Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Two Cult Koans - Less Wrong

54 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 December 2007 05:45AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 December 2007 11:17:56PM 13 points [-]

If you can't figure out how to use the hammer, but you nonetheless convince younger students of its importance, aren't you likely to be in a cult? Or more likely, if you can see that many of the other teachers are teaching material they don't understand?

Sounds like either a cult or a college.