And finally a word on "cults" in general. I advise against using it, because you can get to describing groups as a problem without it, and you're lazily relying on associations that are likely not true of a given group. For a discussion on this I recommend (see next reply)
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@segyges.bsky.socialAny time you get more than a few people who are deeply concerned with AI doom together, it seems like their natural form of organization looks like a cult; rationalism as a whole is less of a cult than it is a cult factory. Some of these cults have gone very badly. One of them is the Zizians.
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Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?
There’s a lot to like about the Rationalist community, but they do have a certain tendency to spawn — shall we say — high demand groups. We sent a card-carrying Rat to investigate what’s really going ...
