ciphergoth comments on Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great - Less Wrong

140 Post author: Yvain 09 April 2009 02:44AM

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Comment author: pjeby 10 April 2009 02:58:10AM 2 points [-]

And why should you be afraid of downmodding?

I'm not. I'm simply attempting to respect the wishes of others regarding what should or should not be posted here.

Please post the link

Googling "Core Transformation" and "Gateway of Desire" (as phrases in quotes) will get you the links. Don't be confused by something else called "Quantum Touch - Core Transformation"; it's something unrelated (thank goodness).

Comment author: ciphergoth 10 April 2009 09:32:58AM *  2 points [-]

http://coretransformation.org/ appears to be the main website. This Google search finds related materials. All I could find on Wikipedia was this article on Steve Andreas.

Comment author: gjm 10 April 2009 07:58:45PM 8 points [-]

The fact that everything I can find on the web carefully avoids giving details and instead takes the form "We have these fantastic techniques that can solve most of your problems; sign up for our seminars and we'll teach them to you" is ... not promising.

Promising the world, giving few details, and insisting on being paid before saying anything more, seems to me to be strongly correlated with dishonesty and cultishness. Since pjeby seems like a valuable member of this community, I hope this case happens to be different; but I'd like to see some evidence.