While I thoroughly appreciate your thoughts here and I’m glad you voiced them, I think you started on a miscommunication:
I don’t think the fact that there are costs to this, as anything, is controversial (though I know its cost-effectiveness is), and it sounds to me like Tyler just meant “intrinsic benefits,” in addition to the instrumental benefits to EA community-building. If he thought improving diversity and inclusion in the community had no cost, I would think he’d say its case is irrefutable, not that these benefits merely “strengthen” its case.
While I thoroughly appreciate your thoughts here and I’m glad you voiced them, I think you started on a miscommunication:
I don’t think the fact that there are costs to this, as anything, is controversial (though I know its cost-effectiveness is), and it sounds to me like Tyler just meant “intrinsic benefits,” in addition to the instrumental benefits to EA community-building. If he thought improving diversity and inclusion in the community had no cost, I would think he’d say its case is irrefutable, not that these benefits merely “strengthen” its case.