David Boree

And this post lays out a lot of what I've described in these episodes, but there's still no public awareness of the Zizians.

Everything happening here is so weird.

The circumstances around the murderers are so murky that like most law enforcement kind of shrugs it off.

And there's not like a public.

These people are so fringe.

It's very difficult to even talk about them.

How do you qualify that on the nightly news?

Yes, exactly.

This is all going to change.

In February of 2024, Jamie Zashko purchases three handguns, I think, from a Vermont gun store.

A few months later, in May of 2024, a 20-year-old woman named Teresa Youngblood disappears from her home in Seattle.

Youngblood is one of the scattered community of people who still obsessively followed and interacted with Ziz and her inner circle's teachings.

Her parents feared that she was in a controlling relationship with someone.

And months after disappearing, she applies for a marriage license with another rationalist who's obsessed with Ziz named Maximilian Snyder.

Now, like most Zizians, Snyder has a very impressive academic record.

He was a national merit scholar who attended Oxford University.

Then he starts posting on Less Wrong, like all the others.

He is initially a fan of Yudkowsky, but at some point he gets convinced that Ziz's vegan Sith radicalism is the true path.

In the summer of 2023, just months earlier, he won $11,000 from an AI alignment contest, and he won that award under his legal name, but he also goes by Adir.

It's kind of unclear to me.