Alice, a manager at the EA organization MeThinks Priorities
This is going to sound self-serving, but I would prefer if your fake name for EA orgs don’t sound very much like a specific organization. The exception is if you’re specifically criticizing Rethink Priorities[1], in which case I would prefer if you state your criticism more explicitly.
I also found this curious. The original post did, at least, preface the reference to “MeThinks Priorities” with
(all resemblances to real life are a coincidence borne out of my lack of naming creativity and time)
But the reference to “MeThinks Priorities” didn’t seem to add anything to the post, and it would have been fine to just say “Alice, a manager at an EA org...”
This is going to sound self-serving, but I would prefer if your fake name for EA orgs don’t sound very much like a specific organization. The exception is if you’re specifically criticizing Rethink Priorities[1], in which case I would prefer if you state your criticism more explicitly.
(Disclosure: I work at Rethink Priorities)
Which will be mildly surprising to me, since I’m the only RP employee who regularly lives in Berkeley, works from Berkeley offices etc.
I also found this curious. The original post did, at least, preface the reference to “MeThinks Priorities” with
But the reference to “MeThinks Priorities” didn’t seem to add anything to the post, and it would have been fine to just say “Alice, a manager at an EA org...”
This table is a valuable resource for people wanting to come up with imaginary EA org names.