Why YC went to DC

Post by threeseed » Tue, Jun 04, 2024, 1:28 AM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #45

probably_wrong wrote: post #42

Apologies for the negative tone: > First, let’s prioritize open source models and more tailored AI applications to shape the competitive landscape and create real opportunities for startups. How does YC square this statement with the fact that their ex-president closed their models with the explicit intention of slowing down competitors [1]? Or is the argument "we want politicians to discourage people like us from do…

I mean, they parted ways long ago, and pg released a statement recently as to the nature of that breakup. People and organizations can change their mind.

Post by bumby » Tue, Jun 04, 2024, 1:35 AM UTC

pjmorris wrote: post #240

bumby wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ignoring that a “stroke of the pen” is a dictatorial solution almost by definition… Considering Medicare/Medicaid are currently approaching $1T annually to serve less than 20% of the population how dues your stroke of the pen plan pay for the increase when everyone is enrolled? Hospitals are forced to accept Medicare, but in many cases this is at a loss, subsidized by private charges elsewhere. So you’ll need to find…

> Considering Medicare/Medicaid are currently approaching $1T annually to serve less than 20% of the population how dues your stroke of the pen plan pay for the increase when everyone is enrolled? Most countries manage on ~12% or less of GDP, the US takes ~17% of GDP to pay for healthcare [0]. For example, the UK manages to cover everyone for about 12% of GDP. If the US adopted a plan as ubiquitous as the UK, in the…

Post by password4321 » Tue, Jun 04, 2024, 1:46 AM UTC

waprin wrote: post #70

mrb wrote: post #14

"This year, we’ll fund more than 500 companies out of 50,000 applications, and almost all of them are related to AI in some way." So, what this means: that in 2024, if you want to get VC capital, your startup must be related to AI.

What’s ironic is that Michael Seibel has discussed many times on the YC podcast that you should avoid building whatever’s hot for VCs because their attention tends to change every year but you’ll be stuck building for a decade. 2020 was remote work, 2021 was web3, now we have the big LLM boom. Honestly it seems there’s a lot of advantages to “riding a wave” and a lot of advantages to being contrarian. But if raising…

Post by Affric » Tue, Jun 04, 2024, 2:06 AM UTC

xyst wrote: post #160

> This country is built on the idea of rugged individualism, ingenuity, and grit. > It’s also built on the idea of equal opportunity Anybody else get “out of touch” vibes from this post?

Post by cma » Tue, Jun 04, 2024, 2:18 AM UTC

yqx wrote: post #131

simonw wrote: post #13

This new essay by Jack Clark, who was at OpenAI when they made the decision not to release GPT-2 for safety reasons five years ago, feels relevant: https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-375-gpt-2-five-yea... > [...] history shows that once we assign power to governments, they're loathe to subsequently give that power back to the people. Policy is a ratchet and things tend to accrete over time. That means whatever…

I'm curious what history Jack Clark is referring to here. If I think of the last thirty years of policy in most of Europe and the US I'm thinking of a strong trend of deregulation and giving more powers to markets, removing international trade barriers and so on. That seems to be a dynamic opposite to the one the quoted article is suggesting.