David Boree

She meets a person named Jasper Gwynn, who at that point identified as a trans woman who now goes by Gwynn Danielson and uses they them pronouns.

That's how I'm going to refer to them.

But for clarity's sake, I'm going to call them Gwyn or Danielson, even though they went by a different name at this time, because that's what they're called now.

Gwyn was a fan of Ziz's blog and had some complex rationalist theories of her own.

They came to believe that each person had multiple personalities stored inside their brain, a sort of like mutation of the left brain, right brain hypothesis.

And each of these sides of your brain was like a whole, like intact person, right?

Yeah.

Great.

Okay.

Yeah.

Cool.

No, you guys are going to be fucking with your heads real hard.

Great.

Yeah.

So Ziz falls in love with Gwen's ideas and she starts bringing them up in rationalist events, trying to brute force them into going mainstream among the community.

But people are like, this is a little weird even for us.

And she does not succeed in this.

And as a result, she and Danielson and a couple of other friends start like talking and theorizing together separately from the bulk of the community.

So now again, you've had this – they're starting to calve off from the broader subculture and they're starting to like really like dig ruts for themselves in a specific direction that's leading away from the rest of the rationalists.

Literally all that cult stuff, huh?