VAuroch comments on You're Calling *Who* A Cult Leader? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VAuroch 09 December 2013 10:02:49AM *  0 points [-]

(note: Hofstadter does not have a cult)

Douglas Hofstadter's research group is apparently quite cultish. It's close-knit, dominated by a single person, is not tolerant of disagreement, and has little intellectual interaction with the remainder of the field.

This doesn't make GEB less than excellent. It merely partially explains why they haven't made much progress since.