Others have said this, but you’re getting at whether the movement should prioritize growth and easy assimiliation or maintaining high fidelity to its values. So far most of the core favors the high fidelity model. Personally, I agree, because EA won’t be as effective or could even be destructive if EA as a movement is not anchored in its values. But we miss out on people who don’t have that somewhat extreme, values-driven bent, which is a terrible loss for EA as a community.
Even at the level of organizing at Harvard, I feel torn between seeing our club’s value as spreading some good values on campus (more watered down outreach) or incubating the next generation of high-power EAs (a few intense, targeted waves of outreach). I worry that we unintentionally select for a lot of baggage when we select the intense, highly values-driven people, and that the more the entire movement does that, the more blind we are to it.
Others have said this, but you’re getting at whether the movement should prioritize growth and easy assimiliation or maintaining high fidelity to its values. So far most of the core favors the high fidelity model. Personally, I agree, because EA won’t be as effective or could even be destructive if EA as a movement is not anchored in its values. But we miss out on people who don’t have that somewhat extreme, values-driven bent, which is a terrible loss for EA as a community.
Even at the level of organizing at Harvard, I feel torn between seeing our club’s value as spreading some good values on campus (more watered down outreach) or incubating the next generation of high-power EAs (a few intense, targeted waves of outreach). I worry that we unintentionally select for a lot of baggage when we select the intense, highly values-driven people, and that the more the entire movement does that, the more blind we are to it.