Especially when describing groups of people, I think it’s better to start off with the extensional definition (‘the Sequences fanclub’) rather than the intensional definition (‘people devoted to refining the art of human rationality’). If I haven’t heard of the Sensemaking scene, but have heard of the Stoa, seeing them as an example early in the post makes it easier to contextualize the rest.
Especially when describing groups of people, I think it’s better to start off with the extensional definition (‘the Sequences fanclub’) rather than the intensional definition (‘people devoted to refining the art of human rationality’). If I haven’t heard of the Sensemaking scene, but have heard of the Stoa, seeing them as an example early in the post makes it easier to contextualize the rest.