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IMO trying to sell rationality to people is like trying to run a corner shop that sells nonalcoholic beer, sticks of celery and bottles of springwater.
Sure, we all know it's good for you, but the place across the road is selling Mars Bars, Budweiser and Marlboros.
The memes and ideas that get (most) people excited are not the careful, cautious ideas of map-territory rationality. Personally, I like map-territory rationality, it excites me, but I realise that I am a bit of a freak because of this.
I hear you, which is why it's important to wrap rationality in forms that make it look like Mars Bars. Here is one example of how I do this. As you can see, this piece was shared over 1K times, so pretty popular (the baseline average for that site is around 100 shares).
Yeah, that's one way, and I suppose there is an important battle to be fought at the margin - some people can are on the boundry between celery and mars bar, and you may be able to help them.
Yup, that is definitely a group we're targeting :-)
It seems like the target audience in this case are secular groups like atheist groups. Atheists groups currently form over being against theism which gets boring with time. I think those groups should be open to rationality if the pitch is right.
Yup, all depends on the pitch - I answered a question about pitching it below.
Yes, this is true, it's a very big overlap.