I also agree that some infrastructure would be good. In the meantime, I suggest reading criticisms of EA from both non-EAs and from EAs, and how EAs respond to the criticism (or how one could successfully respond to it). That’s probably the closest you can get to external audits and checking for flaws in EA.
Unfortunately there’s no central repository of EA criticism that I know of (this seems quite valuable to me!). Carl Shulman said on Facebook recently on a post by Julia Galef that he keeps a personal bookmarks folder of criticisms of groups that he has some affiliation with or interest in. If you’re interested, you could try contacting him to see if it’s shareable.
You can also check the mistakes pages of EA orgs, like GiveWell and 80000 Hours (and their evaluations page). That’s only a partial solution since there could be many mistakes by EA orgs that they themselves don’t recognize, but it’s one step forward of many.
I also agree that some infrastructure would be good. In the meantime, I suggest reading criticisms of EA from both non-EAs and from EAs, and how EAs respond to the criticism (or how one could successfully respond to it). That’s probably the closest you can get to external audits and checking for flaws in EA.
Unfortunately there’s no central repository of EA criticism that I know of (this seems quite valuable to me!). Carl Shulman said on Facebook recently on a post by Julia Galef that he keeps a personal bookmarks folder of criticisms of groups that he has some affiliation with or interest in. If you’re interested, you could try contacting him to see if it’s shareable.
You can also check the mistakes pages of EA orgs, like GiveWell and 80000 Hours (and their evaluations page). That’s only a partial solution since there could be many mistakes by EA orgs that they themselves don’t recognize, but it’s one step forward of many.