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Re: YC's Biggest Scandals

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Post by wrqvrwvq »

ianm218 wrote: post #24
jnovek wrote: post #16

As an alum from the ancient days I take issue with many of the companies that YC funds these days. Flock? 9 Mothers? This shit is dystopian and I hate that I’m somehow even tangentially associated with it.

9 mothers appears to do defense from drones which seems completely ethical. What is dystopian about that?

out of all the companies listed, yc would of course choose something like this. "wow you're going to defend american soldiers????" yc and this site are chinese ops run by the scummiest sinotrash on earth. steal millions and deliver vaporware? "oh sounds like a failed business". try to protect soldiers from drones? "oh sounds like you're the terminator highly unethical sar."

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Post by gchamonlive »

benoau wrote: post #78
gchamonlive wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is why these critical pieces are important, so that this proportion doesn't increase. YC should stand these criticisms lest it become a religion of sorts.

If YC had a chance of being a "religion of sorts" it would have been about Paul Graham, that ship sailed a decade ago.

It apparently already is, just trying to say something marginally critical about YC will enrage the zealots of social mobility with their metaphorical pitchforks. But yeah, thinking back, it's not a religion, it's already a cult.

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Post by mikesabat »

I'm doing this with my son. Dcflagproject.com

Replit for the website (he did the first 80%), Gemini to make the flyers and he'll be walking the neighborhood and talking to neighbors.

Re: YC's Biggest Scandals

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Post by xaxfixho »

gchamonlive wrote: post #58
tptacek wrote: post #23

YC has funded over 5000 companies, and this page catalogs 39 that failed, many of which, on the sites own terms, are simply business failures, with no additional drama. I don't think the authors of the site realize the case they're actually making here.

Which is why these critical pieces are important, so that this proportion doesn't increase. YC should stand these criticisms lest it become a religion of sorts.

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Post by wheelerwj »

dadrian wrote: post #32
tptacek wrote: post #23

YC has funded over 5000 companies, and this page catalogs 39 that failed, many of which, on the sites own terms, are simply business failures, with no additional drama. I don't think the authors of the site realize the case they're actually making here.

There's something ironic about vibe-coding an anti-YC site. They're why OpenAI exists!

Ooof. Thats a statement.

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Post by globalnode »

not sure theres any value in criticizing yc on their own platform. not that i think theres much to criticize. they provide an essential service in connecting money to computer based business ideas. overall i think they do a good job and the news forum keeps it interesting for readers while serving a dual purpose. its a great idea. my only gripe is that its not emulated in many other countries!

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Post by Loughla »

akerl_ wrote: post #80
Loughla wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That means 18 year olds will get splattered. I'm not for that. The kids who die in the military are just kids, regardless of their job. They aren't personally responsible for the shit orders they get. The problem is that anything made for defense is almost inherently useful for offense, and the US is not the most trustworthy government right now. It's, sadly, not inconceivable that an automatic turret mounted shotgun…

Sorry, so what's your position here? Are you for or against people working on anti-combat-drone technology? The comment you're replying to is pointing out the oddity of being anti-good-thing because somebody might one day invert their company's mission entirely.

I missed the sarcasm in OP's post, I guess. I read it as a flat comment to not have the technology.

Re: YC's Biggest Scandals

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Post by mediaman »

delbronski wrote: post #60
mediaman wrote: post #46

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It sounds like you feel that autonomous killer drones are a dystopia, and that anything related to the drones -- including mitigating their effect -- is therefore dystopian in itself, even if it is combating that dystopia? Sort of a tarring by contextual environment? I suppose by that reasoning a socialist is a capitalist because even though they fight capitalism they live in a capitalist society. I'm not really foll…

“It sounds like you feel that autonomous killer drones are a dystopia, and that anything related to the drones“ Yes!!! What do you think a dystopia is? The entire world of 1984 is a dystopia. Just cause there’s a company making money to “combat” that dystopia doesn’t make the thing any less dystopian.

That sounds like a fallacy of composition to me.

That some element of the world is dystopian means the world is therefore dystopian.

And if the world is dystopian, then every element of it is dystopian: no element of the world is not dystopian.

It's an interesting "poison the well" type of argument, but it also means that if one accepts that all of human history has had dystopian elements (chemical weapons, slavery, feudalism, etc etc), that therefore the world has always been dystopian, and that then therefore everything in the world has also always been dystopian. And you've created a label that includes everything that has ever existed and excludes none of it, which is meaningless.

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