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Re:Police arrest apparent leader of cultlike 'Zizian' group ... by nl on Monday February 17, 2025 @10:33PM (#43085812)
They are apparently a "a radical offshoot of the rationalist community"[1].

I suspect that as with many off-shots they hate the original community.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vermont-border-agent-death-expo... is a better, longer form of this article

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_David_Maland

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Re:Police arrest apparent leader of cultlike 'Zizian' group ... by nl on Monday February 17, 2025 @10:46PM (#43085882)
"Ziz"'s old blog: https://web.archive.org/web/20230315071531/https://sinceriou...

It seem they were a fan of Eliezer Yudkowsky and maybe Nick Bostrom (although a bit unclear) but they hate MIRI

LessWrong has a summary of their involvement: https://www.lesswrong.com/w/j-lasota-ziz

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Re:Police arrest apparent leader of cultlike 'Zizian' group ... by justlikereddit on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @05:15AM (#43088012)
Yet another episode of "people who think Elizer Yudkowsky isn't a lunatic are as batshit insane as he is".

Calling themselves rationalists are more ironic than a concentration camp having a sign promising freedom to those who work.

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