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One thing that occurs to me is that we can approach the word causes on two levels: The wider movement, and a specific community that caters to it. For example the skeptic/humanist/atheist cluster has a tremendous amount of micro-communities that cater to it.
Another thing that may be a potential blocker is that lesswrong has been identified with the whole SIAI/singularity/transhumanism cluster. In order to accomodate other groups, to the extent that this is reversible, we may have to push that aside (for instance, maybe keep it in the discussion section, like Luke did with his latest advice to SIAI post). But I am not sure whether this community wants to downgrade certain topics in the interest of openning up to other related causes.
I'd say a prime example of something else (i.e. aside from the friendly AI problem) that lesswrong is well suited for is making more real progress in the development of cryonics.
Yes. I quite explicitly mean everything from two people getting together to get something good done, up. I see it as part of the continuum of getting things done that charities are on.
How I tell other people about LW: "Started by transhumanists. So they have these weirdy bits, but it's very good stuff."
I don't see a need to actively reduce it. Let other stuff grow normally. (This post may produce useful suggestions in that direction.)