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EA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism fault (x.com)
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[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 0 points 4 months ago

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

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Nobody:

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

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago
[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 4 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!”

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Fuck me...I mean, say what you want about the tenets of Effective Altruism, Dude. At least it's an ethos!

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