This is close to what I was assuming, but you are right I should have been explicit.
My actual assumption is that the marginal difference in cost between taking on one or another guest is negligible. Based on this I make the claim that projects which are not evaluated by the Hotel are zero risk (to the Hotel).
I expect we should always prefer the case where we did not evaluate the project at all to the case where we evaluated it and were wrong. I don’t see any reason to expect that the cost of evaluating experimental projects will have a high enough success rate to be a net benefit, even before we consider the impact of taking time and money away from the focus on supporting people.
This is close to what I was assuming, but you are right I should have been explicit.
My actual assumption is that the marginal difference in cost between taking on one or another guest is negligible. Based on this I make the claim that projects which are not evaluated by the Hotel are zero risk (to the Hotel).
I expect we should always prefer the case where we did not evaluate the project at all to the case where we evaluated it and were wrong. I don’t see any reason to expect that the cost of evaluating experimental projects will have a high enough success rate to be a net benefit, even before we consider the impact of taking time and money away from the focus on supporting people.