I usually avoid things like this because they're usually not this well written. Worth the time.
> “That’s so cheems mindset,” says the woman he’s talking to. Her nametag says ‘Astra’, although you don’t know if that’s her real name, her Internet handle, or her startup.
...and I knew I had to stop what I was doing and finish the read. The other two "house party" links [1] [2] were equally rich.1: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/every-bay-area-house-p...
2: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/another-bay-area-house...
> “I quit my job at Google a few months ago to work on effective altruism. I’m studying sn-risks.”
> “I can’t remember, which ones are sn-risks?”
> “Steppe nomads. Horse archers. The Eurasian hordes.”
> “I didn’t think they were still a problem.”