By Sc*entology-tier I mean filing like a recognized religion for tax purposes, devotees registering as ELO~Nologists on the religious survey blank, and so on.
I think the chances are roughly a coin toss. If the writer of Battlefield Earth can start a cult/religion that's still going after a bet, maybe that's something that :my-hero: can pull off too.
Well longtermism is a thing he and a bunch of other bazinga brains in power believe in. It's basically:
"All our problems are less important than colonizing space and the billions of hypothetical humans later. If you're not helping that, you're hurting these hypothetical humans in the future, and that's worse than all the bad things in society that are happening now (please ignore those)".
He won't form a cult around himself by himself because he's got no follow-through, but he's definitely going to be sainted by people who believe in longtermism.
"Longtermism" can be summarized even more briefly: "Things that matter now don't matter in the bazinga future, but making the rich even richer is top priority because they promise to build the robot god."