The leader of an alleged cult informed by the murderous hypothetical artificial superintelligence of “Roko’s Basilisk” once faked her death in the months before the first of several killings that have been linked to her followers. As The Guardian notes, Jack “Ziz” LaSota — the alleged leader of the “Zizians,” a militantly vegan group of computer scientists who have now been linked to six deaths in three states — was believed to be dead after her sister and friend claimed that she’d fallen from her sailboat in the San Francisco Bay. After a 30-hour search that involved the Coast Guard and multiple fire departments, LaSota’s “body” was never found. Though the nature of her alleged death-faking scheme is unclear, Ziz was nevertheless considered dead by her family, who published an obituary for her in her hometown newspaper in Alaska. In an interview with the Silicon Valley nonprofit news site Open Vallejo in January, Coast Guard official Hunter Schnabel explained that the branch doesn’t have the authority to declare a person’s death and “isn’t going to investigate” further — a convenient procedural situation that would make it easy for someone who “didn’t want to be found” to “disappear.” A few months after that purported boating accident, Ziz seemingly sprang back to life when she was arrested at the scene of a different disaster: the sword stabbing of then-80-year-old Curtis Lind, a man who owned the property where some of her friends (or followers, depending on how you see it) were living days before…The Woman Accused of Running a Murderous Cult Linked to Roko's Basilisk Faked Her Own Death Before "Coming Back to Life"