They say you can estimate the maturity of a group's culture by how easy it is to commit heresy. Less Wrong fans seem fairly mature by that metric, since they d

They say you can estimate the maturity of a group's culture by how easy it is to commit heresy. Less Wrong fans seem fairly mature by that metric, since they don't blacklist their apostates. The Yudkowskites actually seem one step ahead of academic culture if you're looking at groupthink indicators.