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No, Guru Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote an essay about how people asking "This isn’t a cult, is it?" bugs him, so it's fine actually. https://www.readthesequences.com/

• NoGravitas 1y ago
  Hank Hill: Are y'all with the cult? Cult member: It's not a cult! It's an organization that promotes love and.. Hank Hill: This is it.
  • throwaway314155 1y ago
    Does this quote make more sense in context? I don't watch the show.
    • AntiDyatlov 1y ago
      It makes perfect sense as a comment, seeing the clip from the show doesn't add anything.
      • throwaway314155 1y ago
        I think i'm seeing it now. "This is it" implies Hank is actually looking for the cult in question, something that I guess seems odd to me without knowing the plot of the episode. Thanks for clarifying though! Oh wait, you didn't.
• dcminter 1y ago
  Extreme eagerness to disavow accusations of cultishness ... doth the lady protest too much perhaps? My hobby is occasionally compared to a cult. The typical reaction of an adherent to this accusation is generally "Heh, yeah, totally a cult." Edit: Oh, but you call him "Guru" ... so on reflection you were probably (?) making the same point... (whoosh, sorry).
  • FeepingCreature 1y ago
    > Extreme eagerness to disavow accusations of cultishness ... doth the lady protest too much perhaps? You don't understand how anxious the rationalist community was around that time. We're not talking self-assured confident people here. These articles were written primarily to calm down people who were panickedly asking "we're not a cult, are we" approximately every five minutes.