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I choose to believe that the Elise in Beethoven's "Für Elise" was not any woman in Beethoven's life, but rather was a reference to Pygmalion's statue, whom Goethe -- of whom Beethoven was a huge fan -- names Elise.
After all, Beethoven composed several songs set to Goethe's poetry, as well as the music for a Goethe play.

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Pygmalion's statue (or "ivory woman") that he creates and then falls in love with, doesn't officially have a name, and is often called Galatea. But Goethe calls her "Elise"...

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1/Although Marc's post has been generally well-received (as it ought to be), I've noticed some scattered criticism along the lines of "you're a VC, what do you build, it's not like the world needs another video chat app", etc etc.
2/First of all, the "Silicon Valley is useless" meme is looking mighty stale in a coronavirus shutdown world where Zoom is letting millions of people work from home and Amazon and delivery apps are a lifeline for tens of millions to get daily necessities.
3/But beyond that, I don't think people have a great conception of what VCs actually do.

We think of VCs as these powerful, rich moneymen, when in fact they are small potatoes in the world of finance...
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Trying to create a good society with nothing but critique is like trying to create a prosperous economy with nothing but flipping houses.
Critique really is like financial trading. All you do is evaluate stuff other people make, and you try to get the prize for being the best evaluator. And you tell yourself that what you're doing is valuable because it pushes other people to make better stuff.
When a few people do financial trading, or critique stuff, it's good and valuable. But as evaluating becomes all any of us do, it means fewer and fewer people are actually building the stuff to be evaluated.
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1/A quick note about "true" death rates (IFR) from coronavirus. Disclaimer: I am not an epidemiologist, virologist, or any other type of expert.

In fact, I think there might not be a "true" IFR, since who dies might depend on stuff like age and how people get infected.
2/We know that coronavirus mortality depends on things like age, diabetes, etc.

We can adjust for those things. But there are undoubtedly OTHER factors we don't know about. And because we don't know about them, we can't adjust for them!

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3/Suppose that coronavirus mortality depends on some genetic factor, or on diet, or whatever. And we just don't know that yet.

No matter how many people we test, we'll see different death rates in different places because of those factors, and we won't know why.
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