Interesting note: we’re about to get a new ED.[1] There’s a mandate for that new ED to come in with their own vision of what CEA should be. I have argued (weakly held) that CEA should either get a vision under the new ED of trying to do more coordination and leadership in the EA community, or should change its name.
One of the things that I like about the EA community is that it is decentralized, meaning there is no single person or entity who sets the direction of, or represents, the community (It’s like Sunni Islam in that way, rather than being like the Catholic Church, which is centrally controlled by the Vatican and the Pope).
Interesting note: we’re about to get a new ED.[1] There’s a mandate for that new ED to come in with their own vision of what CEA should be. I have argued (weakly held) that CEA should either get a vision under the new ED of trying to do more coordination and leadership in the EA community, or should change its name.
Agreed.
Caveat: definitely not speaking for CEA.
It looks like you’ve noticed. And I had forgotten that that post even references explicitly the possibility of changing CEA’s name.