She also organized a rather poorly received protest of that group which has gained her some notoriety within the community.
This deserves some clarification. Here’s what happened. Ziz and some friends went to the CFAR alumni reunion in 2019, before it started. They put on their Sith robes, and chained their vehicle across the entrance road to block it. The previous users of the venue, a class of fifth graders, were still there. Venue staff called the police. The police interpreted it as a school shooting situation, and decided they needed to search the venue for bombs. And so a hundred-ish people, including me, while we were in the middle of driving to the alumni reunion, got an email saying: Don’t come. There is a police helicopter and they are searching the area for bombs.
That is the first impression we all got of Ziz’s protest. I saw a copy of the pamphlet they had intended to hand out, some time later. It wasn’t as bad as that, but it was still nonsense.
A bunch of parts of civilization have nice barriers around them, and if you step outside of them you’re at sea in a storm with no idea what’s coming next. They tried to be disruptive+scary by chaining their car to an entrance way, and then suddenly there were kids involved and police with guns and helicopters.
Step outside of the barriers at your own peril. I’m not saying that the barriers are just, but your life is more stable and easier-to-predict when you stay inside of them. And don’t go outside of them if you’re incompetent.
This deserves some clarification. Here’s what happened. Ziz and some friends went to the CFAR alumni reunion in 2019, before it started. They put on their Sith robes, and chained their vehicle across the entrance road to block it. The previous users of the venue, a class of fifth graders, were still there. Venue staff called the police. The police interpreted it as a school shooting situation, and decided they needed to search the venue for bombs. And so a hundred-ish people, including me, while we were in the middle of driving to the alumni reunion, got an email saying: Don’t come. There is a police helicopter and they are searching the area for bombs.
That is the first impression we all got of Ziz’s protest. I saw a copy of the pamphlet they had intended to hand out, some time later. It wasn’t as bad as that, but it was still nonsense.
A bunch of parts of civilization have nice barriers around them, and if you step outside of them you’re at sea in a storm with no idea what’s coming next. They tried to be disruptive+scary by chaining their car to an entrance way, and then suddenly there were kids involved and police with guns and helicopters.
Step outside of the barriers at your own peril. I’m not saying that the barriers are just, but your life is more stable and easier-to-predict when you stay inside of them. And don’t go outside of them if you’re incompetent.
If someone wanted to aquire a bad reputation, I’m not sure what the person could do that would be more effective at getting a bad reputation.
Given that as described Ziz seems to act according to game theoretic ideas, how plausible is that she wanted to achieve such an effect?