I'm not going to presume if vetting-by-karma is true, but I know that the text you pasted above says nothing about karma except to point out how it is tangential.
But we will be more likely to fund people we know are smart from their submissions and comments.
I might be wrong, but it seems since the partners of YC are demonstrably rational human beings that they would do more than determine someone's smartness based on a score that could represent one of dozens of different things. It's like determining someone's contribution to humanity based on their savings account balance. I think they know better.
But we will be more likely to fund people we know are smart from their submissions and comments.
I might be wrong, but it seems since the partners of YC are demonstrably rational human beings that they would do more than determine someone's smartness based on a score that could represent one of dozens of different things. It's like determining someone's contribution to humanity based on their savings account balance. I think they know better.