One final issue is who should sponsor an investigation of “what role EA played in FTX coming into existence”; given the linkages between EVF, EVF insiders, and SBF, EVF would be somewhere in the vicinity of last place on my ideal preference list.
I think CEA or EV collaborating with an external but still within-EA trusted organization seems like the best choice to me here. Hiring someone who is broadly known to be independent (like, IDK, you could choose someone from Rethink, or Tyler Cowen, or someone else in that kind of reference class), seems like a good idea.
[Edit: With “collaboration” as defined in Habryka’s response below, my question dissolves.]
Is there a reason to prefer CEA or EV collaborating with an investigator versus someone (or several someones) funding an investigator(s), taking a back seat once the proposal is accepted and funded, and deferring to the investigator(s) what to publish? [I may be reading too much into “collaborating” in your first sentence.]
What I mean by collaboration is “is willing to share any information with them and allow staff to speak freely”. The key obstacle I have faced in trying to do investigations is that nobody is willing to talk or say anything that goes on the record by organizational policy, which of course makes this kind of thing very hard to pull off.
I also think it would help a lot if CEA were to lend some credibility to the investigation. People don’t want to repeat the same thing hundreds of times, and it would IMO be good for CEA/EV to put some social capital on the line to encourage people to talk to the investigators.
I think CEA or EV collaborating with an external but still within-EA trusted organization seems like the best choice to me here. Hiring someone who is broadly known to be independent (like, IDK, you could choose someone from Rethink, or Tyler Cowen, or someone else in that kind of reference class), seems like a good idea.
[Edit: With “collaboration” as defined in Habryka’s response below, my question dissolves.]
Is there a reason to prefer CEA or EV collaborating with an investigator versus someone (or several someones) funding an investigator(s), taking a back seat once the proposal is accepted and funded, and deferring to the investigator(s) what to publish? [I may be reading too much into “collaborating” in your first sentence.]What I mean by collaboration is “is willing to share any information with them and allow staff to speak freely”. The key obstacle I have faced in trying to do investigations is that nobody is willing to talk or say anything that goes on the record by organizational policy, which of course makes this kind of thing very hard to pull off.
I also think it would help a lot if CEA were to lend some credibility to the investigation. People don’t want to repeat the same thing hundreds of times, and it would IMO be good for CEA/EV to put some social capital on the line to encourage people to talk to the investigators.