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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I recall Eliezer on one occasion noting that "if you tell your followers not to form a cult, they will go around saying 'We must not form a cult, Great Leader Mundo said so'."
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Cults are naturally emergent phenomena… some are deliberately produced by leaders, but many/most are produced by followers :(
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paging @warmbott: I couldn’t think of any good examples for the bottom-up cults — tee hee — but this sort of thing might count?
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Replying to @misen__ @Meaningness and
it does. it's so disturbing. the only way i can think of avoiding this is by increasing signaling costs but then eventually even that would stop becoming a barrier. thanks for the tag!
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