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Rebecca Watson wrote about them a week ago: https://skepchick.org/2025/02/the-rationalist-death-cult-spr...

Seems pretty confused. The maxread piece linked above and the Wikipedia article linked below are a lot better.

This one’s a good summary. Also why does it seem like everyone in California is in some cult?

The availability heuristic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

Winter is a hard reality check.

We're not ALL in a cult, nor are we vegan, transgender, or math geniuses. (That last one is a pity, since I was a math major.)

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