Bay Area House Party

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Bay Area House Party is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 08, 2023 and April 04, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “the claim in the recent Bay Area House Party post”; “if you invest in a blockchain product based on a Bay Area House Party post”; “In a Bay Area House Party post, I discussed the legality of bribing would-be politicians”. It most often appears alongside 2023 Prediction Contest, @dropbella, Aaron Peskin.

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  • Category: Publications
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: January 08, 2023
  • Last seen: April 04, 2024

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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.

January 08, 2023 · Original source
4: Comment of the week: Lars Doucet tries to defend the claim in the recent Bay Area House Party post that the moneychangers in the Temple were a housing problem (see also David Manheim and Robert Jones’ replies, and the threads underneath them). Also, Adam Strandberg corrects me: there are at least three immortal mammals, although the third one is also a Tasmanian Devil.
6: Also, many, many of you commented that Bob and Ramchandra were just “reinventing the wheel” and antistocks were the same as some existing financial product, although none of you could agree on which existing product it was. See the cases for bucket shops, call options, equity swaps / total return swaps, dividend derivatives, and (inevitably) prediction markets. Also, several people chimed in to say they were working on something similar on the blockchain, including Tracer and Synthetix. I hope I don’t need to add the disclaimer that if you invest in a blockchain product based on a Bay Area House Party post, then you will lose all your money faster than anyone has ever lost all of their money before in all of history.
April 04, 2024 · Original source
9: In a Bay Area House Party post, I discussed the legality of bribing would-be politicians not to run. Turns out someone tried this (with a $500K bribe, no less!) and it’s illegal and punishable by up to three years in prison.