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==Drama== | ==Drama== | ||
{{Quote|text= | {{Quote|text=“His posts are around 40% useful information and 60% ramble, awkwardly conspiratorial "let's you and me stick it to the man, eh?", and self-aggrandizement. He calls himself a guru unironically and has a pet collective noun for his readers. He has a financial incentive to make the blog archives hard to parse. Also, the blog archives are hard to parse. | ||
He has also been making a concerted effort to move the community's conversations into forums which are not publicly accessible, and he enforces strong groupthink within those private groups. He comes across as a cult leader who is trying to keep his flock from straying. I honestly have no idea whether it's malicious '''but it is hugely damaging to the mainstream uptake of these ideas.'''|sign=Andrew Backhouse|source=''Reversing Lens-Induced Myopia: A Human-Friendly Primer''<ref>Andrew Backhouse, ''Reversing Lens-Induced Myopia: A Human-Friendly Primer'', https://www.losetheglasses.org/</ref>}} | He has also been making a concerted effort to move the community's conversations into forums which are not publicly accessible, and he enforces strong groupthink within those private groups. He comes across as a cult leader who is trying to keep his flock from straying. I honestly have no idea whether it's malicious '''but it is hugely damaging to the mainstream uptake of these ideas.'''”|sign=Andrew Backhouse|source=''Reversing Lens-Induced Myopia: A Human-Friendly Primer''<ref>Andrew Backhouse, ''Reversing Lens-Induced Myopia: A Human-Friendly Primer'', https://www.losetheglasses.org/</ref>}} | ||
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{{Quote|text=“I make a fascinating, objectively massive, almost completely embarrassing amount of financial gains by betting that you won’t take my advice here.”|sign=Jake Steiner}} | |||
==See also== | ==See also== |