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我没有说出口的话
What I Didn't Say
2013 — 2017，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
导读
Paul Graham 在这篇文章中回应一篇采访引发的争议，指出《The Information》刊出的版本省略了关键上下文，导致他的原话被误读，尤其是关于女性和科技行业的部分。文章逐条说明他实际说了什么、没说什么，并批评断章取义的呈现方式。
为什么经久不衰：它是对采访剪辑和舆论误读的一次冷静自辩，也提醒读者上下文与可信度的重要性，因此多年后仍值得重读。
HN 评论精选
承认自己轻信媒体；采访省略关键问题，造成对 PG 的误导性呈现。
我道歉。我此前想当然地认为，《The Information》说刊出的是对你的“完整采访”，那它就确实完整、确实是一次采访。现在看来，这篇报道明显歪曲了你；你引用的那段被删掉的问题尤其能说明问题。我仍保留一些疑虑（更多是针对这个行业，而不是 YC），但这次“采访”显然不是审视这些疑虑的好透镜。不过我也太急于下判断了，所以错也有我一份，不全是杂志的。
tptacek查看英文原文
I apologize. I took it on faith that when The Information said they were running a "complete interview" with you, that it was in fact both complete and an actual interview. It seems very clear how this piece misrepresented you; the entire elided question you cite is particularly damning. I retain some of my misgivings (which have much more to do with the industry than with YC), but the "interview" clearly wasn't a good lens through which to consider them. I was nevertheless ready to do that too quickly, so the fault is as much mine as the magazine's.
女性创始人肯定回应，并建议 YC 用盲审和数据透明改善多样性名声。
作为女性创始人，我认为这是一篇深思熟虑、表达清晰的回应，也感谢 PG 站出来谈科技行业的女性问题。类似地，我希望 YC 至少尝试一轮完全盲审的申请，并公布女性（以及黑人等）创始人申请、录取和获投比例的统计；我接触的许多女性创始人都觉得 YC 有“兄弟会”名声，我自己因此没申请 YC，而去了 Techstars。
ericabiz查看英文原文
As a female founder, I think this is a well-thought-out, articulate response, and I appreciate pg stepping up to say something about women in tech. In a similar vein, I'd love to see YC take on one or both of the following: 1) Do at least one application cycle completely blind. How could you accomplish this? Much like in the concert auditions where this was first tried, put people behind a curtain--and then use technology to change their voices so every voice sounds the same. I think it would be a really cool experiment to see if different types of companies or a more diverse founder set would get funded. 2) Publish more stats on the success of YC companies, and publish stats on % of female(, black, ...) founder applications submitted, % accepted, % funded after acceptance, etc. Of course, I'd fully expect that this would be "opt-in" from the founders as well--i.e. each set of founders would need to agree as part of the application to have their data anonymously shared. You could also share data on % who opted to not have their data shared. (Techstars is doing some great stuff with their stats here: http://www.techstars.com/companies/stats/ ) I've talked to many female founders and YC does have a reputation as a "frat house" (I told one of the YC partners that personally when he asked me to apply.) I decided to not apply to YC and instead was in the first Techstars Austin cohort, which was a fantastic program overall. Techstars definitely seemed more welcoming to women from my perspective as a geek-turned-tech-entrepreneur. I'm hoping this is the start of breaking down the "frat house" reputation around YC and getting more women actively involved with it.
质疑专门扶持女性，认为多样性回报不明且应平等对待，担心特殊照顾强化群体对立。
为什么增加科技行业女性被自动视为值得投入资源的可嘉目标？我是中东裔，虽也希望周围有更多同族，但不愿为此花资源，因为回报太模糊；观点多样性并不自动有益。告诉别人“别追求 X，去学编程”也有点傲慢。为什么只限女性？我该不该为阿拉伯人、非洲人、因纽特人倡导？平等对待每个人有什么不好？特殊照顾还会强化“我们/他们”。匿名因为不想被烧死。
throwaway135查看英文原文
Why is adding more women to the tech industry automatically assumed a laudable goal to throw resources behind? I'm Middle-Eastern (probably a smaller minority in the North-American tech scene compared to women), and while I (like most people) would certainly like to be surrounded by more of my brethren, it's not something I'd be comfortable spending resources on because the return on investment is so nebulous; diversity of views isn't automatically beneficial as is commonly assumed (an extreme example: you wouldn't expect a conservative big-corporation suit-wearing type to benefit a two-founder startup team). It also seems a bit arrogant to tell people 'you should stop pursuing X and learn coding instead'. I wonder what would have happened had someone convinced Marie Curie, Jane Austen, or Hillary Clinton to go into programming instead of their respective fields (yes, I realise computers weren't invented in the case of the former two, but I hope you understand my point). Finally, why is all this restricted to women only? Should I start advocating for Arabs? Africans? Inuit? It very quickly turns into a lot of duplicated effort. What's wrong with treating everyone equally? Not to mention that special-casing also reinforces the idea of 'us' and 'them', which I don't feel is productive either. (throwaway because I don't want to be burned at the stake for publicly asking such questions)
可信度需长期积累；PG 应获疑点利益，群体狂热导致误判，他的回应得体有力。
可信度来自拉丁语 credo（我相信），比金钱更宝贵：它让人被尊重、被信任，愿意继续和你打交道。信用和可信度同根，都是存疑时给予信任的依据。PG 长期赢得了这种信任，当如此离谱的东西被归到他头上时，他理应得到疑点利益；他在这里没得到，说明群体狂热会扭曲判断。PG 的回应则像轻声细语的证人当众推翻霸凌律师，让暴民显得愚蠢。
grellas查看英文原文
A word about credibility. It comes from the Latin word credo, meaning "I trust." Its value exceeds that of money because it marks you as a person - as someone who is respected, who is trustworthy, and whom you would want to count as a friend. It marks you not as perfect but as special. It makes others ponder not so much that they did the last deal with you but that they would want to do the next deal too. Just as we build credit through many transactions, so we build credibility by the very pattern of our lives. Credit and credibility derive from the same root and signify the same thing: when in doubt, we can trust the one who has either trait. Not blind trust, just a benefit-of-the-doubt level of trust. Well, pg has earned our trust and deserved the benefit of the doubt when something so off kilter as this is attributed to him. He did not get it here, and that is a sad testament to how crowd-inspired frenzies can bend our perceptions in such faulty ways. Let us only hope that we can learn some good lessons from this. pg's response is actually priceless: it is like a soft-spoken witness upending a bullying lawyer who had just viciously attacked him, leaving the attacker reeling for all to see. Indeed, the mob looks pretty much like an ass at this point and kudos to pg for his more-than-able defense. Very lawyer-like, in a way, but far more classy.
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