[apsurd]

Your SF hate isn't a good look.

There are many things to be critical about but shoehorning an entire metro into the echo-chamber you're supposedly beyond yet can't help but orient your entire world view as the anti-SF-tech-bro all while running a startup and discussing AI on HN.

TLDR: SF is more than Paul Graham worship parties.

EDIT: Think I'm being misunderstood! author goes out of his way to blame shitty San Francisco.

> This is negative valence hype, not only is it not true, it’s mostly designed to make you feel bad about yourself and move to shitty San Francisco where everything really does suck like how these people claim.

[markasoftware]

the vast majority of the target audience of this blog post would only consider moving to SF because of the tech scene. This isn't a mountain biking or asian food blog.

[nylonstrung]

> shoehorning an entire metro into the echo-chamber you're supposedly beyond

The SF metro is possibly the worst in the entire world in terms of CoL vs QoL.

It has a higher proportion of unsheltered population living on the streets than almost any city outside of Africa except Manila and possibly Dhaka

[NetOpWibby]

False equivalency

[apsurd]

ooh I like your site: https://webb.page

false equating that author's AI hate is hating SF tech-bros? Oh I think I am being misunderstood, that makes me feel better about the insta-downvotes. Author states it plainly:

> This is negative valence hype, not only is it not true, it’s mostly designed to make you feel bad about yourself and move to shitty San Francisco where everything really does suck like how these people claim.

[NetOpWibby]

Thanks!

The author didn't "go out of his way to blame shitty SF." At least, that's not what I (and seemingly most other people) got from it.

He's speaking to the AGI nuts who are convinced humans are going the way of the dodo because of AI and that kind of hype only really works in SF (and SF-pilled areas).

[apsurd]

damn, you all hate SF that much?

[vatsachak]

I don't hate SF it's just overpriced.

Whenever I visit SFO it's really funny seeing all the advertisements from startups above a population struggling to find housing.

Won't it be better to pay someone 100k in Reno than 180k in SF? Most collaboration happens online these days anyways.

Honestly 60k in Barcelona is like 200k in SF when you look at housing and public services.

We need to punish bad city governance for being bad.

[mistrial9]

San Francisco has always been a crooked city

source: Barbary Coast USA