This is a bay area centric take on a non bay area centric take.
The typical bay area centric take has the following vibe:
1. I am among the group of most open minded people
2. I admit mistakes, but I don't change my view, that means I may make the same mistakes next time on a different concrete cases
3. Morally I am among the least corrupted
4. I work for the moderately morally questionable firms with nice paychecks, but my moral views are not tainted a bit
5. I never think on the other's perspectives
As exemplified in the following series of essays
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-foothills-of-bay-area-h...
This one was more self-aware than others. But we all know the demon voice of San Francisco sounds like a shoggoth trained on LessWrong.
Thank you so much for sharing these. I just laughed my ass off a bunch, and I’ve only yet read this one latest post in the series.
My favorite bit, I think (along with the running gag of the constant use cases/connections that somehow pop up for Epstart’s founder):
> “Would you like to hear more about how copying AI tics helps me keep conversations going?”
> “Uh, sure - wait! No!” You break off and turn around as fast as you can.
If the other entries in the series are anywhere near as good, I’ll have some reading to do now.