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Un­wit­ting cult leaders

Kaj_Sotala11 Feb 2021 11:10 UTC
120 points
9 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(kajsotala.fi)

My ten­ta­tive best guess on how EAs and Ra­tion­al­ists some­times turn crazy

habryka21 Jun 2023 4:11 UTC
204 points
112 comments8 min readLW link

Notes on Brain­wash­ing & ‘Cults’

gwern13 Sep 2013 20:49 UTC
80 points
107 comments16 min readLW link

How to talk ra­tio­nally about cults

Viliam8 Jan 2017 20:12 UTC
18 points
40 comments11 min readLW link

Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Dec 2007 3:04 UTC
132 points
41 comments3 min readLW link

Two Cult Koans

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Dec 2007 5:45 UTC
145 points
100 comments2 min readLW link

Cul­tish Countercultishness

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Dec 2007 0:53 UTC
110 points
32 comments9 min readLW link

Two hemi­spheres—I do not think it means what you think it means

Viliam9 Feb 2025 15:33 UTC
110 points
21 comments14 min readLW link

You’re Cal­ling *Who* A Cult Leader?

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Mar 2009 6:57 UTC
60 points
121 comments5 min readLW link

I was raised by de­vout Mor­mons, AMA [&|] Solic­it­ing Advice

ErioirE13 Mar 2024 16:52 UTC
32 points
41 comments2 min readLW link

NYT ar­ti­cle about the Zizi­ans in­clud­ing quotes from Eliezer, Anna, Ozy, Jes­sica, Zvi

Matrice Jacobine8 Jul 2025 1:42 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nytimes.com)

Why Are There So Many Ra­tion­al­ist Cults?

omark13 Aug 2025 6:37 UTC
32 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(asteriskmag.com)

Some thoughts on the cults LW had

Noosphere8926 Feb 2023 15:46 UTC
−4 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

The Cult Deficit: Anal­y­sis and Speculation

rogersbacon13 Jun 2021 5:33 UTC
18 points
11 comments13 min readLW link

Read The Se­quences As If They Were Writ­ten Today

Peter Berggren2 Jan 2025 2:51 UTC
65 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

A study on cults and non-cults—an­swer ques­tions about a group and get a cult score

spencerg19 Jun 2024 14:30 UTC
1 point
8 comments1 min readLW link
(www.guidedtrack.com)
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