Do we want more publicity... ? Well, we want to "improve human rationality", "raise the sanity waterline", right? Would more publicity help with that? I think we all agree the site benefits its users.
Could the site maintain its quality with a major influx of new users? I think so... we have limitations/minimum karma for upvoting, downvoting and posting, which should limit any ill intentioned or misguided disturbances. Hacker News is a good model btw, they managed to preserve site quality during major user growth by periodically raising the karma requirements for downvoting.
Can the site cope with A LOT more traffic? ... dunno, what say the site administrators?
Recently reporters from two major national magazines contacted me in preparation for doing stories on Bitcoin. This reminded me that Wired magazine did a cover story on the Cypherpunks in its second issue. I think the LessWrong community is already larger and more active than Cypherpunks were back then, and potentially more influential, but there hasn't been much publicity on us. I'm tempted to suggest doing a story on LessWrong to one of the reporters. Is this a good idea, or bad?
More generally, do we want more publicity, and if so what's the best way to go about getting it?
ETA: Would it be bad etiquette to reveal the names of these magazines at this point, or even to say as much as I've said?