LessWrong is the outer school. It exists as a magnet to attract those who may be capable of real growth in the Way. As is always the way in such things, it also attracts many others, people who imagine themselves to be capable of learning but who in reality desire only the outward trappings of rationalism, a new vocabulary to express the same wrong ways of thinking, a tribal sign used to flatter themselves at being above the masses outside. The more that LessWrong draws the former while repelling the latter, the more it can fulfil its real function, which is to find candidates who may be capable of membership in the inner school.

The inner school is jocularly alluded to as the Bayesian Conspiracy, in order to give the impression that it does not exist. Some have been members of the inner school for years before discovering that fact, while others falsely imagine themselves to be on the inside while the real inner circle knows that they will never enter within its invisible walls.

The inner school is run by an inner circle, the inner inner school, the Conspiracy beyond the Conspiracy, whose existence is known to none but its own members.

Well, it could be true.

(I'm just applying a standard template for the organisation of secret societies. I don't actually have a hot line to the One.