I think in some generality scandals tend to be “because things aren’t transparent enough”, since greater transparency would typically have meant issues people would be unhappy with would have tended to get caught and responded to earlier. (My case had elements of “too transparent”, but also definitely had elements of “not transparent enough”.)
Anyway I agree that this particular type of transparency wouldn’t help in most cases. But it doesn’t seem hard to imagine cases, at least in the abstract, where it would kind of help? (e.g. imagine EA culture was pushing a particular lifestyle choice, and then it turned out the owner of the biggest manufacturer in that industry got invited to core EA events)
I think in some generality scandals tend to be “because things aren’t transparent enough”, since greater transparency would typically have meant issues people would be unhappy with would have tended to get caught and responded to earlier. (My case had elements of “too transparent”, but also definitely had elements of “not transparent enough”.)
Anyway I agree that this particular type of transparency wouldn’t help in most cases. But it doesn’t seem hard to imagine cases, at least in the abstract, where it would kind of help? (e.g. imagine EA culture was pushing a particular lifestyle choice, and then it turned out the owner of the biggest manufacturer in that industry got invited to core EA events)