Map of Bay Area memespace 2026 charts e/acc, rationalists, AI safety and more
clarejtbirch · x · 2026-10-30
A sequel to Julia Galef's classic Bay Area idea map: "Map of Bay Area memespace, 2026" traces the intellectual lineage from 1960s counterculture, Burning Man and hacker culture through startup culture, and maps today's AI tribes — Frontier AI labs, e/acc, Rationalists, Effective Altruists, AI safety/x-risk, transhumanists, posthumanists, TPOT, plus the "new AI creative scene" (cyborgism, agent mystics/weird AI, AI art), with faded groups marked. A handy one-glance cheat sheet for Silicon Valley AI discourse.
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