In terms of spreading rationality it might be best to take the indirect approach. Consider, the people that invented the computers we use meant that lots of us know computer programming and have the vocabulary to talk about bayes theory.
So one possibility is to invent very useful technologies that require people to have a rationalist mind set in order for them to use.
I'm also of a show don't tell mindset, if we become super successful at getting what we want people will want to read out biographies and emulate us. This approach also keeps us honest, if we aren't more successful or interesting than other people then we probably don't have much worth talking to them about.
In short I don't like trying to convince people directly.
I found these ideas pretty interesting.
In terms of spreading rationality it might be best to take the indirect approach.
I was thinking about that a bit, how increasing something like economic prosperity seems to help a lot of things (education, governmental stability, decreased violent crime, etc.) as well as other effects like decreasing religiosity. Note: I'm not going to try and cite these claims, it was more the general idea than these specifics. If anyone wants to make a rationality promoting-plan based on this strategy then more research needs t...
So as I read around the discussion section I keep coming across ideas (like this, this, this, or this) which all seem to be very related to the same topics:
Other posts talk about similar things.
I have been interested in this for a while now, and have gotten some great feedback.
But now I'm wondering how many groups, other than SIAI, are trying to do this. It seems like it would be silly to have something like this stagnate because of a simple coordination problem.
So if you are, please come forth and comment. If you're interested, do the same. Share what you know, learn from others, maybe maybe maybe get the ball rolling a bit more.
Note:
I changed the title (originally "Rationality Activism Groups") to reflect the more discussion-oriented nature of this thread.