I get extremely suspicious of people when I discover that there's some guy whose work they're super into and have made the foundation of their personal philosophy. I do this even if the guy is someone whose work I like, and even if they're someone I like personally.
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(Theoretically I would also get extremely suspicious if the person whose work they were into was not a guy, but in practice the object of intellectual fixation usually seems to be a guy)
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I've been seeing this with David Deutsch a lot recently - a lot of people are super into him and whenever I find a new one I have a very strong "Oh gods not one of you again" reaction.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki
I agree with this re the Critical Rationalist community (with one exception who I hope knows I am subtweeting her) but am too polite to say so :) “How do I avoid starting a cult” is something I occasionally worry about but it doesn’t seem imminent yet
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Do you have any ideas why cultishness hasn’t popped up around you, David? I wonder if meta-rat’ism having no fixed frame helps. CR does have this IMO, but everyone tends to interpret it as having a practical ideology that is True and Follows from the Laws of Epistemology.
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Depends if by cultishness you mean ‘loud collective obsession’ or ‘authoritarian small group dynamics’. Re: 2, David’s rightly pointed out he doesn’t have any of the key components (http://meaningness.com couldn’t pull me away from my family if it tried).
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Replying to @utotranslucence @reasonisfun and
Re: 1, if twitter’s anything to go by, he may already have that somewhat...
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Well this is concerning…
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How else shall we carry your Holy Message to the World, oh Guru?
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Go Off Alone & Partake Joyously of a Hot Dog on a Friday http://www.principiadiscordia.com/book/11.php
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A young man came to Abba David and asked “Father, I have done my best to live by meaningness but find myself haunted by nihilistic thoughts.” Abba David considered the man and said, “Go Off Alone and Partake Joyously of a Hot Dog on a Friday”
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