I also think there’s some potential to re-orient the EA pipeline around this concept. If local EA meetups did a collective donor lottery, then even if only one of them ends up allocating the money, they could still solicit help from others to think about it.
My experience is that EA meetups struggle a bit with “what do we actually do to maintain community cohesiveness, given that for many of us our core action is something we do a couple times per year, mostly privately.” If a local meetup did a collective donor lottery, than even if only one person wins the lottery, they could still solicit help from others to evaluate donor targets, and make it a collective group project. (while being the sort of project that’s okay if some people flake on)
I also think there’s some potential to re-orient the EA pipeline around this concept. If local EA meetups did a collective donor lottery, then even if only one of them ends up allocating the money, they could still solicit help from others to think about it.
My experience is that EA meetups struggle a bit with “what do we actually do to maintain community cohesiveness, given that for many of us our core action is something we do a couple times per year, mostly privately.” If a local meetup did a collective donor lottery, than even if only one person wins the lottery, they could still solicit help from others to evaluate donor targets, and make it a collective group project. (while being the sort of project that’s okay if some people flake on)