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No, he's controversial because he runs an online sex cult centered around the idea that 1. if you do a specific kind of math in your head instead of regular thinking you'll automatically be correct about everything 2. computers can do math faster than you 3. therefore computers are going to take over the world and enslave you 4. therefore you should move to Berkeley and live in a group home.


Please don't do this here.


I think it's pretty important to know not to literally join a cult.


I understand that, but the guidelines don't get relaxed because the topic seems important to you. It's common for people to think that a particular issue is so important that the normal rules shouldn't apply or should be interpreted differently in that case, but we can't run the site like that.




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