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To stay with the metaphor, I think the ocean is really big and raising the waterline is a waste of time relative to making fountains in key places.
What is your evaluation of the effect or worthiness of HPMoR?
I think it's done a lot more good by drawing people to LessWrong (albeit at the cost of some degree of Harry Potter fanfic readerification), than by raising the waterline in the general population.
That's an interesting point. How do you think games could help create "fountains"?
Edit: Actually, a more relevant question is "Why fountains?" And "What exactly do you mean by them?"
Fountains for raising the sanity waterline in specific places where there'll be a greater impact.
That makes sense, but I don't know where the specific places are. I could make a guess or two. Either way, I love making games, so this is the path I'm taking, but I'll agree that if you want to maximize rationality, a wide-spread approach might not be the best thing (more research needed).