I think the biggest thing is a strong, high-stakes but still quite ambiguous status-hierarchy in the Bay Area.
I think there are lots of contributors to this, but I definitely feel a very huge sense of needing to adopt certain views, to display “good judgement”, and to conform to a bunch of epistemic and moral positions in order to operate in the space. This is particularly harsh since the fall of FTX with funding being less abundant and a lot of projects being more in-peril and the stakes of being perceived as reasonable and competent by a very messy and in-substantial parts social process are even higher.
I think the biggest thing is a strong, high-stakes but still quite ambiguous status-hierarchy in the Bay Area.
I think there are lots of contributors to this, but I definitely feel a very huge sense of needing to adopt certain views, to display “good judgement”, and to conform to a bunch of epistemic and moral positions in order to operate in the space. This is particularly harsh since the fall of FTX with funding being less abundant and a lot of projects being more in-peril and the stakes of being perceived as reasonable and competent by a very messy and in-substantial parts social process are even higher.