FWIW, I used “if we threw 2000 additional randomly chosen people into an EA conference” as an example precisely because it’s particularly easy to explain/see the issue in that case. I agree that many other cases wouldn’t just be clearly problematic, and thus I avoided them when wanting a quick example. And I can now see how that example therefore seems straw-man-y.)
(Yeah, this seems reasonable.
FWIW, I used “if we threw 2000 additional randomly chosen people into an EA conference” as an example precisely because it’s particularly easy to explain/see the issue in that case. I agree that many other cases wouldn’t just be clearly problematic, and thus I avoided them when wanting a quick example. And I can now see how that example therefore seems straw-man-y.)