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Re: YC Research

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Post by materialsguy »

sama wrote: post #67
urs2102 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

@sama - Interesting, I definitely think the toss up between meaningful research and high paying engineering work is very broken. You mentioned how compensation will not be determined based on conferences and papers, do you have any specifics on how you would measure "quality of output"? Will researchers be compensated differently based on said quality? (As often times the quality of research output is hard to gauge i…

Definitely still a work in a progress on how we'll measure it.

ARPA-E (The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, http://arpa-e.energy.gov/) has some interesting models on how to encourage meaningful innovation tied to continued funding. Might be worth a look. Same with DARPA.

Re: YC Research

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Post by pavornyoh »

rsync wrote: post #121
pavornyoh wrote: post #99

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It will cost you a buck buddy:). I was about to weep after losing my hard earned karma point. (Just kidding).

Stop it. Don't discuss the scoring system or your downvotes or "not sure why downvoted, but ...". Don't interrupt the real discussion to meta-discuss the scoring system.

We are not discussing the scoring system if you pay close attention. I made an initial comment and if it is misunderstood hence the edit of the original comment. Clarifying my comment does not take from the original discussion. Does it?

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

pw wrote: post #127

> I’m going to personally donate $10 million Statements like this always turn me off. I guess it's because it breaks the illusion that Sam and everyone else at YC are normal people like most of us. They're not. They're INSANELY wealthy by any reasonable standard.

I guess it's because it breaks the illusion that Sam and everyone else at YC are normal people like most of us.

Not to sound contemptuous, but are there really people out there who consider the folks running YC "normal people?"

Re: YC Research

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Post by [deleted] »

pw wrote: post #127

> I’m going to personally donate $10 million Statements like this always turn me off. I guess it's because it breaks the illusion that Sam and everyone else at YC are normal people like most of us. They're not. They're INSANELY wealthy by any reasonable standard.

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Re: YC Research

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Post by rudolf0 »

pw wrote: post #127

> I’m going to personally donate $10 million Statements like this always turn me off. I guess it's because it breaks the illusion that Sam and everyone else at YC are normal people like most of us. They're not. They're INSANELY wealthy by any reasonable standard.

I'm not quite sure who would have that illusion. The executives of investment companies (which is essentially what YC is, albeit a little bit different) tend to be wealthy.

Re: YC Research

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Post by geebee »

It's easier to comment on something specific when you disagree than when you agree but that leaves a very critical trail after a while. Since I've been critical of Sam's airbnb position and expressed a lot of concern over the amount of power a VC would have in the "founder visa" posts in the past, I would like to chime in to say that YC Research is an intriguing and exciting development with a lot of money behind it. This has the potential to be pretty great.

Re: YC Research

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Post by pw »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #134
pw wrote: post #127

> I’m going to personally donate $10 million Statements like this always turn me off. I guess it's because it breaks the illusion that Sam and everyone else at YC are normal people like most of us. They're not. They're INSANELY wealthy by any reasonable standard.

I guess it's because it breaks the illusion that Sam and everyone else at YC are normal people like most of us. Not to sound contemptuous, but are there really people out there who consider the folks running YC "normal people?"

I feel like you're using "normal people" as pejorative. I meant it as "is able to relate to the day-to-day experience of most people in this country."

Re: YC Research

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Post by InquilineKea »

mrdrozdov wrote: post #62
BinaryIdiot wrote: post #35

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Sam has expressed his desired to get really good AI to become a thing. Since YC does a ton of tech I'd bet $10 it's AI. But of course this is just my useless speculation :)

25 years is a reasonable number for how long it took deep learning research to begin getting traction. I would think AI would be a strange choice since it seems like there are a lot of research opportunities in academia and industry for this topic, but for the same reason I would say AI research is ripe for disruption.

How would funding AI through YC Research be different from what MIRI and FLI do?
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