David Boree

Some people are going to do something fucked up, right?

So he calls for a massive like SWAT response basically, you know, compared to the actual danger these people present, which is right now nil.

The author of that wired piece spoke to the sheriff's deputy who responded initially, a guy named Parks, and this is that account.

Quote, in Parks' account, which he relayed to me in the fall of 2023 at a local Starbucks, the protesters were speaking in unison.

Just stuff I didn't really understand, but it was somewhat rehearsed, he said.

The group had printed flyers outlining their complaints against CIFAR and MIRI.

They alleged that MIRI had paid out blackmail using donor funds to quash sexual misconduct allegations and that CIFAR's leader discriminates against trans women.

Other allegations were more esoteric.

CIFAR does not appreciably develop novel rationality mental tech.

The path to avoiding extinction, they wrote, involved escaping containment by society through mental autonomy and interhemispheric game theory.

Some random sheriff's deputy is not going to understand what's going on here.

What the fuck are you talking about?

He and his men default to the thing that cops do when they get confused, which is they get violent, right?

Quote, he and Ricks ordered the protesters to get on the ground.

As they did, each one called out demanding a same gender pat down, like one might request at an airport.

All three were trans women, but Parks says he couldn't discern their genders because of the robes and masks.

Regardless, they were not going to get that luxury at that time, he told me.

It's like, well, we don't know if you're a boy or a girl, and we gotta handcuff you.

Parks' deputies subdued the three in prone positions, what Parks calls a high-risk style takedown, requiring more force than a normal handcuffing style.

So there's several articles I've read will refer to a discrepancy between how the Zizians and the cops describe these events.