Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its chair?

Post by tensility » Tue, Jun 18, 2024, 1:18 AM UTC

eduction wrote: post #30

dang wrote: post #22

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Actually we moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is the story. This is the #1 rule of HN moderation and has been since pg first explained it to me on the morning he started showing me how to moderate HN. If anyone wants to read about this, there are ten years' worth of past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... . It looks like a mod downweighted this story but…

> It's hard to tell if there's any there-there but, given how this sort of story usually works, the odds seem low. Not at all. The source links the relevant SEC filing. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849056/000110465921... On page 111 the false claim is plainly visible: “ Prior to joining OpenAI, Mr. Altman served as President of Y Combinator from February 2014 until March 2019. Mr. Altman currently serves…

Post by dang » Tue, Jun 18, 2024, 1:19 AM UTC

eduction wrote: post #30

dang wrote: post #22

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Actually we moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is the story. This is the #1 rule of HN moderation and has been since pg first explained it to me on the morning he started showing me how to moderate HN. If anyone wants to read about this, there are ten years' worth of past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... . It looks like a mod downweighted this story but…

> It's hard to tell if there's any there-there but, given how this sort of story usually works, the odds seem low. Not at all. The source links the relevant SEC filing. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849056/000110465921... On page 111 the false claim is plainly visible: “ Prior to joining OpenAI, Mr. Altman served as President of Y Combinator from February 2014 until March 2019. Mr. Altman currently serves…

Post by eduction » Tue, Jun 18, 2024, 1:22 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #33

eduction wrote: post #30

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> It's hard to tell if there's any there-there but, given how this sort of story usually works, the odds seem low. Not at all. The source links the relevant SEC filing. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849056/000110465921... On page 111 the false claim is plainly visible: “ Prior to joining OpenAI, Mr. Altman served as President of Y Combinator from February 2014 until March 2019. Mr. Altman currently serves…

Oh, I meant false claims about HN moderation, like the GP comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40711123 ("The mods suppress anything that makes YC or anything they invest in look bad"). That wasn't just completely made up, it's the exact opposite of the truth. My comment originally included that explicitly, but I was trying to edit it down a bit and thought this would be clear from the context. Since it wasn…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 18, 2024, 1:25 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #33

eduction wrote: post #30

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> It's hard to tell if there's any there-there but, given how this sort of story usually works, the odds seem low. Not at all. The source links the relevant SEC filing. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849056/000110465921... On page 111 the false claim is plainly visible: “ Prior to joining OpenAI, Mr. Altman served as President of Y Combinator from February 2014 until March 2019. Mr. Altman currently serves…

Oh, I meant false claims about HN moderation, like the GP comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40711123 ("The mods suppress anything that makes YC or anything they invest in look bad"). That wasn't just completely made up, it's the exact opposite of the truth. My comment originally included that explicitly, but I was trying to edit it down a bit and thought this would be clear from the context. Since it wasn…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 18, 2024, 1:29 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #23

ryandrake wrote: post #11

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You predicted it. Already on page 3. Algorithmic or not, we'll never know.

We answer questions about this kind of thing all the time (literally many times a day), both on the site and via email (hn@ycombinator.com). There's no question like this you can't find out the answer to. Whether you want the answer, or like the answer, or choose to believe the answer, are other questions.