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"Boot camp" may be a rather unfortunate metaphor for SIAI to have used. From Wikipedia: "Recruit training is the initial indoctrination and instruction given to new military personnel ... The process of transforming civilians into soldiers, sailors, coast guardsmen, Marines or airmen has been described by military historian Gwynne Dyer as a form of conditioning in which inductees are encouraged to partially submerge their individuality for the good of their unit."
"______ Boot Camp" seems to be a reasonably common construction, and I've always understood it to refer simply to intensive training in some specialized topic, without being especially evocative of the more sinister aspects of its military namesake.
(Though if accepting the full metaphor means we're taking it as a given that militaries are cults (indeed prototypical of cults), I'll take it!)