David Boree

Everybody's got a point here.

I just kind of wish you would all go away.

Yeah.

In November of 2019, CIFAR held their annual alumni reunion out in a chunk of the California redwoods down the street from the Bohemian Grove.

The road that passes is literally the Bohemian Highway.

This is like for an idea of how much money there is in mainstream rationalism.

They are having their big party next to Bohemian Grove.

Ziz had sent an open letter and like a letter to Yudkowsky a few days earlier, urging members of both organizations to quit in the interest of saving the world, basically saying these groups are so compromised they can no longer like add effectively to the things we're trying to do to our important work.

So you should all leave and kind of the subtext is and do what me and Gwyn are doing, you know.

Start a cult.

So on the day of this event, Ziz, Gwyn and two others in their circle drive up to this like this location out in the woods with a box truck, a shuttle bus and a Prius.

And they block the entrances and exits of the venue with their vehicles.

And they jump out wearing black robes, Guy Fawkes masks, and black gloves.

Now, this is not a violent protest.

There's no evidence that they intended violence.

They had walkie-talkies.

One person had a can of mace, but like, you know, people carry mace.

That's not suspicious.

And all they're trying to do is distribute flyers, lying out their case against CIFAR and MIRI.

But they have blocked the entrances and exits, and they talk like Sith wizards, right?