Yes, there are several reasons why Open Phil is reluctant to hire in-house talent in many cases, hence the “e.g.” before “because our needs change over time, so we can’t make a commitment that there’s much future work of a particular sort to be done within our organizations.”
I actually think there is more widespread EA client demand (outside OP) for EA consulting of the types listed in this post than the post itself represents, because there were several people who gave me feedback on the post and said something like “This is great, I think my org has lots of demand for several of these services if they can be provided to a sufficient quality level, but please don’t quote me on that because I haven’t thought hard enough about this and don’t want people to become over-enthusiastic about this on the basis of my OTOH reaction.” Perhaps I should’ve mentioned this in the original post.
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Yes, there are several reasons why Open Phil is reluctant to hire in-house talent in many cases, hence the “e.g.” before “because our needs change over time, so we can’t make a commitment that there’s much future work of a particular sort to be done within our organizations.”
I actually think there is more widespread EA client demand (outside OP) for EA consulting of the types listed in this post than the post itself represents, because there were several people who gave me feedback on the post and said something like “This is great, I think my org has lots of demand for several of these services if they can be provided to a sufficient quality level, but please don’t quote me on that because I haven’t thought hard enough about this and don’t want people to become over-enthusiastic about this on the basis of my OTOH reaction.” Perhaps I should’ve mentioned this in the original post.