“How much resources aesthetics need” certainly is a central question. There’s definitely a risk of spending too much. For an organization that is fairly successful, though, I don’t think it needs to be a big portion of the total budget in order to get most of the positive effects.
I think it’s fine to say that we shouldn’t care about people joining EA because there’s no art, which in essence means that my first argument about attracting people is irrelevant to EA (or relevant only in the narrower “elite” sense). I’m not sure it’s truly the case, but EA has been successful enough so far so you could totally make that point. I do think that the other two arguments are more important to EA.
“How much resources aesthetics need” certainly is a central question. There’s definitely a risk of spending too much. For an organization that is fairly successful, though, I don’t think it needs to be a big portion of the total budget in order to get most of the positive effects.
I think it’s fine to say that we shouldn’t care about people joining EA because there’s no art, which in essence means that my first argument about attracting people is irrelevant to EA (or relevant only in the narrower “elite” sense). I’m not sure it’s truly the case, but EA has been successful enough so far so you could totally make that point. I do think that the other two arguments are more important to EA.