What are some actually *valid* critiques of Silicon Valley and the tech industry? A riff on @slatestarcodex's post: http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/05/actually-good-silicon-valley-critiques.html …
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It doesn't bother me that SV is held to a higher standard, in keeping with our public ethos
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Note that I couldn't come up with much.
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Is there an equivalent expression to "damning with faint praise" for this situation?
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Praising with faint damns?
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Doesn't quite have the ring
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2) And they're the wrong kind of bad. They invest rarely, make decisions by committee, and depend on inexperienced filters called associates
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3) In contrast, YC invests widely, failing small & early, & only needs 2 succeed rarely, copying biological patterns like anitbody creation
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4) As a result, we have huge misallocation of capital. It's hard to argue that SV represents markets at work, since info is so imperfect.
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5) What we have are biases at work, resulting in the persistent neglect of startups founded by non-white-male, non-Stanford/Google founders
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