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Re: Y Combinator Early Access Network

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Post by Grosvenor »

walrus01 wrote: post #6
ViktorRay wrote: post #2

Wonder if people going to this will have the same infamous sense of arrogance and entitlement that is common to Y combinator folks? Source: https://x.com/mcuban/status/692595120969875456

Mark Cuban posting about a sense of arrogance and entitlement is certainly something . There's a reason behind the character of HBO Silicon Valley's Russ Hanneman... [spiderman pointing at spiderman.gif]

I thought Chris Sacca was the inspiration for Russ Hanneman.

The beard, the shirts, the sexual assault allegations. The three nannies suing him - one for no good reason!

Re: Y Combinator Early Access Network

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Post by nostrebored »

ViktorRay wrote: post #2

Wonder if people going to this will have the same infamous sense of arrogance and entitlement that is common to Y combinator folks? Source: https://x.com/mcuban/status/692595120969875456

Having been through YC, there's certainly some of this, but the overwhelming majority of founders were pretty down to earth. People generally just want to solve hard problems.

Re: Y Combinator Early Access Network

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Post by random3 »

avaer wrote: post #7

It's been obvious for years that AI will bifurcate society even more between the haves and have nots, contrary to "democratizing AI" niceties espoused by big AI CEOs. It was less obvious that access will be further gated by an Old Boy Network. I guess the frontier model whitelists of yestermonth were a portent.

Nature has shown variety wins over inbreeding, I don't see how AI will change this

Re: Y Combinator Early Access Network

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Post by mitxela »

random3 wrote: post #14
avaer wrote: post #7

It's been obvious for years that AI will bifurcate society even more between the haves and have nots, contrary to "democratizing AI" niceties espoused by big AI CEOs. It was less obvious that access will be further gated by an Old Boy Network. I guess the frontier model whitelists of yestermonth were a portent.

Nature has shown variety wins over inbreeding, I don't see how AI will change this

Inbreeding won all human societies until about 1900 and will win all human societies from now on.

Re: Y Combinator Early Access Network

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random3 wrote: post #14
avaer wrote: post #7

It's been obvious for years that AI will bifurcate society even more between the haves and have nots, contrary to "democratizing AI" niceties espoused by big AI CEOs. It was less obvious that access will be further gated by an Old Boy Network. I guess the frontier model whitelists of yestermonth were a portent.

Nature has shown variety wins over inbreeding, I don't see how AI will change this

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Re: Y Combinator Early Access Network

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Post by pj_mukh »

avaer wrote: post #7

It's been obvious for years that AI will bifurcate society even more between the haves and have nots, contrary to "democratizing AI" niceties espoused by big AI CEOs. It was less obvious that access will be further gated by an Old Boy Network. I guess the frontier model whitelists of yestermonth were a portent.

YCombinator has its biases, but I don't know of many other investment firms that have a university style, "application" process. It's almost always, warm-intros you need.

This Early access network is just an intro system once you get through the Application process (like Universities having a job fair).

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