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David Boree

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Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Ziz writes, I did not trust most humans in difference to build a net positive cosmos, even in the absence of a technological convenience to prey on animals. So like I'm the only one who has the mental capability to actually create the net positive cosmos that needs to come into being. All of her discussion is talking in terms of I'm saving the universe, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Ziz writes, I did not trust most humans in difference to build a net positive cosmos, even in the absence of a technological convenience to prey on animals. So like I'm the only one who has the mental capability to actually create the net positive cosmos that needs to come into being. All of her discussion is talking in terms of I'm saving the universe, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Ziz writes, I did not trust most humans in difference to build a net positive cosmos, even in the absence of a technological convenience to prey on animals. So like I'm the only one who has the mental capability to actually create the net positive cosmos that needs to come into being. All of her discussion is talking in terms of I'm saving the universe, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

And a lot of that does come out of the way many of these people talk on the internet about the stakes of AI and just like the importance of rationality. Again, this is something Scientology does. L. Ron Hubbard always couched getting people on Dianetics in terms of we are going to save the world and end war, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

And a lot of that does come out of the way many of these people talk on the internet about the stakes of AI and just like the importance of rationality. Again, this is something Scientology does. L. Ron Hubbard always couched getting people on Dianetics in terms of we are going to save the world and end war, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

And a lot of that does come out of the way many of these people talk on the internet about the stakes of AI and just like the importance of rationality. Again, this is something Scientology does. L. Ron Hubbard always couched getting people on Dianetics in terms of we are going to save the world and end war, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

It's very normal for cult stuff. She starts reading around this time when she's in college, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. This helps to solidify her feelings of her own centrality as a hero figure.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

It's very normal for cult stuff. She starts reading around this time when she's in college, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. This helps to solidify her feelings of her own centrality as a hero figure.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

It's very normal for cult stuff. She starts reading around this time when she's in college, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. This helps to solidify her feelings of her own centrality as a hero figure.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

In a blog post where she lays out her intellectual journey, she quotes a line from that fanfic of Yudkowsky's that is – it's essentially about what Yudkowsky calls the hero contract, right? It's essentially about – This concept called the hero contract, right? And there's this – this is a psychological concept among academics, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

In a blog post where she lays out her intellectual journey, she quotes a line from that fanfic of Yudkowsky's that is – it's essentially about what Yudkowsky calls the hero contract, right? It's essentially about – This concept called the hero contract, right? And there's this – this is a psychological concept among academics, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

In a blog post where she lays out her intellectual journey, she quotes a line from that fanfic of Yudkowsky's that is – it's essentially about what Yudkowsky calls the hero contract, right? It's essentially about – This concept called the hero contract, right? And there's this – this is a psychological concept among academics, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

And it's about like – it's about analyzing how we as a – how we should look at the people who societies declare heroes and the communities that declare them heroes and see them as in a dialogue, right? As in when you're in a country decides this guy's a hero, he is through his actions kind of conversing to them and they are kind of telling him what they expect from him.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

And it's about like – it's about analyzing how we as a – how we should look at the people who societies declare heroes and the communities that declare them heroes and see them as in a dialogue, right? As in when you're in a country decides this guy's a hero, he is through his actions kind of conversing to them and they are kind of telling him what they expect from him.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

And it's about like – it's about analyzing how we as a – how we should look at the people who societies declare heroes and the communities that declare them heroes and see them as in a dialogue, right? As in when you're in a country decides this guy's a hero, he is through his actions kind of conversing to them and they are kind of telling him what they expect from him.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

But Yudkowsky wrestles with this concept and he comes to some very weird conclusions about it in one of the worst articles that I've ever read. He frames it as hero licensing to refer to the fact that People get angry at you if you're trying to do something and they don't think you have a hero license to do it.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

But Yudkowsky wrestles with this concept and he comes to some very weird conclusions about it in one of the worst articles that I've ever read. He frames it as hero licensing to refer to the fact that People get angry at you if you're trying to do something and they don't think you have a hero license to do it.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

But Yudkowsky wrestles with this concept and he comes to some very weird conclusions about it in one of the worst articles that I've ever read. He frames it as hero licensing to refer to the fact that People get angry at you if you're trying to do something and they don't think you have a hero license to do it.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

In other words, if you're trying to do something that they don't think you're qualified to do, he'll describe that as them not thinking you have a hero license. He writes this annoying article that's like a conversation between him and a person who's supposed to embody the community of people who don't think he should write Harry Potter fan fiction. Yeah. It's all very silly.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

In other words, if you're trying to do something that they don't think you're qualified to do, he'll describe that as them not thinking you have a hero license. He writes this annoying article that's like a conversation between him and a person who's supposed to embody the community of people who don't think he should write Harry Potter fan fiction. Yeah. It's all very silly.