I would replace “introduced” to “sold” or “made interesting” here. It’s not enough to introduce a group of people to something—unless their values are already in sync with said something’s _appearance_ (and the appearance, aka elevator pitch, aka hook, is really important here), you would need to apply some marketing/Dark Arts/rhetorics/whatever-you-call-it to persuade them it’s worth it. And, for all claims of “Rationalists should win”, Yudkowsky2008 was too much of a rhetorics-hater (really, not noticing his own pattern of having the good teachers of Defence against the Dark Arts in Hogwarts themselves practicing Dark Arts (or, in case of Lupin, *being* Dark Arts)?) to perform that marketing, and thus the blog went to attract people who already shared the values—nerdy booksmarts (note that a)to the best of my knowledge, HPMoR postdates Sequences; b)Harry Potter isn’t exactly a booksmart-choosing fandom, as is shown by many factors including the gross proportion of “watched-the-films-never-read-the-books” fans against readers AND people who imagine Draco Malfoy to be a refined aristocrat whose behavior is, though not nice, perfectly calibred instead of the petty bully we see in both books and films AND—I should stop here before I go on a tangent; so I am not certain how much “Harry Potter fans” is relevant).
I would replace “introduced” to “sold” or “made interesting” here. It’s not enough to introduce a group of people to something—unless their values are already in sync with said something’s _appearance_ (and the appearance, aka elevator pitch, aka hook, is really important here), you would need to apply some marketing/Dark Arts/rhetorics/whatever-you-call-it to persuade them it’s worth it. And, for all claims of “Rationalists should win”, Yudkowsky2008 was too much of a rhetorics-hater (really, not noticing his own pattern of having the good teachers of Defence against the Dark Arts in Hogwarts themselves practicing Dark Arts (or, in case of Lupin, *being* Dark Arts)?) to perform that marketing, and thus the blog went to attract people who already shared the values—nerdy booksmarts (note that a)to the best of my knowledge, HPMoR postdates Sequences; b)Harry Potter isn’t exactly a booksmart-choosing fandom, as is shown by many factors including the gross proportion of “watched-the-films-never-read-the-books” fans against readers AND people who imagine Draco Malfoy to be a refined aristocrat whose behavior is, though not nice, perfectly calibred instead of the petty bully we see in both books and films AND—I should stop here before I go on a tangent; so I am not certain how much “Harry Potter fans” is relevant).