I basically agree with this, and was going to say something similar.
Though it does seem likely that EA organisations would be somewhat less likely to be perceived as biased or self-interested than US government agencies would be. And this post suggests that the US government is “Perhaps the largest single source of spending on global democracy promotion”. So it seems to me like:
it was fair for the OP to have raised this as an advantage
it’d be even better if the OP had also noted that the geographical distribution of EAs probably makes that advantage smaller than one might otherwise think, and means there may be no advantage at all compared to things like UN agencies or non-EA foundations
I basically agree with this, and was going to say something similar.
Though it does seem likely that EA organisations would be somewhat less likely to be perceived as biased or self-interested than US government agencies would be. And this post suggests that the US government is “Perhaps the largest single source of spending on global democracy promotion”. So it seems to me like:
it was fair for the OP to have raised this as an advantage
it’d be even better if the OP had also noted that the geographical distribution of EAs probably makes that advantage smaller than one might otherwise think, and means there may be no advantage at all compared to things like UN agencies or non-EA foundations