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I think this comment is slightly exaggerated. I didn’t see that many ads for AI companies and while I did see some driverless vehicles, they were in the minorit

I think this comment is slightly exaggerated. I didn’t see that many ads for AI companies and while I did see some driverless vehicles, they were in the minority and I only saw them on my second full day exploring the city. There are a large number of homeless people openly doing drugs, and there is some poop, but I find these descriptions to be generally inaccurate. Don’t get me wrong, the situation is bad, but based on descriptions like this I was expecting far far worse.

IKantRead 3y ago
That comment is just based on my experience going to SF a few weeks ago. - Every billboard on the way to the hotel from the airport was for AI (which not the case a few months ago) - Uber driver interrogated me all the way to the hotel on the value prop of my current project at work - Went to grab a burger and had to dodge 2 people screaming at me, walked passed a man crying because I believe a friend had just gotten hit by a car. - almost stepped in human fecies - On my last night, took a cruise back to my hotel (thanks to a friend). Honestly it was quite fun. Nothing in my comment was exaggerated, just edited a bit to make it more coherent. The reality was actually more dystopian. And I do mean that last line seriously, I had a blast!: > SF today is so aggressively dystopian that it's sort of hard not to enjoy the experience.
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hot_gril 3y ago
Nearly every billboard I've in SF, when I used to live near there 1-7 years ago, was tech. So not AI, but maybe "one app to rule them all" (I forget whose slogan that was).