Then I would suggest changing the title of the post. ‘Rationality as a cause area’ can mean many things besides ‘growing the rationality community’.
Furthermore, some of the considerations you list in support of the claim that rationality is a promising cause area do not clearly support, and may even undermine, the claim that one should grow the rationality community. Your remarks about epistemic standards, in particular, suggest that one should approach growth very carefully, and that one may want to deprioritize growth in favour of other forms of community building.
Replace “growing” the rationality community with “developing” the rationality community. But that’s a good point. It is worthwhile keeping in mind that the two are seperate. I imagine one of the first tasks of such a group would be figuring out what this actually means.
Then I would suggest changing the title of the post. ‘Rationality as a cause area’ can mean many things besides ‘growing the rationality community’.
Furthermore, some of the considerations you list in support of the claim that rationality is a promising cause area do not clearly support, and may even undermine, the claim that one should grow the rationality community. Your remarks about epistemic standards, in particular, suggest that one should approach growth very carefully, and that one may want to deprioritize growth in favour of other forms of community building.
Replace “growing” the rationality community with “developing” the rationality community. But that’s a good point. It is worthwhile keeping in mind that the two are seperate. I imagine one of the first tasks of such a group would be figuring out what this actually means.