I suspect it to be worth distinguishing cults from delusional ideologies. As far as I can tell, it is common for ideologies to have inelastic false poorly founded beliefs; the classical example is belief in the supernatural. I’m not sure what the exact line between cultishness and delusion is, but I suspect that it’s often useful to define cultishness as something like treating opposing ideologies as infohazards. While rationalists are probably guilty of this, the areas where they are guilty of it doesn’t seem to be p(doom) or LLMs, so it might not be informative to focus cultishness accusations on that.
I suspect it to be worth distinguishing cults from delusional ideologies. As far as I can tell, it is common for ideologies to have inelastic false poorly founded beliefs; the classical example is belief in the supernatural. I’m not sure what the exact line between cultishness and delusion is, but I suspect that it’s often useful to define cultishness as something like treating opposing ideologies as infohazards. While rationalists are probably guilty of this, the areas where they are guilty of it doesn’t seem to be p(doom) or LLMs, so it might not be informative to focus cultishness accusations on that.