The biggest warning sign of a cult is threatening to ostracize you if you associate with "people who are wrong and bad"

Effective Altruism is in danger of actually becoming super culty and people need to speak up and stop it from happening

There’s currently a loud minority of EAs saying that EA should ostracize people if they associate with people who disagree with them.

That we should try to protect EAs from ideas that are not held by the majority of EAs.

This is one of the defining features of a cult.

EA should not cross this line.

EA should have absolutely no say over who you associate with or the information you’re allowed to consume.

If you agree, you should go to these two posts and vote according to your conscience on the posts and comments, and ideally, leave your own comments too.