SF Bay Area
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SF Bay Area is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between August 01, 2021 and August 05, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Currently most available matches are in the SF Bay Area”; “s are in the SF Bay Area, so though in theory the service isn’t geographically limited”; “Or you could just do what everyone else does and go to the SF Bay Area instead”. It most often appears alongside ACX, Bloomberg, Abraham Davenport.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 5
- Issue count: 5
- First seen: August 01, 2021
- Last seen: August 05, 2025
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- ACX (2 shared issues)
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- Bloomberg (2 shared issues)
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- Abraham Davenport (1 shared issues)
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- AI 2027 (1 shared issues)
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- AI Futures blog (1 shared issues)
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- AI Policy Institute (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- Amish (1 shared issues)
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- Apolo Group (1 shared issues)
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- Arizona (1 shared issues)
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- Ashkenazi (1 shared issues)
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- Aurocard (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
3: The rationalist community is always experimenting with new institutions, and now we're trying an old one - official community matchmaker. My friend Elena has stepped up to the plate and is doing good work interviewing lots of people about their preferences and trying to set them up on dates with other people she's interviewed (poly vs. mono is optional, she has good matches available in both categories). She finds we need more of three particular demographics: men who want kids, women who don't necessarily want kids, and people who are open to dating a transgender partner. If you fall into one of these three groups, we're expanding the definition of "rationalist community" wide enough to cover you as an ACX reader, whether you identify as "rationalist" in any other way or not, and you’re eligible for Elena’s (free) service. Consider checking out her website ; she'll also be around to answer any questions in the comments here. Currently most available matches are in the SF Bay Area, so though in theory the service isn't geographically limited she'll probably be best positioned to help people who live near there. [EDIT: All Elena’s free appointments are now full, she is trying to figure out some kind of better business model, you can sign up for her wait list if you want]
Inline links: her website
Or you could just do what everyone else does and go to the SF Bay Area instead. But after seeing *our* levels of crime and anarchy maybe you’d rather take your chances with Auroville. Honestly the only part of this story which surprises me at all is that the Mother was a Sephardic Jew; usually it’s us Ashkenazi who end up in these kinds of situations.
47: An attempt to put Israel-Palestine in context by mapping it onto the SF Bay Area at the same scale (source, or click to enlarge):
Inline links: source
4: There’s also the Fellowship on AI For Human Reasoning, intended to “help talented researchers and builders start working on AI tools for coordination and epistemics”. Three months, “$25-50K stipend”, and a coworking space in the SF Bay Area (maybe also Constellation, I don’t know). Applications close June 9.
Inline links: Fellowship on AI For Human Reasoning
First, many of us worked in tech, and so ended out naturally gathering in the SF Bay Area without having to explicitly coordinate on it. We didn’t even have to take less-than-maximally lucrative jobs, because all the maximally-lucrative jobs for techies are in one place.