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Is that a problem?
So long as a sufficient number of people are involved in the rationalist community for it to continue growing and innovating, I'm pretty okay with having other people using rationalist ideas and purposes to further their own goals, as long as they're not destructive.
Though, if a person's propensity to split is correlated with effectiveness, that would be bad.
I might have phrased it badly. I think I would enjoy a fork to some degree. The more obvious one being a rationalist group without all the 'crazy' transhuman and AI stuff. Or maybe around some base disagreement.
Sadly limited thought power can lead to all kinds of destructive purposes. But eitherway we should not assume that LW is already the best place there is.
In some ways, my 'Insufficiently Awesome' project is a fork. I'm going to be concentrating on community-building, helping people to become effective physically and socially, and most importantly having fun. I'm not ever going to be one of the 'first-tier' rationalists, and I view a contribution on the supporting side to be my most effective plan of action.
I'm not going to try to pull people away from LW. Instead, I'm going to try to form a group that is fun enough that people not already in LW join it, and possibly get interested in joining the main community.
Edit - please disregard this post