Thanks for sharing your thoughts Ruth! I agree, I was surprised both by the negative votes and also by the lack of comments, particularly since our original article announcing the EA Angel Group was received quite positively. I linked to the EA Forum Post introducing the EA Angel Group at the beginning of the article. I felt that if people had thoughts or concerns with the idea of the angel group they could comment or vote on the original angel group article, but the article had no new votes or comments.
Regarding the many different funding systems and separate application forms that currently exist across EA, I wholeheartedly agree with your perspective. Simplifying a bit, if we assume there are 3 EA funders and 15 EA projects and each funder’s application captures an equal fraction of all projects, each funder can only make funding decisions from their pool of 5 projects rather than the 15 projects that exist. Choosing the best projects to fund out of a smaller set of projects that are randomly selected out of a larger pool seems clearly suboptimal.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Ruth! I agree, I was surprised both by the negative votes and also by the lack of comments, particularly since our original article announcing the EA Angel Group was received quite positively. I linked to the EA Forum Post introducing the EA Angel Group at the beginning of the article. I felt that if people had thoughts or concerns with the idea of the angel group they could comment or vote on the original angel group article, but the article had no new votes or comments.
Regarding the many different funding systems and separate application forms that currently exist across EA, I wholeheartedly agree with your perspective. Simplifying a bit, if we assume there are 3 EA funders and 15 EA projects and each funder’s application captures an equal fraction of all projects, each funder can only make funding decisions from their pool of 5 projects rather than the 15 projects that exist. Choosing the best projects to fund out of a smaller set of projects that are randomly selected out of a larger pool seems clearly suboptimal.