[int3rnaut]

I want to prelude my question with my own personal belief: I think Paul Graham and company are not only ethical, but good human beings.

Is there ever a risk of unintentionally assigning one of the ideas of a lesser group to one of these "All-star" groups without an idea? Like in a brain-storming session, who gets the embers going? I know there's a statement about this on the application (if you're worried about copying not to apply) but it would be interesting to know.

[pg]

We're very careful about that. We'd never do it intentionally. There's some possibility we'd do it unintentionally, but I don't think we have so far.