I have a pitch for a new LLM that will read your tweet before you send it and warn you if it is offensive. $1000/month, half off if you’re a CEO.
'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant
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#112I have a pitch for a new LLM that will read your tweet before you send it and warn you if it is offensive. $1000/month, half off if you’re a CEO.
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#113You'd never guess that this was a Tupac quote by the media coverage and wave after wave of forced outrage. The whole thing is so embarassing.
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#114As a YC alum who worked with Gary Tan directly, this is… odd. Anyone who knows Gary knows he’s a (relatively) gentle human being. I can’t imagine him hurting a fly. His tweets seem totally out of character compared to the Gary Tan I personally knew. Maybe he has changed? I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
There’s a lot of “gentle human beings” who have turned out to be horrific monsters in the end.
True in general, although tweeting a shitty thing once does not make a person a horrific monster, nor is the current moment "the end".
Re: 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant
#115I have a pitch for a new LLM that will read your tweet before you send it and warn you if it is offensive. $1000/month, half off if you’re a CEO.
Why would you charge a drunk CEO less?
Re: 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant
#116I have a pitch for a new LLM that will read your tweet before you send it and warn you if it is offensive. $1000/month, half off if you’re a CEO.
This is not a bad idea. Another one is to have it make you solve some complicated math problem or also not let you tweet when you know you are going out.. sort of like not driving to the bar. You could do that with screen time settings though.
Re: 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant
#117As a YC alum who worked with Gary Tan directly, this is… odd. Anyone who knows Gary knows he’s a (relatively) gentle human being. I can’t imagine him hurting a fly. His tweets seem totally out of character compared to the Gary Tan I personally knew. Maybe he has changed? I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
I followed Garry since the old days of Posterous. Seems like 5 years ago he took a turn and got obsessed with edge lordy SF politics. Finally I had to unfollow. Too much money has corrupted all the original startup role models
Re: 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant
#118"...two $32 bottles of Roederer Estate sparkling wine" I have half a dozen of these in my closet to get me through the month; is this supposed to be exorbitant? What's the point of talking about his reasonably modest stash we've been shown? Weird. $24.99 on sale y'all.
I felt like they were trolling… super fancy whiskey and then sparkling white wine that you pick up at Lucky on sale.
Maybe? Savvy shoppers know that Roederer Estate is about the best bang for the buck sparkling wine on the entire planet. One thing is for sure is Mr Tan has good taste in booze and doesn't waste money on Veuve any other overpriced shit from Champagne.
Re: 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant
#119As a YC alum who worked with Gary Tan directly, this is… odd. Anyone who knows Gary knows he’s a (relatively) gentle human being. I can’t imagine him hurting a fly. His tweets seem totally out of character compared to the Gary Tan I personally knew. Maybe he has changed? I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
The reaction feels like pearl-clutching to be honest.
This is the kind of shitpost most people would be able to get away with, but Tan is now too important -- and will have to curate his communications more. Especially if he's going to take such a strong position against incumbent politicians cautious of their own images.
It also feels like a smart political play by his targets to discredit him. They were probably waiting for him to slip up and say something like this.
Anyways, his position is a sympathetic one - the city is not well managed. I say this as someone who frequently disagrees with Tan.
Re: 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tan said he was drunk and apologised for his statements. Instead of oddly defending them maybe you should follow his lead and not act like saying someone should die slowly is a joke. Especially in this world where politicians have been subjected to credible death threats.
People joke about people they hate dying all the time.
This shouldn't be a normal thing. Don't encourage it.