have told me about?

Er… nothing?