After your talk at the SERI Conference, I really enjoyed reading this more detailed write-up of your recent updates. I’d be keen to see an update on how the Longtermist EA Movement-Building team ends up trying to address the concerns you’re worried about!
In particular, I share concerns around the possibility that grant evaluation could become increasingly affected by more visible signals like certain names or reputations. To me, this is not only by default a concern considering the small size of the EA community, but also seems more of a risk with longtermist causes or other projects where EA alignment seems especially important and it is cheaper to rely on reputation (rather than investigating whether an unknown applicant is sufficiently aligned).
After your talk at the SERI Conference, I really enjoyed reading this more detailed write-up of your recent updates. I’d be keen to see an update on how the Longtermist EA Movement-Building team ends up trying to address the concerns you’re worried about!
In particular, I share concerns around the possibility that grant evaluation could become increasingly affected by more visible signals like certain names or reputations. To me, this is not only by default a concern considering the small size of the EA community, but also seems more of a risk with longtermist causes or other projects where EA alignment seems especially important and it is cheaper to rely on reputation (rather than investigating whether an unknown applicant is sufficiently aligned).
Thanks Miranda, I agree these are things to watch really closely for.