Hackers NewsSF Purity Test adminJanuary 1, 202503 mins 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 Calculate My Score Ask an AI Assistant Post navigation Previous: Lake Superior State University Unveils 2025 Banished Words ListNext: In Search of Types (2014) [pdf] Leave a ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment.
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