the media runs with exactly the sort of story you’d expect it to run with
I haven’t closely followed it, but my impression is that media coverage has been less unfavorable than one might have predicted / than this suggests, tending to recognize the Zizians as a rejected weird fringe phenomenon and sympathetically quote rationalists saying so.
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I haven’t closely followed it, but my impression is that media coverage has been less unfavorable than one might have predicted / than this suggests, tending to recognize the Zizians as a rejected weird fringe phenomenon and sympathetically quote rationalists saying so.
Thanks for the pushback—added an edit acknowledging this.