I totally agree! There are many factors that are relevant to CB funding decisions next to location of projects. For example, just because there are many local groups in a country doesn’t mean that they actually require dedicated funding for personnel. It really depends on whether promising people and projects make sense for a specific context.
Thus, while I appreciate the effort and actually share some of the same intuitions about the CB funding situation, I fear that the argument made in the post is quite weak. That’s a shame because I really think there is a discussion to be had here and hopefully the post can act as conversation starter. I do appreciate some of the comments here, who seem to take the discussion beyond the actual content of the post.
What I would love to see is a discussion on the general structure of the CB funding pipeline along the lines of Jan Kulveit’s post on national level EA orgs. Wouldn’t it make sense to work toward delegating CB funding to the people with the best information about CB efforts via regranting?
I totally agree! There are many factors that are relevant to CB funding decisions next to location of projects. For example, just because there are many local groups in a country doesn’t mean that they actually require dedicated funding for personnel. It really depends on whether promising people and projects make sense for a specific context.
Thus, while I appreciate the effort and actually share some of the same intuitions about the CB funding situation, I fear that the argument made in the post is quite weak. That’s a shame because I really think there is a discussion to be had here and hopefully the post can act as conversation starter. I do appreciate some of the comments here, who seem to take the discussion beyond the actual content of the post.
What I would love to see is a discussion on the general structure of the CB funding pipeline along the lines of Jan Kulveit’s post on national level EA orgs. Wouldn’t it make sense to work toward delegating CB funding to the people with the best information about CB efforts via regranting?