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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 harambae »

hvb2 wrote: post #161
preisschild wrote: post #78

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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 ...

AI/ML can make the pauses, intonation, and context pronunciation (it is "bass" the fish or the guitar?) more natural/correct I'm sure.

Now whether you actually WANT your AI voice to sound completely indistinguishable from a human voice is another story. I personally wish it would remain differentiable forever, but there's no real way to enforce that.

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

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Post by consumer451 »

boshalfoshal wrote: post #94
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 most of HN can't logically arrive at this conclusion because they don't exactly buy into the premise that (1) (digital) AGI is a real concept, and will be achieved imminently (2) AGI will be world (and possibly more) changing. (3) Anthropic will be the one to do that, or at least capture a large part of it If you buy into all of these, which I'm assuming a lot of SV does at this point, then its kind of a no b…

Agreed. We are like the myth(?) of the Central American natives, who supposedly could not "see" the conquistador ships... similar to the fact that most people appear to unable to visually comprehend what this means: elon-salute.gif.

It is so hard to logically accept either possibility. I am there with everyone else.

I wish I lived in boring times.

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

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Post by PaulRobinson »

satvikpendem wrote: post #115
PaulRobinson wrote: post #76

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I disagree. I'd immediately have a ton of questions for most ex-OpenAI and ex-Anthropic people as my default position would be "poor business/economics judgement in role, chose to ride a hype cycle, now sat in front of me for a reason". I'm not saying it's toxic to have it on your work history, but it's far from gold plated. They'd have work to do for me, and for many, many people in the industry, to prove that I'd w…

Are you a hiring manager?

Yes.

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

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Post by PaulRobinson »

Aurornis wrote: post #87
PaulRobinson wrote: post #76

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I disagree. I'd immediately have a ton of questions for most ex-OpenAI and ex-Anthropic people as my default position would be "poor business/economics judgement in role, chose to ride a hype cycle, now sat in front of me for a reason". I'm not saying it's toxic to have it on your work history, but it's far from gold plated. They'd have work to do for me, and for many, many people in the industry, to prove that I'd w…

You are not in a position to hire them, let alone at a big interesting company. Forgive my bluntness, but your opinion doesn’t matter to their situation. When I say their resumes are gold-plated I mean at the companies they want to work at.

I've been on loops for people with a PhD in ML and associated fields to work on R&D roles for the FAANG I work for, so I think I have more of a chance of deploying this view in reality than most.

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

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Post by sebastiennight »

wolvesechoes wrote: post #228
sebastiennight wrote: post #187

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So, let's reinvest those resources into surveillance and war?

I mean, war, in all its cruelty and tragedy, at the same time it brings the worst from people is also able to bring out the best. Ad business, and business in general, doesn't. It only brings out the worst.

> I mean, war, in all its cruelty and tragedy, at the same time it brings the worst from people is also able to bring out the best.

I can see it from here: out of tens of thousands of people, one man takes a stand to save a handful of children from all the pillage, rape and murder.

In an alternate world, this man might have (gasp) tried to run a business instead. Sure, the children and city would still be alive instead of burning to ashes, but who cares?

Look, there's not much positive to say for the ad-driven Internet, but to consider "pixels on screens that you disagree with" to be worse than actual mass killing is maybe a tad hyperbolic here.

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

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Post by wolvesechoes »

sebastiennight wrote: post #235
wolvesechoes wrote: post #228

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I mean, war, in all its cruelty and tragedy, at the same time it brings the worst from people is also able to bring out the best. Ad business, and business in general, doesn't. It only brings out the worst.

> I mean, war, in all its cruelty and tragedy, at the same time it brings the worst from people is also able to bring out the best. I can see it from here: out of tens of thousands of people, one man takes a stand to save a handful of children from all the pillage, rape and murder. In an alternate world, this man might have (gasp) tried to run a business instead. Sure, the children and city would still be alive inste…

> but to consider "pixels on screens that you disagree with" to be worse than actual mass killing is maybe a tad hyperbolic here

And who considers this?

I never wrote that world with war but without business would be overall better than world without war but with people profiting from ad business. I merely pointed out that war can bring out the best from people - mercy, valor, honor, sacrifice, selflessness. Business cannot, as it is about commodification and profit.

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

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Post by satvikpendem »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #233
satvikpendem wrote: post #115

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Are you a hiring manager?

Yes.

Perhaps you are an exception that proves the rule because most hiring managers I know even at big tech do indeed look at the brand name and don't much care about their previous culture.

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

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Post by nimishpatel19 »

worldthruword wrote: post #83
deadbabe wrote: post #28

IMO we are in the era of “Final Companies” and the appeal of being a founder these days just isn’t great compared to the entrepreneurial boom of the 2010s and 2000s. The risk to reward ratio has never been worse.

If Product-Market fit for small companies take 3-4 years and AI can streamroll you by coming from behind, it makes sense to join the big boys rather than trying to finetune your creation in the hope of making something big.

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