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by Darmani
2876 days ago
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So, if I understand the system correctly: In the top 10, I see projects in Hardware, AI, Psychology, and Economics. So, the psychology guy goes up the leaderboard by producing results that will impress the people in the other fields. The surest way to do this is to jump to conclusions and ignore everything about sound experiment design. Similarly, the AI guy is incentivized to train the same neural net on a different game every week, and not to do anything new and risky. Pardon me, but this does not sound like a good system. |
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The bottom line is this rhetoric will never be confronted. Some people will be chosen and those people will retrospectively be deemed “outsiders”, thereby proving Pioneer’s mission is pure.
If you read the founder’s autobiographical blog post, you’ll see they openly admit they were not passionate about anything until they found Y Combinator. For them, passion and the pursuit of popularity are one and the same.
They seem to miss the fact that many people are passionate before getting funded for their pursuits. They definitely miss the fact that the “outsiders” they are looking for are driven by their own passion, and not the approval of others.
This is more insulting SV marketing gimmickry.