I don’t think that the main problem when it comes to start new groups is about evangelizing. Making it more easy to run a high quality meetup seems to me to me more important then evangelizing with the idea of changing people into rationalists.
If more high quality articles get written on LessWrong those articles inherently spread. It does needs some inherent openness to new information and ways to inform yourself about the world to find high quality articles in your stream of information. The kind of people who initially came to LessWrong were people who have that kind of openess to information that they can be reached that way.
If you put real effort into evangelizing you get Eternal September problems.
I don’t think that the main problem when it comes to start new groups is about evangelizing. Making it more easy to run a high quality meetup seems to me to me more important then evangelizing with the idea of changing people into rationalists.
If more high quality articles get written on LessWrong those articles inherently spread. It does needs some inherent openness to new information and ways to inform yourself about the world to find high quality articles in your stream of information. The kind of people who initially came to LessWrong were people who have that kind of openess to information that they can be reached that way.
If you put real effort into evangelizing you get Eternal September problems.