EA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism fault

https://awful.systems/post/1743297

EA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism fault - awful.systems

Do you really think “cult” is a useful category/descriptor here?

My view: things identified as “cults” have a bunch of good traits. EA should, where possible, adopt the good traits and reject the bad ones, and ignore whether they’re associated with the label “cult” or not.

Yes, this is real

Nobody: EA: Scientology has some good traits, we should copy them.
“Look, all I’m saying is that Scientology managed to scale massively, both in members and funding! There’s obviously something there that we can learn from!”
Fuck me…I mean, say what you want about the tenets of Effective Altruism, Dude. At least it’s an ethos!"