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this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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I mean, giving inflated titles and grandiose plans is part of the sales pitch. Y'know, for the cult.
Like, I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding here. The problem isn't that the people who want to be cult leaders are able to attract a lot of people who are preinclined to be cult followers and those people suffer the associated psychic damages. It's that even the less culty parts of the rationalist subculture seem to produce a weirdly high number of wannabe cult leaders, even if they don't conceptualize themselves that way.