ChristianKl comments on New study on choice blindness in moral positions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 22 September 2012 06:13:04PM *  1 point [-]

Is you start a cult you don't tell people that you start a cult. You tell them: Look there this nice meetup. All the people in that meetup are cool. The people in that group think differently than the rest of the world. They are better. Then there are those retreats where people spents a lot of time together and become even better and more different than the average person on the street.

Do you? Really? That works? When creating an actual literal cult? This is counter-intuitive.

Comment author: ChristianKl 24 September 2012 09:54:01PM 0 points [-]

What's an actual literal cult?

When I went to the Quantified Self conference in Amsterdam last year, I heard the allegation that Quantified Self is a cult after I explained it to someone who lived at the place I stayed for the weekend. I also had to defend against the cult allegation when explain the Quantified Self community to journalists. Which groups are cults depends a lot of the person who's making the judgement.

There are however also groups where we can agree that they are cults. I would say that the principle applies to an organisation like the Church of Scientology.

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