I just don’t think it’s a decisive argument against the Bahamas fellowship having been a good idea. Like I expect it’s among the top 5–10 but very likely not the top 1–3 considerations one would need to look at whether the Bahamas fellowship was overall worth it.
I expect the two of us are roughly on the same page about this.)
Yeah I agree with this. To be more specific, I think the biggest reasons the high costs/fanciness can be bad are as the OP says optics and epistemics (or more descriptively, “losing the spartan character of earlier EA is bad for our soul or something”), though the opportunity cost of the money is also non-trivial in absolute terms.
Yeah I agree with this. To be more specific, I think the biggest reasons the high costs/fanciness can be bad are as the OP says optics and epistemics (or more descriptively, “losing the spartan character of earlier EA is bad for our soul or something”), though the opportunity cost of the money is also non-trivial in absolute terms.