Nice, but don’t you realize that HN is a cult too? 1) Paul Graham, the revered founder whose corpus of essays is widely read (and will surely make “real critic

Nice, but don’t you realize that HN is a cult too? 1) Paul Graham, the revered founder whose corpus of essays is widely read (and will surely make “real critical thinkers” feel unwelcome) 2) Dang, an enforcer who invisibly hides comments and chastising people for speaking in a way he dislikes 3) Trigger warnings (“this article has a paywall”) VC talk like HN’s is dangerous: it’s the road to a system that has seen more human rights abuses than almost any other https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_capitalism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_capitalism More seriously, LessWrong is not a cult by pretty much any measure and your comment doesn’t really provide any evidence to say otherwise