vihart

I dunno, probly that weird vibe you get when a community spends more time trying to sleuth out ways to delegitimize your words via irrelevant factors than considering that maybe as the author of the original content maybe you know a thing or two.

Vi Hart here... someone sent me this with confusion that it was at the top of HN yet all the comments are completely irrelevant. My understanding is that HN and YC are usually about startuppy stuff and business models and investors and etc, so I guess it makes sense that everyone's in that mindset.

We're not a startup and not looking to reach a broad audience, get investors, or create a product. We even wrote a thing a while back regarding our not being a startup, because it is an unfamiliar concept to many people: http://elevr.com/were-not-a-startup/

The HARC group at Y Combinator Research has/had an ambitious vision of bringing back the basic research model that led to many fundamental innovations in the 60s, including a handful of groups in addition to ours. The kind of research that creates enormous value that cannot be captured by individual investors or companies, but that lifts the industry/people as a whole.

I think if world events had been different, the timing would have worked out well for a resurgence of this kind of research.

Ok nice chat, HN. You're a weird place.

Vi