Pim just pointed out that our essay is the top organic result for World Models, ahead of Nvidia, the original Ha and Schmidhuber GitHub, Reddit, Nature, and Wikipedia.
@packym
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AI Models: Betting on Progress Without Existential Risk
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they're making a bet that models get smarter and/or more useful than they are today, but not so smart and/or useful that they just eat everything on top of them. there's a lot of "this technology is totally different than anything that came before" but "woah woah not so
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Pre-seed category definition debate in startup ecosystem
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You are talking letter of the law I’m talking spirit of it. It is objectively dumb and lazy that all pre-seeds should be sub-10 or whatever. “Pre-seed” companies aren’t a real category. They’re a granfalloon.
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Seed Stage Revenue Multiples and Gross Margins Discussion
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Who is talking about seed stage revenue multiples and gross margins?
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What Do You Know About Venture Fundraising
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Eh what do you know about venture fundraising anyway
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Venture Capital Struggles Predicting Quality Over Funding Signals
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"The market has optimised around funding signals, which are legible earlier. It hasn't gotten better at recognising quality / predicting outcomes. If the latter were true, there would have been a noticable lift in venture returns, rather than a noticable decline." Still may be
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Seed Valuations Rising: A Venture Capital Market Perspective
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Some spicy takes on venture capital: – Saying that "seed has gotten expensive" or something and then pointing to a valuation – like "they used to be $10 million and now they're $20 million" – is bascially the same thing as people who say Stock A is more expensive than Stock B
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Dad Built YC Startup Idea and Got Rich Fast
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Mom how did we get so rich? Back in 2026, your dad read the YC Request for Startups and just built one of the ideas on the list. x.com/ycombinator/st…
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Dad Built YC Startup Idea and Got Rich
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Mom how did we get so rich? Back in 2026, your dad read the YC Request for Startups and just built one of the ideas on the list.
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AI’s Most Impressive Achievement: Carrying 2001 Finals Roster
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Game time. Took this opportunity to explain to the kids how insane it was that The Answer carried that roster to the 2001 Finals. Still the most impressive thing an AI has ever done.