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Part Three: How The Zizians Went Full On Death Cult Might Work

2025/3/18
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Robert Evans and David Boree dive into the world of Ziz, exploring her interactions with the rationalist community and how her extreme ideas began to take shape. They touch upon Ziz's move to the Bay Area and her struggles to fit in with the rationalist subculture. The chapter sets the stage for the bizarre and dangerous path Ziz would embark on.
  • Ziz moved to the Bay Area to immerse herself in the rationalist community.
  • She attended a CIFAR conference that had exercises reminiscent of Synanon.
  • The community was obsessed with the ethics of murder, which Ziz found appealing.

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Robert tells David about Ziz's glorious plan to take to the sea and sever the right and left brains of her followers in order to make them psychopaths god that sentence was weird to write trust us the episode is weirder.

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