I was going to write an elaborate rebuttal of the parent comment.
In that rebuttal, I was going to say there’s a striking lack of confidence. The concerns seems like a pretty broad argument against building any business or non-profit organization with a virtuous culture. There’s many counterexamples against this argument—and most have the additional burden of balancing that growth while tackling existential issues like funding.
It’s also curious that corruption and unwieldly growth has to set in exactly now, versus say with the $8B in 2019.
I don’t know enough about Anthropic for example but they just raised $580M mainly from EAs while not intending to make a profit. This could be a good signal to more organisations out there trying to set up a model where they are interesting to EA funders.
Now I sort of see how, combined with several other factors, how maintaining culture and dealing with adverse selection (“lemons”) might be an issue.
I was going to write an elaborate rebuttal of the parent comment.
In that rebuttal, I was going to say there’s a striking lack of confidence. The concerns seems like a pretty broad argument against building any business or non-profit organization with a virtuous culture. There’s many counterexamples against this argument—and most have the additional burden of balancing that growth while tackling existential issues like funding.
It’s also curious that corruption and unwieldly growth has to set in exactly now, versus say with the $8B in 2019.
Now I sort of see how, combined with several other factors, how maintaining culture and dealing with adverse selection (“lemons”) might be an issue.