The answer for a long time has been that it’s very hard to drive any change without buy-in from Open Philanthropy. Most organizations in the space are directly dependent on their funding, and even beyond that, they have staff on the boards of CEA and other EA leadership organizations, giving them hard power beyond just funding. Lincoln might be on the EV board, but ultimately what EV and CEA do is directly contingent on OP approval.
OP however has been very uninterested in any kind of reform or structural changes, does not currently have any staff participate in discussion with stakeholders in the EA community beyond a very small group of people, and is majorly limited in what it can say publicly due to managing tricky PR and reputation issues with their primary funder Dustin and their involvement in AI policy.
It is not surprising to me that Lincoln would also feel unclear on how to drive leadership, given this really quite deep gridlock that things have ended up in, with OP having practically filled the complete power vacuum of leadership in EA, but without any interest in actually leading.
Hello Habryka! I occasionally see you post something OP critical and am now wondering “is there a single post where Habryka shares all of his OP related critiques in one spot?”
If that does exist I think it could be very valuable to do.
I think this is the closest that I currently have (in-general, “sharing all of my OP related critiques” would easily be a 2-3 book sized project, so I don’t think it’s feasible, but I try to share what I think whenever it seems particularly pertinent):
I also have some old memos I wrote for the 2023 Coordination Forum I would still be happy to share with people if they DM me that I referenced a few times in past discussions.
Yeah I’ve seen that. I think costly-signalling is very real, and the effort to create something formal, polished and thoughtful would go a long way. But obviously i have no idea what else you’ve got on your plate so YMMV
The answer for a long time has been that it’s very hard to drive any change without buy-in from Open Philanthropy. Most organizations in the space are directly dependent on their funding, and even beyond that, they have staff on the boards of CEA and other EA leadership organizations, giving them hard power beyond just funding. Lincoln might be on the EV board, but ultimately what EV and CEA do is directly contingent on OP approval.
OP however has been very uninterested in any kind of reform or structural changes, does not currently have any staff participate in discussion with stakeholders in the EA community beyond a very small group of people, and is majorly limited in what it can say publicly due to managing tricky PR and reputation issues with their primary funder Dustin and their involvement in AI policy.
It is not surprising to me that Lincoln would also feel unclear on how to drive leadership, given this really quite deep gridlock that things have ended up in, with OP having practically filled the complete power vacuum of leadership in EA, but without any interest in actually leading.
Hello Habryka! I occasionally see you post something OP critical and am now wondering “is there a single post where Habryka shares all of his OP related critiques in one spot?”
If that does exist I think it could be very valuable to do.
I think this is the closest that I currently have (in-general, “sharing all of my OP related critiques” would easily be a 2-3 book sized project, so I don’t think it’s feasible, but I try to share what I think whenever it seems particularly pertinent):
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wn5jTrtKkhspshA4c/michaeldickens-s-shortform?commentId=zoBMvdMAwpjTEY4st
I also have some old memos I wrote for the 2023 Coordination Forum I would still be happy to share with people if they DM me that I referenced a few times in past discussions.
Yeah I’ve seen that. I think costly-signalling is very real, and the effort to create something formal, polished and thoughtful would go a long way. But obviously i have no idea what else you’ve got on your plate so YMMV