Garry Tan is the head of YCombinator, which is basically the most important/influential tech incubator out there. Around 8 years back, relations were much better, and 80k and CEA actually went through YCombinator.
I’d flag that Garry specifically is kind of wacky on Twitter, compared to previous heads of YC. So I definitely am not saying it’s “EA’s fault”—I’m just flagging that there is a stigma here.
I personally would be much more hesitant to apply to YC knowing this, and I’d expect YC would be less inclined to bring in AI safety folk and likely EAs.
Random Tweet from today: https://x.com/garrytan/status/1820997176136495167
Garry Tan is the head of YCombinator, which is basically the most important/influential tech incubator out there. Around 8 years back, relations were much better, and 80k and CEA actually went through YCombinator.
I’d flag that Garry specifically is kind of wacky on Twitter, compared to previous heads of YC. So I definitely am not saying it’s “EA’s fault”—I’m just flagging that there is a stigma here.
I personally would be much more hesitant to apply to YC knowing this, and I’d expect YC would be less inclined to bring in AI safety folk and likely EAs.
I find it very difficult psychologically to take someone seriously if they use the word ‘decels’.
Want to say that I called this ~9 months ago.[1]
I will re-iterate that clashes of ideas/worldviews[2] are not settled by sitting them out and doing nothing, since they can be waged unilaterally.
Especially if you look at the various other QTs about this video across that side of Twitter
Or ‘memetic wars’, YMMV