Almost of the elements that make EA seem culty seem to me to hail from the rationality side of the movement: Pascalian reasoning, in-group jargon, hero worship, or rather epistemic deferral to heroes and to holy texts, and eschatology
The hero worship is I think especially concerning and is a striking way that implicit/”revealed” norms contradict explicit epistemic norms for some EAs
The hero worship is I think especially concerning and is a striking way that implicit/”revealed” norms contradict explicit epistemic norms for some EAs