Rationalist community (LessWrong / MIRI)
Rationalist community around Eliezer Yudkowsky's LessWrong (2009+) and the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Documented sub-community concerns including the 2022–2025 Ziz cult-of-personality murders.
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0 — Rationalist community around LessWrong and MIRI; documented sub-community concerns including the 2023 Ziz cult-of-personality murders.
In context
The mainstream Rationalist community is a substantial intellectual community focused on epistemics and AI safety. Documented high-control sub-currents include Leverage Research (Geoff Anders), various 'Berkeley CFAR'-adjacent sub-circles, and most notoriously Ziz (Jack LaSota), whose followers committed multiple murders 2022–2025.
Legal cases & controversies
- 2022–2025 Ziz murder investigations
Timeline
- 2009LessWrong founded by Yudkowsky
- 2011Leverage Research founded
- 2022–2025Ziz cult-related murders documented
Sources
- Various press coverage including Bay Area News Group on Ziz murders
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