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The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians
A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.
The aim was “to find abnormally intrinsically good people and turn them all into Gervais-sociopaths, creating a fundamentally different kind of group than I have heard of existing before.” (The Gervais principle, articulated by the writer Venkatesh Rao—based on an extensive but light-hearted analysis of The Office —is a theory that at the top of any organization are “sociopaths” who know how to acquire and manipulate power. “Structuring one's decision-making strategies in accordance with mathematics and decision theory would result in outcomes that grant higher expected utility than using no strategies.” She earned a masters degree in bioinformatics from Temple University, and after a brief internship at NASA, took a job at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Gibson testified that he “held it in Vermont” and “inspected it.” Two sources also confirmed to me that the troopers had seen a shooting range on the property, and that the Pennsylvania State Police had discovered that Zajko and the others had turned their phones off in the hours leading up to the murder, making it difficult to track their whereabouts.
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