I think I remember some very negative comments on the “Dragon Army” post, but I can’t find them now.
There was a time in the past where people were a bit hysterical about whether LW is a cult or not, and talking about living together was one of the triggers. Recently, everyone seems to have calmed down.
I think I remember some very negative comments on the “Dragon Army” post, but I can’t find them now.
There was a time in the past where people were a bit hysterical about whether LW is a cult or not, and talking about living together was one of the triggers. Recently, everyone seems to have calmed down.
Dragon Army was, in their own words, a “high-commitment, high-standards, high-investment group house model with centralized leadership”. Reading through the negative comments, they’re about ways in which people expect this complex project to go poorly, and not about group houses in general: https://web.archive.org/web/20180117095209/http://lesswrong.com/lw/p23/dragon_army_theory_charter_30min_read/
https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/dragon-army-retrospective-597faf182e50