Given the United States is the primary country among rationalists; successes in moving the dial on any policy in that country as one of the biggest, richest and most powerful in the world based on EV grounds, even given the small chance of success, would be a big win for rationality and the proof of concept for mass sanity waterline-raising; practice in policy optimization among rationalists everywhere on behalf of rationalists in one country will teach us lessons transferable to other countries or domains of action; and how American rationalists can benefit from the resource of extra cognitive power as the community focuses on one country at a time, I think the worldwide community endorsing a country-specific policy platform now is consistent with the community’s long-term eye towards be(com)ing a more global movement.
Given the United States is the primary country among rationalists; successes in moving the dial on any policy in that country as one of the biggest, richest and most powerful in the world based on EV grounds, even given the small chance of success, would be a big win for rationality and the proof of concept for mass sanity waterline-raising; practice in policy optimization among rationalists everywhere on behalf of rationalists in one country will teach us lessons transferable to other countries or domains of action; and how American rationalists can benefit from the resource of extra cognitive power as the community focuses on one country at a time, I think the worldwide community endorsing a country-specific policy platform now is consistent with the community’s long-term eye towards be(com)ing a more global movement.