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All you are saying here is "The title of the Twelve Virtues makes me feel bad." That is literally all you are saying, since you admit to not having read it.
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I'll tell you one thing. It got my attention. It got me interested in rationality. I've shown it to others; they all liked it or were indifferent. If you're going to say "culty" because of the title, you are both missing the (most important) point and failing to judge based on anything reasonable. And I don't particularly care if LW appeals to people who don't even try to be reasonable.
That's still an useful data-point. Do we want to scare away people with strong weirdness filters?
The answer to this may very well turn out to be yes.
What proportion of top people at SIAI love sf?
It's at least plausible that strong weirdness filters interfere with creativity.
On the other hand, weirdness is hard to define-- sf is a rather common sort of weirdness these days..
There is no reason to turn them off right away. The blog itself is weird enough. Maybe they will be acclimated, which would be good.