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…I realize this is an extreme parody, but if this is even close to a Bay Area party, I’ll stick to my Chicago scene, thank you very much. Less AI alignment dis

…I realize this is an extreme parody, but if this is even close to a Bay Area party, I’ll stick to my Chicago scene, thank you very much. Less AI alignment discourse, more house music and ketamine.

0_____0 4y ago
Depends on who you know and where specifically you are. I have been to house parties in Mountain View that resonate with this. And loads of parties (mostly SF/Oakland) that had music and K. And the occasional crypto douche.
- et-al 4y ago
  Occasional crypto douche? I’ve got to be more selective about the parties I’m attending. It’s closer to 33% crypto for me.
  - 0_____0 4y ago
    You’re in a weird tech bubble. Bay IME is very diverse but also very Scene-ey. Well worth it to break out and diversify. I wish I had when I was there, I ended up moving cross country and making more intentional decisions about my starting set of friends here.
dilyevsky 4y ago
Unless the Risk Management Guy is visiting from Chicago that clearly didn’t take place in the bay
- rexreed 4y ago
  It's one of those ironic Meme shirts sold on Etsy. Same dude sells Lehman Bros Risk Management (2008) shirts.
  - dilyevsky 4y ago
    Ok that went over my head. Then definitively bay area
01100011 4y ago
In my experience it's a lot less interesting than this. It's more like your typical party scene except everyone does drugs and is into polyamory or some non-traditional sexual practice. I swear, literally every time I set foot in SF city limits someone offers me drugs... usually harder ones than I'd prefer. No, I don't want coke and some ADHD meds FFS. And no, we're not going to fuck. Married, thanks. I miss SF being about weed and psychedelics. God damn I can't wait to leave the Bay Area...
- sagarm 4y ago
  I must radiate "normie" energy because my experience is nothing like this. SF is just a nice city with good amenities, and where not knowing anything about the local sports team is completely normal.
naet 4y ago
This is only a "Bay Area party" in an extremely small bubble of tech workers with insufferable personalities. It says more about the author than about the region. The bay is a diverse place with all kinds of communities and parties. Definitely no shortage of house music and ketamine for those that are interested. Or metal and biker bars if you prefer. Smoke a spliff outside the craft brewery, drink tall cans at the street fair, hang a piñata in the park for your kids, etc.
- adastra22 4y ago
  Not sure why you're being downvoted. This is a very specific, really small subgroup of people that Scott Alexander (blog author) hangs out with. This particular subgroup is hyper-centered around the Bay Area (Oakland/Berkeley, specifically), but the Bay Area is not centered around these people.
  - SilasX 4y ago
    >Not sure why you're being downvoted. The unnecessary swipe of calling them insufferable. Use of deliberately obscure terms as an additional reason.
    - adastra22 4y ago
      Well, having been to these parties too, I would find that word descriptive and accurate.
TeMPOraL 4y ago
To each their own. I find typical parties with music and dancing and substance abuse boring (I'd take the ketamine, though, thanks). I would love to talk AI alignment on a party, particularly because people capable of holding a conversation on this topic can, in my experience, talk about many other things that don't boil down to sex, parties, $dayjob and regurgitating political memes from the news.
- perardi 4y ago
  Oh don’t be so serious, it’s a playful article, I was being playful too. And the parties I go to are…well, they have some novelty outside of sex and memes. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm485RMuEIj/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm485RMuEIj/ Plenty of sex, though!
saagarjha 4y ago
You're just upset that your party scene isn't deep enough for someone to write a parody of.
hcks 4y ago
> Less AI alignment discourse, more house music and ketamine. Whoa you’re so cool man
api 4y ago
There’s no alpha left in house music and ketamine.
- hcks 4y ago
  based, imagine mentioning these as something cool in 2023, hello boomer
  - api 4y ago
    Those are solidly gen-X to older millennial, not boomer.
    - ModernMech 4y ago
      The “boomer” memes aren’t meant to be taken literally. “Ackshually”-ing them is about as boomer as it gets.
    - perardi 4y ago
      …well, as the kids probably don’t say, “seen”. Very much an older millennial.
skedaddle 4y ago
There is any kind of party you would want to go to here, except for maybe like, Ozarks style river hooliganism.

0_____0 4y ago

Depends on who you know and where specifically you are. I have been to house parties in Mountain View that resonate with this. And loads of parties (mostly SF/Oakland) that had music and K. And the occasional crypto douche.

et-al 4y ago
Occasional crypto douche? I’ve got to be more selective about the parties I’m attending. It’s closer to 33% crypto for me.
- 0_____0 4y ago
  You’re in a weird tech bubble. Bay IME is very diverse but also very Scene-ey. Well worth it to break out and diversify. I wish I had when I was there, I ended up moving cross country and making more intentional decisions about my starting set of friends here.

dilyevsky 4y ago

Unless the Risk Management Guy is visiting from Chicago that clearly didn’t take place in the bay

rexreed 4y ago
It's one of those ironic Meme shirts sold on Etsy. Same dude sells Lehman Bros Risk Management (2008) shirts.
- dilyevsky 4y ago
  Ok that went over my head. Then definitively bay area

01100011 4y ago

In my experience it's a lot less interesting than this. It's more like your typical party scene except everyone does drugs and is into polyamory or some non-traditional sexual practice. I swear, literally every time I set foot in SF city limits someone offers me drugs... usually harder ones than I'd prefer. No, I don't want coke and some ADHD meds FFS. And no, we're not going to fuck. Married, thanks. I miss SF being about weed and psychedelics. God damn I can't wait to leave the Bay Area...

sagarm 4y ago
I must radiate "normie" energy because my experience is nothing like this. SF is just a nice city with good amenities, and where not knowing anything about the local sports team is completely normal.

naet 4y ago

This is only a "Bay Area party" in an extremely small bubble of tech workers with insufferable personalities. It says more about the author than about the region. The bay is a diverse place with all kinds of communities and parties. Definitely no shortage of house music and ketamine for those that are interested. Or metal and biker bars if you prefer. Smoke a spliff outside the craft brewery, drink tall cans at the street fair, hang a piñata in the park for your kids, etc.

adastra22 4y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. This is a very specific, really small subgroup of people that Scott Alexander (blog author) hangs out with. This particular subgroup is hyper-centered around the Bay Area (Oakland/Berkeley, specifically), but the Bay Area is not centered around these people.
- SilasX 4y ago
  >Not sure why you're being downvoted. The unnecessary swipe of calling them insufferable. Use of deliberately obscure terms as an additional reason.
  - adastra22 4y ago
    Well, having been to these parties too, I would find that word descriptive and accurate.

TeMPOraL 4y ago

To each their own. I find typical parties with music and dancing and substance abuse boring (I'd take the ketamine, though, thanks). I would love to talk AI alignment on a party, particularly because people capable of holding a conversation on this topic can, in my experience, talk about many other things that don't boil down to sex, parties, $dayjob and regurgitating political memes from the news.

perardi 4y ago
Oh don’t be so serious, it’s a playful article, I was being playful too. And the parties I go to are…well, they have some novelty outside of sex and memes. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm485RMuEIj/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm485RMuEIj/ Plenty of sex, though!

saagarjha 4y ago

You're just upset that your party scene isn't deep enough for someone to write a parody of.

hcks 4y ago

> Less AI alignment discourse, more house music and ketamine. Whoa you’re so cool man

api 4y ago

There’s no alpha left in house music and ketamine.

hcks 4y ago
based, imagine mentioning these as something cool in 2023, hello boomer
- api 4y ago
  Those are solidly gen-X to older millennial, not boomer.
  - ModernMech 4y ago
    The “boomer” memes aren’t meant to be taken literally. “Ackshually”-ing them is about as boomer as it gets.
  - perardi 4y ago
    …well, as the kids probably don’t say, “seen”. Very much an older millennial.

skedaddle 4y ago

There is any kind of party you would want to go to here, except for maybe like, Ozarks style river hooliganism.