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Parrot.vc is a bot trained on tens of thousands of VC tweets that uses predictive text to generate amazing, new startup advice. Share your favorites! Gavin Belson - hit me up, this is the perfect acquisition for Hooli. PS - you can follow Parrot.vc on Twitter as well ( https://twitter.com/parrot_vc )

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Okay, I've spent a little more time on this than I probably should have, but I think I realized something. The reason this works is mostly due to the VCs being generic in general. I've been reading the tweets they're based on and they're equally nonsense as the bot tweet. But bashing multiple tweets together, still produces something that's... coherent? I mean, yea, they're coherent. But it works because it lacks det…

Agreed. Most VCs are just that, useless sacks of breathing meat. For that reason, I've avoided them. Even during parties, I (unfairly) dismiss someone the moment I find out they are a VC and just invested in ...(insert famous tech here)... Based on personal experience, VCs are statistically more likely having a conversation with you thinking they are better than you the whole time (and therefore knows better). Not al…

> thinking they are better than you the whole time

Do people really think like that? This sounds like possibly a personal insecurity. I don’t know too many grown adults who think things like “I am better than you”. Better at what? making money? Smarter? Getting dates?

I don’t know... maybe I’m just too optimistic but all of the VCs I’ve met have been super nice.

Re: Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC

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Parrot.vc is a bot trained on tens of thousands of VC tweets that uses predictive text to generate amazing, new startup advice. Share your favorites! Gavin Belson - hit me up, this is the perfect acquisition for Hooli. PS - you can follow Parrot.vc on Twitter as well ( https://twitter.com/parrot_vc )

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"In other news, water is wet"

"This has been known for 10 years, this is not a new discovery"

"Title is clickbait, can someone please update it?"

Re: Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC

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Okay, I've spent a little more time on this than I probably should have, but I think I realized something. The reason this works is mostly due to the VCs being generic in general. I've been reading the tweets they're based on and they're equally nonsense as the bot tweet. But bashing multiple tweets together, still produces something that's... coherent? I mean, yea, they're coherent. But it works because it lacks det…

Agreed. Most VCs are just that, useless sacks of breathing meat. For that reason, I've avoided them. Even during parties, I (unfairly) dismiss someone the moment I find out they are a VC and just invested in ...(insert famous tech here)... Based on personal experience, VCs are statistically more likely having a conversation with you thinking they are better than you the whole time (and therefore knows better). Not al…

Why can't I upvote this continuously? In spirit, I'd say 1000x my up-vote, even if it can't be done in practice.

Re: Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC

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"With a powerful narrative, you should be able to go from raw materials to a launch ready vehicle in 60 days." If this isn't the best sign of the times, idk what is. Edit: This one killed me "VC is hard. This is a great fucking deck..."

It’s not worth the money, but if you have a 79 year old parent on twitter, you can send me their handle as a guideline for him.

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So lots of people in this thread that realize vcs are supercilious talking heads. Why does Paul graham, the blogger who claimed Microsoft is dead and that lisp , which btw is untyped and slower than maybe even Go, is a competitive badvantage get admiration? Is it just by the wannabes?
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