If all the Catholics lived in Rome, I don’t think most of the world would care about Catholicism very much.
Currently both the Amish and the Mormons are more effective at increasing their believer counts then the catholics.
In both cases there’s a strong focus on a certain demographic region.
The root problem is that “rationality” as a project, is not a location based activity, and putting all the rationality actors in one place is not an obviously-effective strategy to spreading and evolving rational thought.
If you see the project of rationality as mainly about spreading what we already have, then being distributed would make sense. If you see it more as being about going from 0 to 1 and evolving new rationalist techniques and models, it’s more useful to be concentrated.
Evolving rational thought is about sitting down together and doing hard work. Being in the same location helps with doing hard work together. It also makes it easier to pass knowledge about experiments, both successful and failed along.
Currently both the Amish and the Mormons are more effective at increasing their believer counts then the catholics.
In both cases there’s a strong focus on a certain demographic region.
If you see the project of rationality as mainly about spreading what we already have, then being distributed would make sense. If you see it more as being about going from 0 to 1 and evolving new rationalist techniques and models, it’s more useful to be concentrated.
Evolving rational thought is about sitting down together and doing hard work. Being in the same location helps with doing hard work together. It also makes it easier to pass knowledge about experiments, both successful and failed along.