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At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic

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Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic

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Post by hvb2 »

preisschild wrote: post #78
dgellow wrote: post #68

Whatever you think of AI for your own work, the fact that the entire economy is betting everything on it is really concerning. It’s not just the fact that it may not work well economically speaking and would end up with a market crash, or all the negative externalities from AI development, it’s also the opportunity cost we are paying. With so much human capital and resources dedicated to developing and running LLMs a…

I also think this is a huge problem in government. A lot of government services could be digitized via simple CRUD API/UIs and instead politicians talk about AI...

That could be every tech exec/marketeer/sales person now...

We've had text to speech for a while for example but everything is now AI. Does it use any AI features? Not at all ...

Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic

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Post by lbrito »

florakel wrote: post #81
dgellow wrote: post #68

Whatever you think of AI for your own work, the fact that the entire economy is betting everything on it is really concerning. It’s not just the fact that it may not work well economically speaking and would end up with a market crash, or all the negative externalities from AI development, it’s also the opportunity cost we are paying. With so much human capital and resources dedicated to developing and running LLMs a…

I prefer that scenario to the one we had before where too many smart people were building out social networks and similar services trying to maximize ad impressions. We are still dealing with the consequences…

That's not what was happening though. Whatever happened between 2000 and 2022 cannot be compared to the llm monomania we see now.

Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic

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Post by jedberg »

MikhailTal wrote: post #96
bix6 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that he did start a company so his comment is really saying you have to be crazy enough to start a company

"Lottery winner says you should not gamble"

Which is totally valid! You shouldn’t gamble to get rich, and that’s true whether you’ve won in the past or not.

Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic

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Post by sandeepkd »

kortilla wrote: post #146
jayd16 wrote: post #142

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The consequences are different this time because why? Seems like an even bigger opportunity to inject ads, influence thought, and scrape user information.

The potential upside in positives is actually there. New cures, personalized really good medicine, breakthroughs in every scientific field, etc. The people are there because they are betting on AGI, not chatbots that make software engineering go faster.

any concrete evidences to support this theory from the past 12 months would be helpful here (where evidence > marketing fluff)

Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic

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Post by CamperBob2 »

dgellow wrote: post #68

Whatever you think of AI for your own work, the fact that the entire economy is betting everything on it is really concerning. It’s not just the fact that it may not work well economically speaking and would end up with a market crash, or all the negative externalities from AI development, it’s also the opportunity cost we are paying. With so much human capital and resources dedicated to developing and running LLMs a…

It’s not just the fact that it may not work well economically speaking

That's not going to happen. Everything is different now, and the only long-term losers will be those who continue to deny it. Even now we still see stupid analogies to parrots, calculators, toddlers, and so on, being advanced here of all places.

and would end up with a market crash

That might happen, because the first attempt a market makes to allocate funding and spending optimally is almost never on target. Great, it'll give the rest of us a chance to buy in.

Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic

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Post by consumer451 »

sesteel wrote: post #38
consumer451 wrote: post #34

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What I find more interesting is how many people have left big orgs where they had major leadership roles, to become ICs at Anthropic.

I think it is more than just money. Having a hand in steering the ship that they think will change the world is pretty attractive. I came out of retirement just to watch the spectacle.

> I came out of retirement just to watch the spectacle.

While I certainly have no hand in steering the ship, agentic building brought me out of hibernation/mild depression. I am neither young, nor rich. However, I still had lots of product ideas, and now I am able to create and test them in days. And yes, I am actually making sales now.

I got into this early at Sonnet 3.5 release time, so I went through initial AI psychosis almost two years ago, but still today, I am more excited to wake up and work than I’ve ever been in my life.

Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic

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Post by CamperBob2 »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #155
vkou wrote: post #152

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Social networks only destroyed discourse. This both destroys discourse, and centralizes the means of production into ~4 companies, with everyone else paying them an economic tax in order to be competitive.

Whatsapp provides tremendous utility. I remember paying far more “economic tax” before Whatsapp to communicate, with basically anyone in the world. Facebook Marketplace also provides me with quite a bit utility.

What "economic tax" was imposed by the Web, email, Usenet, and forums?

Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic

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Post by kortilla »

terribleperson wrote: post #125
warshinder wrote: post #108

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Not to mention how they will be used by terrorists and evil people to create biological weapons and other tools of mass slaughter. Or how it will be/is being used by criminals to target vulnerable people and businesses. Or how coupled with drone warfare the world becomes an unlivable hellhole in the next decade. But Marc Andreesan said only losers are against “tech accelerationiism” on twitter so here we are. Edit: a…

You can, right now, find out how to synthesize VX or sarin, or how to weaponize anthrax. You can and have been able to acquire this knowledge without the use of AI. Knowledge is not the obstacle to proliferation of biological and chemical weapons. It's hard to set up the infrastructure. See Aum Shinrikyo.

But the difference is AI made it easier for dumb radicals to discover this AND it will walk you through the infrastructure.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/us/politics/ai-terrorism-...

Re: At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic

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Post by warshinder »

hack1312 wrote: post #123
warshinder wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to mention how they will be used by terrorists and evil people to create biological weapons and other tools of mass slaughter. Or how it will be/is being used by criminals to target vulnerable people and businesses. Or how coupled with drone warfare the world becomes an unlivable hellhole in the next decade. But Marc Andreesan said only losers are against “tech accelerationiism” on twitter so here we are. Edit: a…

Terrorists and evil people already use the internet for the same thing.

I’m not defending the internet!
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