I think the number one issue is that in so much as the beneficiaries are putting a lot of effort to advance selectively the lines of argument which benefit them personally, there is a huge issue that the positive components of the sum are extremely over represented (people are actually being paid a lot of money to produce those), whereas other options (money in bank + a strategy when to donate, donations to charities that improve education, etc) are massively under valued.
Keep in mind also that the utility of money in bank also becomes enormous, for people who do not quite donate to a bunch of folks with no background in anything (often not even prior history of economically superior employment!) but would donate to existential risk charity founded by people who have clear accomplishments in competitive fields, who poured in their own money, quitted lucrative jobs, and so on, whose involvement and whose dramatic statements are not explainable by self interest alone in absence of any belief in the impact. (Note that existence of such does not even require selfless people, when we are speaking of, among other things, their own personal survival and/or their own revival from frozen state)
I think the number one issue is that in so much as the beneficiaries are putting a lot of effort to advance selectively the lines of argument which benefit them personally, there is a huge issue that the positive components of the sum are extremely over represented (people are actually being paid a lot of money to produce those), whereas other options (money in bank + a strategy when to donate, donations to charities that improve education, etc) are massively under valued.
Keep in mind also that the utility of money in bank also becomes enormous, for people who do not quite donate to a bunch of folks with no background in anything (often not even prior history of economically superior employment!) but would donate to existential risk charity founded by people who have clear accomplishments in competitive fields, who poured in their own money, quitted lucrative jobs, and so on, whose involvement and whose dramatic statements are not explainable by self interest alone in absence of any belief in the impact. (Note that existence of such does not even require selfless people, when we are speaking of, among other things, their own personal survival and/or their own revival from frozen state)