David Boree

Yeah, yeah.

Talk about info hazards.

Jesus.

Oh, man.

So I have to emphasize here, again, that I want to keep going back to the broader rationalist community because I felt like a risk of this is that I would just be talking about how crazy this one lady and her friends were.

And it's like, no, no, no.

Everything they're doing, even the stuff that is a split off and different and like more extreme than mainstream rationalism is directly related to shit going on in the mainstream rationalist community, which is deeply tied into big tech, which is deeply tied into like the Peter Thiel circle.

A lot of these folks are close to in and around the government right now, right?

So like that is...

Ziz is not nearly as much of an outlier as a lot of rationalists want people to think.

Yeah.

Anyway, at rationalist meetups, Ziz began pushing this whole vegan Sith thing hard.

And again, it meets with little success, but she and Gwyn gradually start to expand the circle of people around them.

Meanwhile, in her professional life, that Google interview process moves forward exponentially.

Ziz says that she passed every stage of the process, but that it kept getting dragged out, forcing her to ask her parents for more help.

In November, around the time her blog started to get a following, she says Google said she'd passed the committee and would be hired once she got picked for a team.

Now, I don't know what happens after this.

She says Google asked for proof of address, which she doesn't have.

She's just turned 26 and she's not on her parents' health insurance either.

She's been pages describing what is a very familiar nightmare scenario to me of like trying to get proof of address so you can get a job and like –