While I don’t think it would be that difficult to write up a BOTEC on the costs side (e.g., here are some ways EA Funds could be more transparent and I estimate the cost of the package as $50K over five years), quantifying benefits for this kind of thing seems awfully difficult. For instance, I could point to some posts on the forum as evidence that some people are bothered by what they perceive as inadequate transparency, and might be reasonably expected to donate less, not apply / get disillusioned, etc. My sense is that is true of quite a bit in the meta space, and am not sure it is reasonable to expect transparency spend to quantify in a clean manner if similar spends aren’t held to the same standard.
While I don’t think it would be that difficult to write up a BOTEC on the costs side (e.g., here are some ways EA Funds could be more transparent and I estimate the cost of the package as $50K over five years), quantifying benefits for this kind of thing seems awfully difficult. For instance, I could point to some posts on the forum as evidence that some people are bothered by what they perceive as inadequate transparency, and might be reasonably expected to donate less, not apply / get disillusioned, etc. My sense is that is true of quite a bit in the meta space, and am not sure it is reasonable to expect transparency spend to quantify in a clean manner if similar spends aren’t held to the same standard.