I appreciate this survey and I found many of your questions to be charming probes. I would like to register that I object to the “is elitism good actually?” framing here. There is a very common way to define the term “elitism” that is just straightforwardly negative. Like, “elitism” implies classist, inegalitarian stuff that goes beyond just using it as an edgelord libertarian way of saying “meritocracy”.
I think there is a lot of conceptual tension between EA as a literal mass movement and EA as an usually talent dense clique / professional network. Probably there is room in the world for both high skill professional networks and broad ethical movements, but y’know …
I appreciate this survey and I found many of your questions to be charming probes. I would like to register that I object to the “is elitism good actually?” framing here. There is a very common way to define the term “elitism” that is just straightforwardly negative. Like, “elitism” implies classist, inegalitarian stuff that goes beyond just using it as an edgelord libertarian way of saying “meritocracy”.
I think there is a lot of conceptual tension between EA as a literal mass movement and EA as an usually talent dense clique / professional network. Probably there is room in the world for both high skill professional networks and broad ethical movements, but y’know …