https://archive.ph/SPkAx
Summary: Meetups, especially AI meetups, are back in SF.
Love to see it, but we're also seeing the same thing happen here in DC with the meetups I run, so it's not especially newsworthy?
Summary: Meetups, especially AI meetups, are back in SF.
Love to see it, but we're also seeing the same thing happen here in DC with the meetups I run, so it's not especially newsworthy?
The flow of venture capital dollars into AI and machine learning companies in San Francisco hit new highs this year, with start-ups raising $18.5 billion in the first quarter — about 82 percent of U.S. investments in the segment
So yeah, not much.
Much easier to hide from this, one way or another. Some do it with platitudes about fish or hard work, others with demands that the super-rich pay more taxes, still more with karma and the mysterious workings of the divine.
That's all very human.
Suffering may exist. But when it is outside of one’s actual sphere of influence, and not caused by you - it is not really your business.
Turning it into an imperative is actually inverting the ownership involved, and trying to turn someone else’s pain into yours.
Which is the toxic part. As it disconnects the situation from who really does own it, and who really does have it within their sphere of influence.
Sure, but it is (to varying degrees between each person and situation) hard not to make this error when you're face-to-face with it.
> it is not really your business.
On a personal level, perhaps not; but hence the left half of politics, all the way from "lets not cut taxes" to actual literal Communism.
The history of aid to Africa causing economic disruption and further long term misery being a good example.
Have you been to SF? 95% of my trips around SF are far better than the average soul sucking drive around the rest of the country. Most of it has lovely architecture, beautiful parks, and great spots to stop into. For sure, there can be more extremes in the other direction, but imo they aren't that common and don't much bring down how much better the average is. Plus they're concentrated in tenderloin / civic center and most people will avoid that area to reduce ever encountering crazy stuff.
I don't care to attend an AI meetup, but I just googled "sf ai meetup" as a thought experiment. First result is 3rd and mission. A very tame block. I could get on the N Judah and wind up near there and not face any of this "horrifying human experience". I do that same trip with my children since they were babies. It's no big deal. I would question the sanity of anyone who is concerned about that trip.