As long as the core focuses on unusual priorities – which using neglectedness as a heuristic for prioritization will mean is likely – there’s a risk that new members get surprised when they find out about these unusual priorities
Perhaps there are also some good reasons that people with different life experience both a) don’t make it to ‘core’ and b) prioritize more near term issues.
There’s an assumption here that weirdness alone is off-putting. But, for example, technologists are used to seeing weird startup ideas and considering the contents.
This suggests a next thing to find out is: who disengages and why.
Perhaps there are also some good reasons that people with different life experience both a) don’t make it to ‘core’ and b) prioritize more near term issues.
There’s an assumption here that weirdness alone is off-putting. But, for example, technologists are used to seeing weird startup ideas and considering the contents.
This suggests a next thing to find out is: who disengages and why.
In EA London, women were equally like to attend an EA event for the first time but less and less likely to attend further events*. Anecdotally, some of these women didn’t really see how attending EA events would help them to do good. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2RfQT7cybfS8zoy43/are-men-more-likely-to-attend-ea-london-events-attendance
*EA London has since changed its approach and now focuses less on events.