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AI Startup School with Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Andrej Karpathy

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Re: AI Startup School with Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Andrej Karpathy

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Post by steveBK123 »

searke wrote: post #10

What about people who aren't interested in autocratic racists who throw out the nazi salute?

The level to which VC has debased itself to bend the knee to the orange man is without limit, and we are only days into this administration..

Re: AI Startup School with Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Andrej Karpathy

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Post by RestartKernel »

With Elon being such a politically contentious figure, I'm surprised the organisers are expecting his name to be anything but trouble by June. Then again, if his actions up till now haven't gotten him shunned yet, maybe nothing will.

Re: AI Startup School with Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Andrej Karpathy

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Post by hahamrfunnyguy »

Musk has shown he has a real lack of business acumen about most things. He ran Twitter into the ground and is doing the same with Tesla. I have no interest in what he has to say. That of course is leaving aside everything else going on.

Y Combinator is really showing an incredible lack of judgement in even thinking this was a good idea. SV bubble I guess?

Re: AI Startup School with Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Andrej Karpathy

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Post by dTal »

This tacit endorsement by YCombinator of the likes of Elon Musk and Sam Altman must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. Like Sam Altman's abrupt Face-Heel turn from staunch and eloquent Trump critic into gushing bootlicker [0], it is a shocking wakeup call that Silicon Valley monied interests either lack principles entirely, or else adhere to principles fundamentally at odds with liberal democracy [1].

I found myself hesitating to post this, here on news.ycombinator.com. This forum has always discouraged "politics". But in the final analysis, you cannot separate politics from everything else. The suffering and death that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are currently in the process of expediting[2] is no less real for being "political". And if criticizing YCombinator for endorsing - or at least turning a blind eye to - this death and suffering, is considered "off topic", then this will be my last comment on this platform.

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/US/openais-sam-altman-warned-america-...

[1] This video is currently trending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/07/donald...

Re: AI Startup School with Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Andrej Karpathy

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Post by tmpz22 »

gkoberger wrote: post #14

Ugh. No. This ain't it. One thing I always loved at YC was that it always felt like the aspirational version of what the tech industry could be. As big tech became the "bad guys", YC has continued to forge the inspirational path... quietly helping the builders and the makers. Inviting Elon Musk, who is a Nazi sympathizer currently trying to take down the American government, really sucks.

> YC was that it always felt like the aspirational version of what the tech industry could be

Which YC companies or actions indicated they were a indicator of public good or public progress?

Which YC leaders indicated they were actors for good as opposed to merely good actors? Altman? Tan?

Ultimately the demographic of HN needs to realize whose interests we’re serving by posting here. If it’s free you are the product.

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