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Aaron Smith-Levin

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

I think he wrote that policy before he created the C organization.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And then what happened is, this is actually how this came into effect.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

He created this organization.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

You had a lot of people on a ship and everybody was just banging each other.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And it created just a nightmare of personal relationship.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

It was making production impossible.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Not because everybody was spending so much time banging, but because everybody was so upset about who was banging who.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

100%.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

But not because I'm like fully conversant with the academic differentiations between what's a religion and what's a cult.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

I mean, Scientology would say, well, all small new religions are cults.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And I don't know, that's probably true.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Some people would say all religions are cults.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And I'd be like, depends on how you define religion and it depends on how you define cult.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

But I just fall back on my thing of like, if you're destroying families and bankrupting your members, you're a cult.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

But I'll tell you, I trained jujitsu as well, and I have found that community of people to be one of the most loving and helpful people.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

a group of people ever shout out to john keller gracie baja clearwater um no but seriously like it's one of it's one of the reasons i continue to do it despite my back my hip my shoulder it's like it's just such a cool group of guys goes on

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

It's kind of remarkable they haven't been able to capitalize on these bot armies because there's one thing that they have.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

It's a lot of tax-free money that they got nothing else better to do.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Yeah, right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

You can invest.