It seems like everyone affiliated with the EA Infrastructure Fund is also strongly affiliated with longtermism. I admire that you are going to use guest managers to add more worldview diversity, but insofar as the infrastructure fund is funding a lot of the community building efforts for effective altruism writ large should we worry about the cause neutrality here?
I agree that greater representation of different viewpoints on the EA Infrastructure Fund seems useful. We aim to add more permanent neartermist fund managers (not just guest managers). Quoting from above:
We’ve struggled to round out the EAIF with a balance of neartermism- and longtermism-focused grantmakers because we received a much larger number of strong applications from longtermist candidates. To better reflect the distribution of views in the EA community, we would like to add more neartermists to the EAIF and have proactively approached some additional candidates. That said, we plan to appoint candidates mostly based on their performance in our hiring process rather than their philosophical views.
Does that answer your question? Please let me know if you had already seen that paragraph and thought it didn’t address your concern.
EDIT: Also note that Ben Kuhn is serving as a guest manager this round. He works on neartermist issues.
(Terminological nitpick: It seems this is not an issue of “cause neutrality” but one of representation of different viewpoints. See here – the current fund managers are all cause-impartial; neartermist fund managers wouldn’t be cause-agnostic either; and the fund is supporting cause-general and cause-divergent work either way.)
It seems like everyone affiliated with the EA Infrastructure Fund is also strongly affiliated with longtermism. I admire that you are going to use guest managers to add more worldview diversity, but insofar as the infrastructure fund is funding a lot of the community building efforts for effective altruism writ large should we worry about the cause neutrality here?
I agree that greater representation of different viewpoints on the EA Infrastructure Fund seems useful. We aim to add more permanent neartermist fund managers (not just guest managers). Quoting from above:
Does that answer your question? Please let me know if you had already seen that paragraph and thought it didn’t address your concern.
EDIT: Also note that Ben Kuhn is serving as a guest manager this round. He works on neartermist issues.
(Terminological nitpick: It seems this is not an issue of “cause neutrality” but one of representation of different viewpoints. See here – the current fund managers are all cause-impartial; neartermist fund managers wouldn’t be cause-agnostic either; and the fund is supporting cause-general and cause-divergent work either way.)