Thanks for the feedback John! If your threat model is âthe UK Charity Commission is more likely to censure EV UK because I (someone who doesnât work for EV UK[1]) made a post on a small forum with memesâ then I donât think you are modeling them well, for what thatâs worth.
I also just really want to use the Forum to communicate with EAs authentically. Iâm not so naĂŻve that I am going to ignore the possibility that some journalist or government agency takes my words out of context, but I really really do not want to be optimizing for that scenario at the expense of everything else.
(My sense is that people feeling like they can only share things on the Forum which pass some sort of PR filter has made it harder for us to actually solve the problems you list. But thatâs perhaps a bigger discussion.)
I donât blame a casual observer for mixing up EV US and EV UK, but the charity commission is not a casual observer. More info on our structure can be found here.
I donât blame a casual observer for mixing up EV US and EV UK, but the charity commission is not a casual observer. More info on our structure can be found here.
FWIW the org chart does not make it clear (to me, admittedly a casual-ish observer) that you do not in fact report to the board of EV UK.
It also seems to me that the structure is that Ben reports to Howie (EV UK CEO) and Zach (EV US CEO) who report to their respective boards. And the charity commission would be likely to care about what Ben does because heâs running CEA, one of the largest EVF projects?
Yeah, in retrospect I regret including that parenthetical. The important piece was that the Charity Commission doesnât care about memes; me being a UK employee or not isnât that important, and distracted from the more important bit.
Thanks for the feedback John! If your threat model is âthe UK Charity Commission is more likely to censure EV UK because I (someone who doesnât work for EV UK[1]) made a post on a small forum with memesâ then I donât think you are modeling them well, for what thatâs worth.
I also just really want to use the Forum to communicate with EAs authentically. Iâm not so naĂŻve that I am going to ignore the possibility that some journalist or government agency takes my words out of context, but I really really do not want to be optimizing for that scenario at the expense of everything else.
(My sense is that people feeling like they can only share things on the Forum which pass some sort of PR filter has made it harder for us to actually solve the problems you list. But thatâs perhaps a bigger discussion.)
I donât blame a casual observer for mixing up EV US and EV UK, but the charity commission is not a casual observer. More info on our structure can be found here.
FWIW the org chart does not make it clear (to me, admittedly a casual-ish observer) that you do not in fact report to the board of EV UK.
Yes actually this is quite strange to me. How does accountability work here?
The CEA UK staff are managed by the CEO of CEA, who is legally part of EV US.
Responsibility for the CEA UK staff ultimately falls on the UK Trustees.
However, the UK Trustees have no ability to exercise oversight over the CEO, because he is in the US.
It also seems to me that the structure is that Ben reports to Howie (EV UK CEO) and Zach (EV US CEO) who report to their respective boards. And the charity commission would be likely to care about what Ben does because heâs running CEA, one of the largest EVF projects?
Yeah, in retrospect I regret including that parenthetical. The important piece was that the Charity Commission doesnât care about memes; me being a UK employee or not isnât that important, and distracted from the more important bit.