Post #1554166

2026-04-23 03:41 UTC

Friend of Ziz and cofounder of the ‘rationalist fleet’ pops up out of the woodwork trying to clear their name lesswrong.com/…/re-introduction-of-a-rationalist-… Honestly, the bizarreness that immediately comes to mind is not the things I notice most. “I’m Gwen Danielson, a neuroscientist and bioengineer, who decided as a child that I would end Death (and bring people back if I could) and that I would become a dragon and help generally facilitate a fantastical transhumanist future.” “I dream of non-Euclidean geometries, of countless worlds visible and accessible in the daytime sky, of competent infrastructure, of soul forges continually working to bring back the dead… I dream of reaching through warps in the spacetime fabric to save the dying across time” “Signed, the dragon of creation Creatrei (cree-AH-trey) also known as Gwen Danielson or as Char and Astria (when referring to my hemis as distinct individuals)” The links to old plans to build RVs with local copies of archived internet to keep doing AI research when industrial civilization collapses by 2025 are interesting too. The reactions are fun. “This post is not actually doing a good job of making me trust you and think this conversation is safe to have[1], and I notice that as I am saying this that I am afraid that this will now somehow result in someone trying to murder me in my sleep”

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@TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 2026-04-23 04:12

Habryka’s all, “Dammit, why do you have to come here and remind everyone where the Zizians came from?”

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@TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 2026-04-23 05:30

The back-and-forth between Gwen and LessWrong commenters is getting spicy. This definitely deserves a top-level post on SneerClub.

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@fullsquare@awful.systems 2026-04-23 08:18

I’m Gwen Danielson, a neuroscientist and bioengineer, who decided as a child that I would end Death thiel jumpscare

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@Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 2026-04-23 09:31

Ah yup, that is definitely the type of person who’s deeply attracted to cults.

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@BioMan@awful.systems 2026-04-23 17:59

Uh oh rollingstone.com/…/gwen-danielson-zizians-intervi… Going on a media tour now

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@blakestacey@awful.systems 2026-04-24 00:58

Ziz has always had a tendency to express her ideas through metaphors in fiction that are familiar to her. We spoke at length about Contessa and Doctor Mother from Worm; the Wardens from World of Warcraft; Frisk, Sans, and especially Undyne from Undertale; Tassadar from Starcraft; Harry and Dumbledore from HPMOR; Iji. Does “read a second book” apply here, or is this a “read a first book” situation?

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@Soyweiser@awful.systems 2026-04-24 14:06

soul forges continually working to bring back the dead Even in death, duty does not end.

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@dgerard@awful.systems 2026-04-23 22:38

while it's technically plausible that Ziz was involved in a minor oopsy whoopsy fucky wucky deady weady or two or six, she's always been lovely to *me*, much of the time,

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