the EA community is not an organization, and I don’t think the analogy works very well?
It’s definitely not one single entity with super clear delineations, but I think there are some sizeable clusters within the professional EA community (in my mind, mainly funders, EA community organizers, research organizations) that do work fairly closely together
Maybe one sign is that I think there are a bunch of “EA Bureaucracy” roles where it’s fairly easy to transfer from one to another, even though they are in technically different organizations.
This seems similar to me to larger organizations.
The finance team at Google arguably doesn’t have much in common with the IT department. But I think it’s still useful they have some private communication channels that cover both.
It’s definitely not one single entity with super clear delineations, but I think there are some sizeable clusters within the professional EA community (in my mind, mainly funders, EA community organizers, research organizations) that do work fairly closely together
Maybe one sign is that I think there are a bunch of “EA Bureaucracy” roles where it’s fairly easy to transfer from one to another, even though they are in technically different organizations.
This seems similar to me to larger organizations.
The finance team at Google arguably doesn’t have much in common with the IT department. But I think it’s still useful they have some private communication channels that cover both.