For me the issue is that
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it isn’t clear how you could enforce attendance or
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what value individual attendees could have to make it worth their while to attend regularly.
(2) is sort of a collective action/game theoretic/coordination problem.
(1) reflects the rationalist nature of the organization.
Traditional religions back up attendance by divine command. They teach absolutist, divine command theoretic accounts of morality, backed up by accounts of commands from God to attend regularly. At the most severe mode these are backed by threat of eternal hellfire for disobedience. But it doesn’t usually come to that. The moralization of the attendance norm is strong enough to justify moderate amounts of social pressure to conform to it. Often that’s enough.
In a rationalist congregation, if you want a regular attendance norm, you have to ground it in a rational understanding that adhering to the norm makes the organization work. I think that might work, but it’s probably a lot harder because it requires a lot more cognitive steps to get to and it only works so long as attendees buy into the goal of contributing to the project for its own sake.
Have you tried asking Claude to summarize it for you?