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The issue with advertising isn't just the ethics. Set the ethics of advertising aside. The issue with advertising is that you're bringing people in on the basis of something other than Effective Altruism.
How many new people could EA successfully culturally inculcate each month? Because that's the maximum number of people you should be successfully reaching each month. EA is fundamentally a rationalist culture; if you introduce non-rationalists faster than you can teach them rationalism, you are destroying your own culture.
How do you foresee this going for EA's culture?