It seems to me that EA has still not updated enough from SBF, and is too willing to trust other EAs and assume they are good actors. Maybe EAs need to offer each other less benefit of the doubt, and reduce incestuous hiring practices which deprioritize work experience from outside the EA community. Having some more “outsider” type employees could help address groupthink where everyone updates based on everyone else apparently believing that a particular response is appropriate.
Furthermore I suspect that the “we are all on the same team” mentality can also exacerbate groupthink, e.g. in this particular case it might’ve been helpful if a particular person was explicitly chosen to be Fran’s advocate, to reduce the burden on her and steelman the case that specific actions are necessary. More generally it seems like the community could potentially use a dedicated survivor advocate, who interviews survivors and lobbies for specific changes.
Even now it seems like there still hasn’t been a compassionate and effective “root cause” post-mortem of this incident.
It seems to me that EA has still not updated enough from SBF, and is too willing to trust other EAs and assume they are good actors. Maybe EAs need to offer each other less benefit of the doubt, and reduce incestuous hiring practices which deprioritize work experience from outside the EA community. Having some more “outsider” type employees could help address groupthink where everyone updates based on everyone else apparently believing that a particular response is appropriate.
Furthermore I suspect that the “we are all on the same team” mentality can also exacerbate groupthink, e.g. in this particular case it might’ve been helpful if a particular person was explicitly chosen to be Fran’s advocate, to reduce the burden on her and steelman the case that specific actions are necessary. More generally it seems like the community could potentially use a dedicated survivor advocate, who interviews survivors and lobbies for specific changes. Even now it seems like there still hasn’t been a compassionate and effective “root cause” post-mortem of this incident.