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paulfchristiano,
I'm probably one of the people you're trying to reach. I want to help people and I am aware that the approaches favoured by society may well not work. But doing the right thing is really hard.
However many arguments you present to me it's still really hard. For me, it's not a lack of argument that stands in the way of doing the right thing.
What I want is a community of rationalists who are interested in helping others as much as possible. Does such a thing already exist, ready-made? Either as a subset of LW or independent of it?
I can't help feeling that such a thing would help your cause immensely. However good your arguments are, people will want to know "what do I do next?" And they will be much happier with the answer "come meet my friends and throw some ideas around" than "give all your money to SIAI".
This probably is a bit late, but in a general sense Effective Altruism sounds like what you're looking for, although the main emphasis there is the "helping others as much as possible" rather than the "rationalists" part, but there's still a significant overlap in the communities. If both LW and EA are too general for you and you want something with both rationality and utilitarian altruism right in it's mission statement... I'm sure there's some blog somewhere in the ratioinalist blogosphere which is devoted to that specifically, although it might be just a single person's blog rather than a community forum.
Incidentally, if you did find- or found- a specific community along those lines I'd be interested in joining it myself.