>If you believe in this community, you should believe in its ability to make its own decisions.
and these:
>Diverse communities are typically much better at accurately analysing …
>The EA community is notoriously homogenous, and the “average EA” is extremely easy to imagine: he is a white male in his twenties or thirties from
I’m all for transparency, but it’s not clear to me that normal “democracy” if it means “equal voting from the current EA constituency” is likely to make an improvement: as with some primary voting systems, it may lead to an even more narrow leadership culture.
A diverse representative “council” might be better, or something like citizen’s juries and people’s assemblies. Holocracy and Sociocracy would be well worth looking at, along with systemic concensing for ‘minor’ or ‘low consequence’ or short term decisions.
Participatory Learning and Action, participatory budgeting and participatory video are also very useful.
There’s a contradiction between this:
>If you believe in this community, you should believe in its ability to make its own decisions.
and these:
>Diverse communities are typically much better at accurately analysing …
>The EA community is notoriously homogenous, and the “average EA” is extremely easy to imagine: he is a white male in his twenties or thirties from
I’m all for transparency, but it’s not clear to me that normal “democracy” if it means “equal voting from the current EA constituency” is likely to make an improvement: as with some primary voting systems, it may lead to an even more narrow leadership culture.
A diverse representative “council” might be better, or something like citizen’s juries and people’s assemblies. Holocracy and Sociocracy would be well worth looking at, along with systemic concensing for ‘minor’ or ‘low consequence’ or short term decisions.
Participatory Learning and Action, participatory budgeting and participatory video are also very useful.