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by loanedempathy 476 days ago
Thank you for putting it this way.

I watched people scam VCs with drone tech, and Theranos, and other things.

Can people please do any amount of critical thinking around this sort of stuff? It steals funding from serious efforts and pollutes the pool.

What is special in this approach compared to literal decades in the field?

What is special about these young dudes compared to better-funded ventures that haven't pulled it off yet and who have been working on it longer?

What is the difference between "yeah we can do design work look at all this stuff (that's the easy 60-80% of the problem space)" versus "we can actually solve the remaining work that's got everybody so screwed up"?

This feels like a scam y'all, knowingly or not.