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Every Bay Area House Party

Published: May 4, 2022, 1:17 p.m.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/every-bay-area-house-party

You walk in. The wall decorations vaguely suggest psychedelia. The music is pounding, head-splitting, amelodious. Everyone is struggling to speak over it. Everyone assumes everyone else likes it.

You flee to the room furthest from the music source. Three or four guys are sitting in a circle, talking. Two girls are standing by a weird lamp, drinks in hand. You see Bob.

\u201cHi, Bob!\u201d

\u201cHey, good to see you again!\u201d

\u201cWhat\u2019s new?\u201d

\u201cMan, it\u2019s been a crazy few months. You hear I quit my job at Google and founded a fintech startup?\u201d

\u201cNo! What do you do?\u201d

\u201cWar insurance!\u201d

\u201cWar insurance?\u201d

\u201cYeah. We pay out if there\u2019s a war.\u201d

\u201cIsn\u2019t that massively correlated risk?\u201d

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