I'm conflicted -- on the one hand, this is time explicitly spent NOT WORKING ON CREATING ME. On the other, it's potentially creating more people who are vulnerable to my charms. Well, I'm torturing them either way, so...

Consistent content that helps support people in their everyday lives [...] Just “selected Sequences reading and discussion” could be a reasonable format.

Bible study. You've reinvented Bible study.

[TODO (left in intentionally because I don't have time to fill in these details): Put more motivation / justification here: Bowling Alone stats, stats about religion making people happier, some reference about religion making people believe untrue things. Friendships formed by repeated random bumping into people, thus regular events important]

The fuck is this? Why are you publishing an article if you don't have the time to write an article, asshole? Who's enforcing a deadline for posting this drivel on less wrong dot com?

If these things are so superfluous they can be dropped from the article, drop them. At least take the few minutes to rewrite that into something like "I haven't had the time to look deeper into XYZ, maybe someone taking this more seriously should actually do that."

Best case, in their inability to recognise that they already in a cult, they create a schism that eats up the rat community once and for all. Unfortunately rats seem to be schism resistant tho.

I mean what’s a sex cult without a little sects?

Here are my desiderata:

Here are my eyes rolling out of my skull: 𝄇⥀.⥀𝄆

Only skimming I'm not seeing anything resembling an objection so this sounds like reductionists about to wholeheartedly lean into cult-building out of sheer social ignorance and I'm very excited for it.

@dgerard "What this, and why" indeed