I guess I’m imagining from either Open Phil’s perspective, or that of other large funders, the risk of value misalignment or incompetence of Open Phil staff is already priced in, and they’ve already paid the cost of evaluating Claire.
It’s hard to imagine that (purely from the perspective of reducing costs of auditing)Holden or Cari or Dustin preferring an unknown quantity to Claire. There might be other good reasons to prefer having a more decentralized board[1], but this particular reason seems wrong.
Likewise, from the perspective of future employees or donors to EVF, the risk of value misalignment or incompetence of EVF’s largest donor is already a cost they necessarily have to pay if they want to work for or fund EVF. So adding a board member (and another source of COI) that’s not associated with Open Phil can only increase the number of COIs, not decrease it.
for example, a) you want a diversity of perspectives, b) you want to reduce the risks of being beholden to specific entities c) you want to increase the number of potential whistleblowers
I guess I’m imagining from either Open Phil’s perspective, or that of other large funders, the risk of value misalignment or incompetence of Open Phil staff is already priced in, and they’ve already paid the cost of evaluating Claire.
It’s hard to imagine that (purely from the perspective of reducing costs of auditing)Holden or Cari or Dustin preferring an unknown quantity to Claire. There might be other good reasons to prefer having a more decentralized board[1], but this particular reason seems wrong.
Likewise, from the perspective of future employees or donors to EVF, the risk of value misalignment or incompetence of EVF’s largest donor is already a cost they necessarily have to pay if they want to work for or fund EVF. So adding a board member (and another source of COI) that’s not associated with Open Phil can only increase the number of COIs, not decrease it.
for example, a) you want a diversity of perspectives, b) you want to reduce the risks of being beholden to specific entities c) you want to increase the number of potential whistleblowers