The Sith of Silicon Valley: Ziz LaSota’s AI cult left six dead – who is she?

​​Ziz LaSota’s early life was unremarkable: eldest of three, father a university instructor, homeschooled through lonely Alaskan winters. But teenage depression twisted her mind inward. Puberty felt like death. She wrote that she was “horrified at being overwritten by a new self.” Logic became her religion. LessWrong and the Rationalist forums her sacred texts.