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When a cultist hits you with their side of, ahm, facts, it invariably ends up being some kind of a logical fallacy. Is there a name for this phenomenon?

In this case it is the "how we dare not trusting all the experts at spaceX."

But even the fallacy itself is applied incorrectly, as we hear zero from anyone else other than the cult leader himself.



So I am a cultist and Elon is cult leader? I think the problem with that is they actually create value in terms of products that work and sell. A cult leader would be more about rhetoric and less about results, I guess? Why does Elon make you so mad?


Nobody said you're a cultist, but do you really think Elon cares more about results than rhetoric?

Where are the Loops? The Hyperloops? The Roadster 2.0s? The full self driving from NYC to LA (due in 2017)? Mars?

Who said Elon made anyone mad?

Your comments are like 100% you projecting your imagination onto things people didn't say.


Oh I thought I was the cultist because my OG comment was saying how dare we not trust the xAI experts. Perhaps you were projecin on that?

I may have been projecting in my interpretations here - I have strong pre-existing beliefs/feelings about Elon being called meritless and claims he didn't "earn" his success. I might have a tendency to see things through that frame.

Tho, I'm quite sure somebody called me a cultist, hahaha. Seems tho I did not intend it, you ended up mad about this. I hope you feel better.




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