I am unsure about the net value of encouraging people to simply need less management and wait for less approval.
Some (most?) people do need guidance until they are able to run projects independently and successfully, ignoring the need doesn’t make it go away.
The unilateralist’s curse is scary. A lot of decisions about EA network growth and strategy that the core organizations have come to are rather counter-intuitive to most of us until we got the chance to talk it through with someone who has spent significant amounts of time thinking about them.
Even with value-aligned actors, coordination might become close to impossible if we accelerate the amount of nodes without accelerating the development of culture. I currently prefer preserving the option of coordination being possible over “many individuals try different things because coordination seemed too difficult a problem to overcome”.
I’d love to hear why this got downvoted. Am I missing something?
Didn’t downvote but my two cents:
I am unsure about the net value of encouraging people to simply need less management and wait for less approval.
Some (most?) people do need guidance until they are able to run projects independently and successfully, ignoring the need doesn’t make it go away.
The unilateralist’s curse is scary. A lot of decisions about EA network growth and strategy that the core organizations have come to are rather counter-intuitive to most of us until we got the chance to talk it through with someone who has spent significant amounts of time thinking about them.
Even with value-aligned actors, coordination might become close to impossible if we accelerate the amount of nodes without accelerating the development of culture. I currently prefer preserving the option of coordination being possible over “many individuals try different things because coordination seemed too difficult a problem to overcome”.