"I have nothing to do with startups but everything to do with my original statement." https://www.parrot.vc/-LumCfM7z4sQiNiXMJIU
Mmmm, a time where I can appreciate recursion
Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC
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#42Just to clarify, does VC stand for Venture Capitalist in this context?
Yep!
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#44It looks like it uses tweets that were a reply to another tweet. This makes some of them read weird since there is missing context. I wonder what it would look like if it only used tweets that were original.
Hmmm I hadn't thought of that. That's a great point.
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#45Okay, 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 detail.
There's almost no detail or focus on a concrete idea in any of these VC tweets. Everything is so damn vague and abstract in the original tweets, they can apply to anything or anyone. Thus, chopping and mixing them is meaningless, because they are void of meaning to begin with... Sort of the same way horoscopes work. They're pretty broad and the reader fills in the gaps and details. VCs talk like old gypsy fortune tellers... they're vague, tell you roughly what you'd like to hear and are generally useless sacks of breathing meat...
Damn, that was a wild ride...
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#46"I stand with the people of China and that they need to hire researchers to design some new architecture, or anything extremely fancy." This is amazing. Reminds me of the postmodernism generator: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
I just got the same one... Are they pre-generated maybe?
Edit: Link: https://www.parrot.vc/-LvAxcZD23ySp2dL0sZw
Re: Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC
#47"I think this is God’s gift to me to understand that I'm not investing you if your idea doesn't slap, HARD."
Re: Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC
#48"I stand with the people of China and that they need to hire researchers to design some new architecture, or anything extremely fancy." This is amazing. Reminds me of the postmodernism generator: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
I just got the same one... Are they pre-generated maybe? Edit: Link: https://www.parrot.vc/-LvAxcZD23ySp2dL0sZw
They generate on a cron job every 15 minutes and I also pass the site through a Cloudflare cache because I'm cheap and the actual code runs on a $5 DigitalOcean box :-)
Re: Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC
#49How does it work?
It's a markov chain trained on around 65,000 tweets from around 50 VC's.
You really need to say that explicitly somewhere. The "I forced a bot" phrasing used in the current HN title is a clickbait trope that's not applicable here, and those "I forced a bot" scripts from Keaton Patti have spread misinformation on how AI text-generation works.
Re: Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC
#50"I stand with the people of China and that they need to hire researchers to design some new architecture, or anything extremely fancy." This is amazing. Reminds me of the postmodernism generator: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
I just got the same one... Are they pre-generated maybe? Edit: Link: https://www.parrot.vc/-LvAxcZD23ySp2dL0sZw
Me too. They must be.