Naw, these are just the thoughts I had when I learned about the Zizian cult and wanted to get them out there. I think it belongs in this thread 🤷♀️
Oh actually also I thought about how, in the web serial Worm, there’s an immortal angel-machine called Ziz that simulates the future and past in her mind and uses that to kill and torture people and destroy cities and drive people insane and shit. Might be a coincidence??
i think you nailed it with the Worm connection, i searched it and this reddit poster who says they know ziz chose the name from Worm via “indirect personal communication” (whatever that means)
Didn’t even know about the lesswrong connection but it makes perfect sense, since that’s where I found out about Worm (after reading big yud’s Harry Potter fic) and spent a decade hyperfrocused on “rationalist” amateur fiction and… so much fanfiction.
oh shit im sorry i didn’t realize the ziz thing had a rationalist connection, i just saw the other post about the basilisk and thought that was what it was about
Naw, these are just the thoughts I had when I learned about the Zizian cult and wanted to get them out there. I think it belongs in this thread 🤷♀️
Oh actually also I thought about how, in the web serial Worm, there’s an immortal angel-machine called Ziz that simulates the future and past in her mind and uses that to kill and torture people and destroy cities and drive people insane and shit. Might be a coincidence??
i think you nailed it with the Worm connection, i searched it and this reddit poster who says they know ziz chose the name from Worm via “indirect personal communication” (whatever that means)
https://redlib.nohost.network/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1icege1/associates_of_exlesswronger_ziz_arrested_for/m9yyhw8/
Woah holy shit a real life zizbomb 👀
Didn’t even know about the lesswrong connection but it makes perfect sense, since that’s where I found out about Worm (after reading big yud’s Harry Potter fic) and spent a decade hyperfrocused on “rationalist” amateur fiction and… so much fanfiction.
oh shit im sorry i didn’t realize the ziz thing had a rationalist connection, i just saw the other post about the basilisk and thought that was what it was about
sorry for pulling a redditor on you comrade
oh my fucking god there’s killings in the real world connected to Parahumans and bad Harry Potter fanfiction
Vriska-kinnie Charles Manson