[Viliam1234]

Funny how the comment making a factual correction gets downvoted.

For me, that is the crucial information in the article: Yes, multiple people have succeeded to create a cult within the rationality community, but it always involved isolating their victims from the rest of the rationality community. (Now that we see the pattern, could it possibly help us defend against this?)

[throwanem]

If it took you this long to see a pattern that anyone with any experience at all can trivially recognize, why should anyone trust you to defend against anything? You are plainly incompetent.

[Viliam1234]

Yes, I am definitely plainly incompetent for not noticing a trivially recognizable pattern...

> This article attempts to establish disjoint categories "good rationalist" and "cultist."

...that you have denied in another comment in the same thread. I guess that makes two of us plainly incompetent.

[throwanem]

I can't even tell what you mean to try to criticize here. Are you saying that because one may tell what the article tried to do and failed, it didn't fail? I can try to answer your point here, but you need to put in the effort of making it make sense, first.