Promoting cryonics in my home country doesn’t seem like a great career move.
Try promoting rationality instead. If you succeed, then maybe someone else will take care about cryonics And even if they don’t, you still did something good.
Now the question is whether having more LWers makes it easier or harder to recruit new ones.
If the model is “only certain % of population is the LW type”, then it should be harder, because the low-hanging fruit is already picked. If the model is “rationality is a learned skill”, then it should be easier, because the existing group can provide better support.
I already think Finland is a very smart country (school system, healthy lifestyle), so if it’s the latter model, your local rationalist group should have a great chance to expand. It’s probably important how many of the 15 Finnish LWers live near each other.
If CFAR becomes a success and Finland starts to develop its own branch, I’ll probably donate some money, but working there myself would be like buying fuzzies in a soup kitchen with my inferior cooking skills. Some other kinds of relevant local movements might also get my vocal and monetary support in the future.
At this point marketing our brand of rationality to anyone I don’t know seems like a risky bet. They might get exposed to the wrong kinds of material the wrong time and that wouldn’t mean anything good to my reputation.
Try promoting rationality instead. If you succeed, then maybe someone else will take care about cryonics And even if they don’t, you still did something good.
Well, Finland already is the country with the most LWers per capita (as of the 2012 survey). :-)
Now the question is whether having more LWers makes it easier or harder to recruit new ones.
If the model is “only certain % of population is the LW type”, then it should be harder, because the low-hanging fruit is already picked. If the model is “rationality is a learned skill”, then it should be easier, because the existing group can provide better support.
I already think Finland is a very smart country (school system, healthy lifestyle), so if it’s the latter model, your local rationalist group should have a great chance to expand. It’s probably important how many of the 15 Finnish LWers live near each other.
If CFAR becomes a success and Finland starts to develop its own branch, I’ll probably donate some money, but working there myself would be like buying fuzzies in a soup kitchen with my inferior cooking skills. Some other kinds of relevant local movements might also get my vocal and monetary support in the future.
At this point marketing our brand of rationality to anyone I don’t know seems like a risky bet. They might get exposed to the wrong kinds of material the wrong time and that wouldn’t mean anything good to my reputation.