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maybe my brain is sleed-deprived but this doesn't feel great to me either. can we not be high quality people without those connections, regardless of how those
by digging 4y ago
maybe my brain is sleed-deprived but this doesn't feel great to me either. can we not be high quality people without those connections, regardless of how those connections might be made easier for the rare individuals who participate in YC?
- satvikpendem 4y agoWho is saying you/we are not high quality people? No one is saying that high quality people don't exist outside YC, just that YC accepts high quality people. You are committing the logical fallacy known as the fallacy of composition [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition
- GreymanTheGrey 4y agoI believe this was the offending sentence fragment that implied the sentiment you say is not there: "the likes of which you are unlikely to meet in the regular world"
- MichaelZuo 4y agoI read that as 'There's a higher probability of meeting high quality people in a location that actively concentrates them, then just randomly going through life.'
- dang 4y agoOf course we can! And are.
- _sentient 4y agoDefinitely not trying to imply that these people don’t exist elsewhere, but rather than YC does a great job getting a bunch of them in one place.