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Okay, so taking a look at this checklist for LessWrong, we get...
Nope. (Well, not intentionally, anyway... does the basilisk count? People did have nightmares from that...)
...Sort of? I mean, "rationality" is trumpeted as the Winning Way, but I'd say that's justified in that it is the Winning Way. Besides, the category of "rationality" is rather broad, which might mean it doesn't satisfy the definition of "one simple explanation"... eh. Tentatively going with "yes" for now.
Uh, yeah, not even close.
Pretty clear that this one gets a "yes". People self-identify as "LWers" all the time.
Nope.
So, LessWrong meets two of the five criteria, and does not satisfy the remaining three. Does that make it a cult, or not?