BTW, I think the EA decisionmakers involved with Wytham Abbey are basically OK people, who most likely just made a very human mistake here.
Because I have faith in the decisionmakers involved, I’m going to suggest an exercise: leave a line of retreat, take out a piece of paper, and write out a plan for what they can do next, in a hypothetical world where they knew for a fact that this choice of venue was a result of their own self-serving bias.
I think if they go through with this exercise, they will realize that their options in this hypothetical are actually quite good—e.g. offering a public apology and selling the venue would probably result in a very good outcome for multiple reasons. And once they’ve internalized that, it will be easier to think clearly about whether the hypothetical is, in fact, true.
BTW, I think the EA decisionmakers involved with Wytham Abbey are basically OK people, who most likely just made a very human mistake here.
Because I have faith in the decisionmakers involved, I’m going to suggest an exercise: leave a line of retreat, take out a piece of paper, and write out a plan for what they can do next, in a hypothetical world where they knew for a fact that this choice of venue was a result of their own self-serving bias.
I think if they go through with this exercise, they will realize that their options in this hypothetical are actually quite good—e.g. offering a public apology and selling the venue would probably result in a very good outcome for multiple reasons. And once they’ve internalized that, it will be easier to think clearly about whether the hypothetical is, in fact, true.