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With [the art thing](#criticism of effective altruism), it's like, okay, [art](#art) has *always* had these huge costs relative to other stuff you could be doing to ensure survival more directly -- and yet it persists!
With [the art thing](#criticism of effective altruism), it's like, okay, [art](#art) has *always* had these huge costs relative to other stuff you could be doing to ensure survival more directly -- and yet it persists!
We keep arting!
We keep arting!
And one way to look at that is to say, *what massive opportunity for improvement, to trim the fat, let's all focus on the* important *stuff*, but another way to look at it is to say, *hey, maybe that stuff is important even if I can't explain it with measurements right now*.
And one way to look at that is to say, *what massive opportunity for improvement, to trim the fat, let's all focus on the* important *stuff*, but another way to look at it is to say, *hey, maybe that stuff is important even if I can't explain it with measurements right now*.
I guess that's a boring application of [chesterton's fence](#chesterton's fence).
I guess that's a boring application of [chesterton's fence](#chestertons fence).
But the one I'm really tossing around in my head is something akin to [subsidiarity](#subsidiarity), [localism](#localism)... which is this idea that, you know, there's a way in which, you hear about people who don't have enough food, you think, okay, I should give them food.
But the one I'm really tossing around in my head is something akin to [subsidiarity](#subsidiarity), [localism](#localism)... which is this idea that, you know, there's a way in which, you hear about people who don't have enough food, you think, okay, I should give them food.
If the people in question are the folks in tents down the street, that first-order action is likely as good a thing to do as I think it is -- and if it somehow has bad effects, they'll be bad effects in my neighborhood, I can hopefully notice, take responsibility, and work to make amends.
If the people in question are the folks in tents down the street, that first-order action is likely as good a thing to do as I think it is -- and if it somehow has bad effects, they'll be bad effects in my neighborhood, I can hopefully notice, take responsibility, and work to make amends.
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