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I think an example about a failed dead startup is most informative about startups in general.
edit: also, on the reading list, what I expect is for my interpretation of it to be quite massively different from yours. I'd be better served by picking a reputable book about cults at random, anyway (cherry picking vs unfiltered data).
edit2: as for adding value, I'm not sure value adding cults are nearly of as much of impact-weighted interest as cults which end up in a Jonestown. Furthermore, sunk cost fallacy - like failure mode seems massively relevant to retention in cults.
What's that? Surely if a prophecy were a useful filtering mechanism as you say, then dying is a problem. A cult which fails cannot serve anyone's purpose at all...
Fair enough, but shouldn't you then retract your previous claims? I mean, what with it being based on cherry picked evidence and all?
You should probably know that I consider it seriously questionable whether sunk costs affect individuals at all, then, and reject the premise of that argument, much less whether it applies to cults.