There’s a fine line here between being perceived as a movement of elites and a movement of elitists. I think the first would generally be seen as positive and more likely to bring people in, whereas the second is generally negative.
I don’t think it’s even that fine a line. Don’t exclude people actively. If you want to talk to your rich friends about EA first, that makes sense, but there should be virtually no reason to keep someone out.
(If it does make sense to exclude people actively it might make sense to use a vehicle that society has decided is acceptable for this—for example, it’s considered relatively acceptable for a university to reject a student applying to it, a business or organization to reject someone applying for a job, etc.)
There’s a fine line here between being perceived as a movement of elites and a movement of elitists. I think the first would generally be seen as positive and more likely to bring people in, whereas the second is generally negative.
I don’t think it’s even that fine a line. Don’t exclude people actively. If you want to talk to your rich friends about EA first, that makes sense, but there should be virtually no reason to keep someone out.
(If it does make sense to exclude people actively it might make sense to use a vehicle that society has decided is acceptable for this—for example, it’s considered relatively acceptable for a university to reject a student applying to it, a business or organization to reject someone applying for a job, etc.)
Yes, this is a good way of putting it :-)