"Now that we've defined initial objects in the category Set, let's talk about the real Initial Object: Jesus Christ." https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/963204979237388288 …
Yeah that was obnoxious. If one wanted to be charitable, one could say it was the fungus speaking. I don’t know or care about her one way or the other. General question of whether people can be treated successfully for early-stage cordiceps is interesting though.
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Getting people out of cults is an unsolved problem when they're marginal groups with limited resources. When the cult actually has hegemony and one's job is entwined with it...
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Good point. OTOH I suspect the motivations for joining and remaining in marginal cults, and the populations that do, are pretty different from the hegemonic case. Preference falsification breakdown dynamics may be exploitably distinct.
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