I don’t think it’s reasonable to call yourself a LessWrong cultist if you don’t participate in LessWrong and your only contact with it is reading LessWrong writing and arguing for the truth of that writing outside of LessWrong.
If you are uncomfortable with LessWrong getting criticized, you will necessarily get very uncomfortable if you participate on LessWrong in a significant manner as LessWrong is constantly criticized on LessWrong.
To engage more directly with what you wrote, it’s typical that religious deconversion leaves the person with a God-sized hole in their belief system that they then try to fill with something God-sized. This dynamic made you fit the LW thought into that format.
It takes time to learn to think differently.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to call yourself a LessWrong cultist if you don’t participate in LessWrong and your only contact with it is reading LessWrong writing and arguing for the truth of that writing outside of LessWrong.
If you are uncomfortable with LessWrong getting criticized, you will necessarily get very uncomfortable if you participate on LessWrong in a significant manner as LessWrong is constantly criticized on LessWrong.
To engage more directly with what you wrote, it’s typical that religious deconversion leaves the person with a God-sized hole in their belief system that they then try to fill with something God-sized. This dynamic made you fit the LW thought into that format. It takes time to learn to think differently.