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Big names in AI and Silicon Valley tech announced yesterday that they're launching a boarding academy for 16 to 22 year olds. (Would you trust the people in this scene with keeping an eye on minors?) theacademysf.com

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

"We were letting actual 8th graders sneak into our wild drug and sex parties at our Silicon Valley AI group house" is the most eyebrow-raising quote among many from that New York Times piece, IMO. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...

Let's recall that apparently Sam Altman was in a Discord with a 13 year old in 2020 bsky.app/profile/fain...

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

I have a theory about how Eric Zhu was getting into AI group house parties at the age of 13, per the recent New York Times piece: he says he was in a Discord group chat with Sam Altman (and others) at that age. techcrunch.com/2024/07/22/1...

Yes, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed big tech boarding school that takes students as young as 16 is, in fact, advertising Tyler Cowen - he of the "if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances" creep article - as faculty.

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Lmao at the “Courses” offered. Except this one. I think this gets at the core of what they all want and the “regret” they’re retconning into their college experience.

i went to Simon's Rock (an early college) which at least wasn't run by massively rich creeps, and they had plenty problems with drugs/alcohol/bad behavior....this will be so much worse

my ex went to simon’s rock, and yeah he said it could be kinda wild but also it was an actual accredited school run by people who cared deeply about actual education including the humanities

Something tells me they aren’t interested in enrolling students whose parents can’t afford a modest 5 bedroom in Pacific Heights for their 16 year old to crash in after a long night of experimenting with various date rape drugs in the name of science and increasing birth rates.

Almost correct, these kids will not want to live in Pac Heights though, they will look to buy a Victorian in the Mission where they can evict some elderly tenants out of first.

My mother effectively kept me at home when I started college at 17 3/4 of age because I couldn’t sign a lease for on-campus or off-campus housing. If they aren’t providing housing , what about board? Where and how will the students get fed?

Why would you have a "boarding school" for 18-22 year olds? Isn't this what we would normally call an "unaccredited college"?

“Our Network” page features Luke Farritor, the homeschooled boy and Thiel Fellow who defied Marco Rubio to manually override PEPFAR and other USAID payments. He then helped dismantle Health & Human Services before founding an AI military company backed by Andreessen Horowitz. He’s the template.

There was a time when I'd go to that Marginal Rev blog and be like "at least conservative economists still have a perspective that I don't necessarily agree with but is debatable and researched." Then dudes found Hanania and BAP and their brains melted too (narrator: they were always like that)

There is totally a very very existent brand of well off liberals that are still very very into dipping into Cowen pods and reading Abundance that don't know they're just in BAP training school.