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One of them is Emma Borhanian, a former Google engineer, and Alex Lethem, a budding mathematician.

The flotilla became a sort of marooned aquatic salon, Wired quotes Ziz as emailing to a friend at the time, "...we've been somewhat isolated from the rationalist community for a while, and in the course developed a significant chunk of unique art of rationality and theories of psychology aimed at solving our problems."

I'm excited for this psychology you built on the boat.

Wired continues, as Lasoda articulated, their goals had moved beyond real estate into a more grandiose realm.

We are trying to build a cabal, she wrote.

The aim was to find abnormally intrinsically good people and turn them all into gervase sociopaths, creating a fundamentally type of group than I have heard of existing before.

Sociopathy, Lasoda wrote, would allow the group members to operate unpwned by the external world.

Yeah, that is, because you had said that before, right?

That they had been, that's sort of what they're looking to be.

Yeah, they're obsessed with this idea of, which is initially like kind of a joke about the office, but they're like, no, no, no.

It actually is really good to have this sociopath at the top who like moves and manipulates these like lesser like fools and whatnot and puts them into positions below them.

Like that's how we need to, what we need to be in order to gain control of the levels of power.

We have to make ourselves into Ricky Gervais sociopaths.

Yeah.

Great.

What a good ideology.

I love that they still love pop culture though, you know?

They're obsessed with it.

And again, this is, you can't talk about this kind of shit if you're regularly having conversations with people outside of your bubble.

Exactly, it's the thing, yeah.