I don’t think there’s evidence that centralised or decentralised decision-making is in general better than the other. It has to be decided on a case-by-case-basis.
I think this discussion is too abstract and that to determine whether EA grant-making should be more decentralised one needs to get into way more empirical detail. I just wanted to raise a consideration the OP didn’t mention in my top-level comment.
I agree! I was trying to highlight that because we’re not sure that centralized funding is better or not, it would be a high priority to test other mechanisms, especially if there’s reason to believe other mechanisms could result in significantly different outcomes.
I don’t think there’s evidence that centralised or decentralised decision-making is in general better than the other. It has to be decided on a case-by-case-basis.
I think this discussion is too abstract and that to determine whether EA grant-making should be more decentralised one needs to get into way more empirical detail. I just wanted to raise a consideration the OP didn’t mention in my top-level comment.
I agree! I was trying to highlight that because we’re not sure that centralized funding is better or not, it would be a high priority to test other mechanisms, especially if there’s reason to believe other mechanisms could result in significantly different outcomes.