Huh my impression was always that the Bay Area is one of the least libertarian areas of the US, and the biggest ideological clashes on HN tend to come from the

Huh my impression was always that the Bay Area is one of the least libertarian areas of the US, and the biggest ideological clashes on HN tend to come from the Valley startup scene views colliding with the rest of the world in an open forum. See how much wailing and gnashing of teeth there is over AI safety in the Californian startup scene, in which safety gets defined as a fear that an AI might talk like or have the views of normal people.