The incentive gradient for status hungry folk is not to double-down on Eliezer’s views, but to double-down on your idiosyncratic version of rationalism, different enough from the community’s to be interesting, but similar enough to be legible.
The easiest way to do that is to add something that is considered high-status in the mainstream society, such as religion. (And claim that misunderstanding the true value of religion is Eliezer’s blind spot.)
Kinda like in the Median Voter Theorem—draw a scale with Eliezer on one end, the mainstream society on the other end, and find a convenient position in between, attracting people who find the direction towards LessWrong fascinating (lots of new ideas) but also limiting (because they would have to give up some of their existing ideas).
The easiest way to do that is to add something that is considered high-status in the mainstream society, such as religion. (And claim that misunderstanding the true value of religion is Eliezer’s blind spot.)
Kinda like in the Median Voter Theorem—draw a scale with Eliezer on one end, the mainstream society on the other end, and find a convenient position in between, attracting people who find the direction towards LessWrong fascinating (lots of new ideas) but also limiting (because they would have to give up some of their existing ideas).