Comment by tangled_zans

Yes! Look up Roko's basilisk.

It's like someone wrote a lovecraft-style horror story, forgot that it was fiction, and totally lost their shit over it.

It used to be a banned discussion on LessWrong because it's supposedly a truth so horrifying that it'll destroy your mind as soon as you understand it.

.... if that's not cult behavior then I don't know what is!