No, Guru Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote an essay about how people asking "This isn’t a cult, is it?" bugs him, so it's fine actually. https://www.readthesequences.com/Cultish-Countercultishness
Cult member: It's not a cult! It's an organization that promotes love and..
Hank Hill: This is it.
Thanks for clarifying though! Oh wait, you didn't.
Edit: Oh, but you call him "Guru" ... so on reflection you were probably (?) making the same point... (whoosh, sorry).
You don't understand how anxious the rationalist community was around that time. We're not talking self-assured confident people here. These articles were written primarily to calm down people who were panickedly asking "we're not a cult, are we" approximately every five minutes.