CEA’s Feb 2017 update gives these reasons for their reorganization:
Consolidation to improve coordination
Discontinuing their philanthropic advising project because they moved less money through wealthy individuals and foundations than expected, their research was less valuable than expected and they were launching EA Funds
Moving their x-risk policy work to FHI
Moving their Oxford Institute for Effective Altruism fully into the university (which I guess became GPI?)
Allowing their fundamentals research team to operate independently
This doesn’t sound like a move towards prioritizing careers/talent, students, longtermism and different cities to me, but maybe you know more or perhaps were thinking of something else?
Yes I think the above is correct. Thanks for that. It is possible GWWC moved to cause neutrality before the review. I think perhaps the point I want to make is that there was a lot of strategic thinking at that time which led to a number of actions including those mentioned in the post.
CEA’s Feb 2017 update gives these reasons for their reorganization:
Consolidation to improve coordination
Discontinuing their philanthropic advising project because they moved less money through wealthy individuals and foundations than expected, their research was less valuable than expected and they were launching EA Funds
Moving their x-risk policy work to FHI
Moving their Oxford Institute for Effective Altruism fully into the university (which I guess became GPI?)
Allowing their fundamentals research team to operate independently
This doesn’t sound like a move towards prioritizing careers/talent, students, longtermism and different cities to me, but maybe you know more or perhaps were thinking of something else?
And this Feb 2017 post from GWWC says that the pledge became cause-neutral in 2014.
Yes I think the above is correct. Thanks for that. It is possible GWWC moved to cause neutrality before the review. I think perhaps the point I want to make is that there was a lot of strategic thinking at that time which led to a number of actions including those mentioned in the post.