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EA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism fault (x.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Nobody:

EA: Scientology has some good traits, we should copy them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lukeprog on LessWrong: Scientology has some good traits, I'm gonna talk at length about them but I'm not saying to copy them you understand

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

“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!”

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

It took me a few comments to realize that we were taking about Effective Altruists and not Electronic Arts. I read EA was becoming a cult and yelling at wokeism for all its troubles, ya, that sounds about right.