I think the allegations for the LessWrong types started with the math pet thing?

It's a nice can of worms, that one.

I assume they're referring to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49737985

There have been plenty of allegations about the rationalist community beyond the Zizians, who really don't even qualify as a sex cult as far as I know? Violent, obviously, but they seem... ideologically asexual?