What the hell? I just learned about the Zizian death cult from Rebecca Watson. Why? What did I do to deserve this knowledge?
Short version: Zizians are trans vegan tech nerds who splintered away from the Less Wrong rationalist cult. Now they’re murdering people, and especially each other, to further some weird vision of a beautiful rational future where no one kills animals, putting Effective Altruism to work. I trace the problem not to veganism or trans or tech nerdiness, but to getting tangled up in the twisted arcane “philosophies” that are flourishing in Silicon Valley…and also generally to any obsessive extremism.
You’ll have to let Rebecca explain it all to you, because I don’t want to think about them anymore.