Bay Area rationalists are unimodal, DC is bimodal, says EA community observer
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-20
AI community culture observation: in the Bay Area rationalist ideas are 'in the groundwater' — even people under 50% may know the culture — while DC shows a bimodal split between insiders and complete outsiders.
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