We were and are (from our founding in 2012 through the present) more focused on rationality education for fairly small sets of people who we thought might strongly benefit the world, e.g. by contributing to AI safety or other high-impact things, or by adding enrichment to a community that included such people.
Maybe this was a wrong strategy even given your goals.
Imagine that your goal is to train 10 superheroes, and you have the following options:
A: Identify 10 people with greatest talent, and train them.
B: Focus on scaling. Train 10 000 people.
It seems possible to me that the 10 best heroes in strategy B might actually be better than the 10 heroes in strategy A. Depends on how good you are at identifying talented heroes, whether the ones you choose actually agree to get trained by you, what kinds of people self-select for the scaled-up training, etc.
Furthermore, this is actually a false dilemma. If you find a way to scale, you can still have a part of your team identify and individually approach the talented individuals. They might be even more likely to join if you tell them that you already trained 10 000 people but they will get an individualized elite training.
Maybe this was a wrong strategy even given your goals.
Imagine that your goal is to train 10 superheroes, and you have the following options:
A: Identify 10 people with greatest talent, and train them.
B: Focus on scaling. Train 10 000 people.
It seems possible to me that the 10 best heroes in strategy B might actually be better than the 10 heroes in strategy A. Depends on how good you are at identifying talented heroes, whether the ones you choose actually agree to get trained by you, what kinds of people self-select for the scaled-up training, etc.
Furthermore, this is actually a false dilemma. If you find a way to scale, you can still have a part of your team identify and individually approach the talented individuals. They might be even more likely to join if you tell them that you already trained 10 000 people but they will get an individualized elite training.