Yeah lol, it reminded me to this Onion post:

> Claim: My uncle says Mamdani will abolish the entire NYPD.

> Fact: Your uncle does say that.

The author outlines what they mean quite well. I think the point I would make is, when someone says "a ware house of twinks worshiping claude" you'd go "what in the living fuck are they doing that for?" not "oh that sounds cool"

I think that part of the article was really the only thing that resonated with me, as a SF resident.

Note that "sincerity" in this case doesn't necessarily mean positive things. There are lots of people here with a sincere belief that their startup will change the world, but for some (many?), either their mission is actually a pretty bad one, or the path they take in service of their mission ends up being -- at best -- borderline unethical.

That doesn't make them insincere, though.

From TFA:

> Someone once said that SF is a town of extremely high sincerity, and all of its modern and historical weirdness — the AI doomerism, the cults, the hippies, the drug use, the polycules — is downstream of people saying things and other people taking them extremely seriously.

This is a perfectly reasonable usage - perhaps not the Hallmark greeting card one but it's certainly valid.

> the difference between the east coast and the west coast.

Having lived in and visited places on both sides of the US I can safely say that there is no single "difference" between them and that treating both as culturally monolithic (or their constituent places as broadly similar) is a massive category error. Boston is not Miami is not Atlanta just as San Francisco is not San Diego no matter how many people confuse them because they both start with "San".