Beware of too many Zs

Oh good, a new entry for the category “what weird shit is this now?”

A member of the cultlike group known as Zizians has been charged with murder in the shooting of her parents at their Pennsylvania home on her 30th birthday, and a prosecutor said Wednesday she wasn’t acting alone.

The two deaths are among six linked to the Zizians, a group of young, highly intelligent computer scientists who appear to share radical beliefs about veganism, animal rights, gender identity and artificial intelligence. Since 2022, members have been tied to the death of one of their own during an attack on a California landlord, the landlord’s subsequent killing, the Zajkos’ deaths in Pennsylvania, and a highway shootout in Vermont that left a border agent and another Zizian dead.

Highly intelligent stuff.

H/t Mostly Cloudy

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3 responses to “Beware of too many Zs”

  1. Athel Cornish-Bowden Avatar
    Athel Cornish-Bowden

    The Wikipedia article begins

    The Zizians are an informal group of rationalists

    As far as I can work out, rationalist is exactly what they are not.

    I was sorry to read that one of them was called Ophelia.

  2. Mostly Cloudy Avatar
    Mostly Cloudy

    A C-B :The Zizians grew out of one of the “rationalist” groups in California, the technophiliac ones associated with blogs like LessWrong and Astral Codex Ten. However, the Zizians adopted views far more extreme than the average “rationalist” group. A strong part of their motivations was their belief that AI posed an existential threat to humanity.

    The group has been described by the Associated Press as a “cult”.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/zizian-group-leader-arrest-1.7461231

  3. Bjarte Foshaug Avatar
    Bjarte Foshaug

    The entry on the Zizians from the data base of Rick Ross’ Cult Education Institute:

    https://culteducation.com/group/1382-zizians.html

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