Multiple comments from multiple fund managers on the EA Infrastructure Fund’s recent Ask Us Anything strongly suggest they also believe there are strong vetting constraints (even if other constraints also matter a lot).
So I’m confident that the start of your comment is incorrect in an important way about an important topic. I think I was already confident of this due to the very wide array of other indications that there are strong vetting constraints, the fact that the quotes you mention don’t really indicate that “EA is not that vetting-constrained” (with the exception of Denise’s comment and the meta space specifically), and the fact that other comments on the same post you’re quoting comments from suggest EA is quite vetting constrained. (See my other replies for details.) But this new batch of evidence reminded me of this and made the incorrectness more salient.
I’ve therefore given your comment a weak downvote. I think it’d be better if it had lower karma because I think the comment would mislead readers about an important thing (and the high karma will lend it more credence). But you were writing in good faith, you were being polite, and other things you said in the comment were more reasonable, so I refrained from a strong downvote.
(But I feel a little awkward/rude about this, hence the weird multi-paragraph explanation.)
Multiple comments from multiple fund managers on the EA Infrastructure Fund’s recent Ask Us Anything strongly suggest they also believe there are strong vetting constraints (even if other constraints also matter a lot).
So I’m confident that the start of your comment is incorrect in an important way about an important topic. I think I was already confident of this due to the very wide array of other indications that there are strong vetting constraints, the fact that the quotes you mention don’t really indicate that “EA is not that vetting-constrained” (with the exception of Denise’s comment and the meta space specifically), and the fact that other comments on the same post you’re quoting comments from suggest EA is quite vetting constrained. (See my other replies for details.) But this new batch of evidence reminded me of this and made the incorrectness more salient.
I’ve therefore given your comment a weak downvote. I think it’d be better if it had lower karma because I think the comment would mislead readers about an important thing (and the high karma will lend it more credence). But you were writing in good faith, you were being polite, and other things you said in the comment were more reasonable, so I refrained from a strong downvote.
(But I feel a little awkward/rude about this, hence the weird multi-paragraph explanation.)
Looking forward to hearing about those vetting constraints! Thanks for keeping the conversation going :)