thabis.bsky.social
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Everyone's parsing the Zizians as AI doomers, but they're really much weirder than that - they were *adjacent to* the AI doomers but really cooked their brains on radical veganism and acausal decision theory
Only just learning about this now -- I guess for a while people have predicted that the AI doomer rationalist crowd would go violent, so its not surprising in some sense. Still though, odd times!

www.theguardian.com/global/ng-in...
They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed
How a group of Silicon Valley math prodigies, AI researchers and internet burnouts descended into an alleged violent cult
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Chemistry is actually very right wing. True re the rest tho.
December 11, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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Look. Look. It's not fascist, ok? It's just an anime celebrating the romantic self assertion of a Germanic people who must struggle against the enemy within as well as external monstrous subhumans, where the only hope for salvation is in disciplined militarism overcoming treacherous decadent elites.
November 25, 2024 at 6:54 AM
December 16, 2023 at 11:10 PM