Maybe what’s going on here is vagueness, and me being unclear.
Jeff’s clarification is helpful. I could have just dropped “part of the EA movement or” and the sentence would have been clearer and better.
The key thing I was meaning in this context is: “Is a project engaging in EA movement-building, such that it would make sense that they at least potentially have obligations or responsibilities towards the EA movement as a whole?” The answer is clearly “no” for LEEP (for example), and “yes” for CEA. On that question, I would say “no” for GovAI, Longview or Wytham, though I’ll caveat I don’t lead any of those projects so that’s just my perception.
“To make it even more clear, many of these projects used to be part of CEA.”
If you mean CEA-the-project (not CEA-the-former-legal-entity), that’s true of EA Funds and GWWC (though GWWC predates CEA and was separate from it prior to merging and then separating again), but not the others.
If you mean CEA-the-legal-entity, the name change from CEA UK and US → Effective Ventures UK and US was when the legal entity started housing more projects that aren’t focused on EA movement-building, and was done in part so that a project’s being housed at EV UK or EV US wouldn’t be understood to mean it was engaged in EA movement-building. (Clearly we should have communicated better about this, as it’s led to a lot of confusion.)
Maybe what’s going on here is vagueness, and me being unclear.
Jeff’s clarification is helpful. I could have just dropped “part of the EA movement or” and the sentence would have been clearer and better.
The key thing I was meaning in this context is: “Is a project engaging in EA movement-building, such that it would make sense that they at least potentially have obligations or responsibilities towards the EA movement as a whole?” The answer is clearly “no” for LEEP (for example), and “yes” for CEA. On that question, I would say “no” for GovAI, Longview or Wytham, though I’ll caveat I don’t lead any of those projects so that’s just my perception.
“To make it even more clear, many of these projects used to be part of CEA.”
If you mean CEA-the-project (not CEA-the-former-legal-entity), that’s true of EA Funds and GWWC (though GWWC predates CEA and was separate from it prior to merging and then separating again), but not the others.
If you mean CEA-the-legal-entity, the name change from CEA UK and US → Effective Ventures UK and US was when the legal entity started housing more projects that aren’t focused on EA movement-building, and was done in part so that a project’s being housed at EV UK or EV US wouldn’t be understood to mean it was engaged in EA movement-building. (Clearly we should have communicated better about this, as it’s led to a lot of confusion.)