San Francisco Purity Test

The official Purity Test checklist for the techies of San Francisco. Click on every item you have done.

Caution: This is not a bucket-list. Completion of all items on this test will make you a loser.

1. Applied to a job at OpenAI
2. Been asked 'what's your AGI timeline'
3. Told someone your AGI timeline
4. Switched from ChatGPT to Claude
5. Switched back from Claude to ChatGPT
6. Unironically called a startup 'ngmi'
7. Taken a meeting at the blue bottle in 2 South Park
8. Taken a job interview/pitch meeting at Cafe Reveille
9. Worked late at Delahs coffee
10. Identified as e/acc
11. Attended an e/acc gathering
12. Attended OpenAI Dev day
13. Attended a Cafe Compute
14. Attended a hackathon
15. Attended burning man
16. Attended burning man 3+ times
17. Listened to a Latent Space podcast episode
18. Listened to an All In podcast episode
19. Attended a party at Mission Control
20. Attended a party at AGI house
21. Co-worked from Newton or Solaris
22. Co-worked from SF Commons
23. Read the 'Attention is all you need' paper
24. Gave up on learning and downloaded Cursor
25. Considered alternate careers when Devin was released
26. Got rejected by YC but pretended you didn't apply
27. Got accepted into YC
28. Lived in a hacker house (>50% founders)
29. Lived with 3+ roommates to have lower rent
30. Lived with a co-founder or coworker
31. Lived in a situation where there were more people than bedrooms
32. Slept on a mattress without a bed frame
33. Met Andrej Karpathy, Sam Altman, or Fei-Fei Li
34. Subscribed to Blueprint meals
35. Subscribed to Blueprint meals and didn't lose weight
36. Ate Souvla more than 3 times in one week
37. Paid for a Touchstone (Mission Cliffs / Dogpatch Boulders) membership
38. Made a LinkedIn connection from climbing
39. Attempted any of the following: 75 Hard, cold plunges, saunas
40. Bought an 8 Sleep
41. Cut out seed oils
42. Stripped down for Archimedes Banya
43. Worn an apple watch or whoop
44. Worn more than 1 fitness wearable simultaneously
45. Taken a Waymo
46. Drank too much at Monroes
47. Ordered an espresso martini at Balboas
48. Drank Huel, Soylent, or any other liquid meal-replacement
49. Attended a VC-sponsored dinner
50. Asked someone out at a tech event
51. Got asked out at a tech event
52. Gone on a date with someone you met at a tech event
53. Written a date me doc
54. Driven by an SF Compute billboard
55. Gone skiing in Tahoe
56. Started or attempted to start an AI startup
57. Pivoted your non-AI startup into an AI-first startup
58. Built a RAG pipeline
59. Used LlamaIndex, Langchain, or CrewAI
60. Started using Perplexity as your primary search engine
61. Attempted to jailbreak ChatGPT, Claude, or any popular LLM
62. Watched polymarket during the election
63. Gotten blocked by Lex Fridman
64. Read 'The Chip War' by Chris Miller
65. Read 'Atomic Habits' by James Clear
66. Read 'Zero to One' by Peter Thiel
67. Watched or taken a Deep Learning course
68. Checked Hackernews everyday
69. Attended NeurIPS
70. Attended NeurIPS 3+ times
71. Attended ICML
72. Attended ICLR
73. Traveled for an AI conference and basically skipped the conference
74. Explored the current quality of AI girlfriends/boyfriends
75. Told someone you're not going to date because AGI is coming
76. Taken adderall or other stimulants to boost productivity
77. Taken psychedelics in ggp/Dolores
78. Actively calculated the gender ratio at an event
79. Actively complained about the gender ratio at an event
80. Invested less than 5k into a company and called yourself an angel investor
81. Bought bitcoin at the top
82. Bought a memecoin
83. Said 'I'm gonna to move to NYC' because you can't pull in SF
84. Had a friend say 'I'm gonna to move to NYC' because they can't pull in SF
85. Gone on a hinge date with a non-tech person and realized how out of touch you are
86. Tweeted 'OpenAI is nothing without its people'
87. Put 'building something new' in your twitter bio
88. Asked someone out on Twitter
89. Hosted a Twitter Spaces to talk about AI trends
90. Followed Sam Altman on Twitter
91. Followed Andrej Karpathy on Twitter
92. Followed Guillermo Rauch on Twitter
93. Used V0 to write your front end
94. Met a VC at Equinox
95. Switched your email to Superhuman
96. Switched to Arc browser
97. Tried airchat and churned
98. Tried bluesky and churned
99. 50+ parties on partiful
100. 100+ parties on partiful

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