paul-crowe
commented
1 year ago Example: Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult
Summary: "Every group of people with an unusual goal—good, bad, or silly—will trend toward the cult attractor unless they make a constant effort to resist it." How's EA fighting? "Cultishness is quantitative, not qualitative. The question is not, “Cultish, yes or no?” but, “How much cultishness and where?”"
Date: 12th Dec 2007
Status:
Lag to response:
Current canonical instance:
Prior status of critic:
Fundamental criticism:
Public responses:
- Cultish Countercultishness (30th Dec 2007)
- Advice on explaining EA to normies without it sounding like "a doomsday cult" (12th Jul 2021)
- EA uses culty practices (5th Jan 2022)
- Why people think EA is a cult (12th May 2022)
- The cultish and religious connotations of "retreats" (18th May 2022)
- EA isn't a cult, and here's how to prevent it becoming one (30th Jun 2022
- People think of EA as a religion (23rd Jul 2022)
- EA resembles cult (1st Oct 2022))
Example: EA might be a bad name, sounds smug
Summary: "We're the EFFECTIVE altruists, not like those other altruists who give money away randomly and hope for the best. Curtsey when we address you, lowly proles."
Date: 24th Mar 2021
Status:
Lag to response:
Current canonical instance:
Prior status of critic:
Fundamental criticism:
Public responses: