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Hyperbole acknowledged, but venture capital firms generally don't look for the world's biggest problems, nor do they claim to. YC is no exception.
This is the biggest problem in the world, according to YC. As befits the title “moonshot,” it’s the most pressing problem we face. It’s SO HARD that we might not ever fully solve it, but it’s SO IMPORTANT to society that we should fund it anyway. Homelessness? Hunger? Nope:https://twitter.com/newsycombinator/status/1103898302989254657 …
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Using the word moonshot is explicitly making exactly that claim.
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That's not my understanding of that word, but dictionaries as yet haven't caught up with us. To me moonshot= big R&D project, one that will require breakthrough tech. eg Apollo. Sincere thanks for the reply tho- at least I have a better sense of your original comment.
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FWIW, here's the most apropos Urban Dictionary def, not that they R final authority: "awesome, fantastic, almost impossible to achieve, the best, the reason for success, reaching the highest point, right on target #awesome#fantastic#best#highest#target" I don't like it either.
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I’ve only ever understood it to mean “ambitious with a high chance of failure”. That said, a few years ago they called for ideas for solving climate and water problems. I wish they’d do more of that.
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There's nothing sadder in Silicon Valley than seeing people upset about traffic and concluding that the right thing to work on is flying transportation
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They’ve funded cheap food startups & cheap housing startups, as well as non-profits & policy research on stuff like UBI. If they also fund flying motorcycles that seems ok to me. I hope they make bank and that helps them do more of the other stuff.
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That is a many-layered onion of "why?" At the center of it, I suspect, is the question of why you'd want the people who already can't manage themselves on the 101 operating in three dimensions.
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This isn't new. SV's whole thing is to throw a party for itself.
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can I fly the motorcycle to the moon or what
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It HURTS when you make me shoot bubbly water out my nostrils.
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It's most likely for war.
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Room full of the world's most brilliant scientists and limitless resources: Ok team. I know the task sounds daunting, but I know you have the grit and the know-how. We can do it. We can we get Brad's slacks pressed and back to him in _scans room with resolve_ twelve hours.
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Isn’t it TechCrunch that called it a “moonshot”, not YC? The article has a quote from YC partner that says he can’t imagine people not getting excited... but that’s still not characterizing jet packs as the biggest problem in the world
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To be fair, we also had a lot of hunger, poverty and disease 57 years ago, when we decided it was really important to send tourists to the moon before the soviets did.
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Reducing the population is the solution to poverty
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Self-driving cars and flying motorcycles may be the way we'll achieve that.
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