To be clear, I am claiming that the section you are linking is not very predictive of how I expect CEA to classify our grants, and is not very predictive of the attitudes that I have seen from CEA and other stakeholders and donors of the funds, in terms of whether they will have an intuitive sense that a grant is “risky”. Indeed, I think that page is kind of misleading and think we should probably rewrite it.
I am concretely claiming that both CEA’s attitudes, the attitudes of various stakeholders, and most donors attitudes is better predicted by the “risk of abuse” framing I have outlined. In that sense, I disagree with you that most donors will be primarily concerned about the kind of risk that is discussed on the EA Funds page.
If risk of abuse really is the big concern for most stakeholders, then I agree rewriting the risk page would make a lot of sense. Since that’s a fairly new page, I’d assumed it incorporated current thinking/feedback.
*nods* This perspective is currently still very new to me, and I’ve only briefly talked about it to people at CEA and other fund members. My sense was that people found the “risk of abuse” framing to resonate a good amount, but this perspective is definitely in no way consensus of the current fund-stakeholders, and is only the best way I can currently make sense of the constraints the fund is facing. I don’t know yet to what degree others will find this perspective compelling.
I don’t think anyone made a mistake by writing the current risk-page, which I think was an honest and good attempt at trying to explain a bunch of observations and perspectives. I just think I now have a better model that I would prefer to use instead.
If risk of abuse really is the big concern for most stakeholders, then I agree rewriting the risk page would make a lot of sense. Since that’s a fairly new page, I’d assumed it incorporated current thinking/feedback.
*nods* This perspective is currently still very new to me, and I’ve only briefly talked about it to people at CEA and other fund members. My sense was that people found the “risk of abuse” framing to resonate a good amount, but this perspective is definitely in no way consensus of the current fund-stakeholders, and is only the best way I can currently make sense of the constraints the fund is facing. I don’t know yet to what degree others will find this perspective compelling.
I don’t think anyone made a mistake by writing the current risk-page, which I think was an honest and good attempt at trying to explain a bunch of observations and perspectives. I just think I now have a better model that I would prefer to use instead.