I’m happy to see the community health team analyze existing data. Will any of this be shared with the rest of the EA community in any way, e.g. after deanonymizing?
I’d also love to see the community health team eventually address some of the most severe allegations that have surfaced recently, specifically this thread and its unresolved questions. While I’m happy to see Julia say she’s taking a “renewed look at possible steps to take here”, how this comes across is that the renewed look was in response to the case going public. If true, this does raise questions around whether similar cases (egregious and unambiguous abuse of power by senior EAs) were known to the community health team and how they were handled, and whether a similar renewed look might be warranted for these other cases, even if they haven’t been made public or caused any other issues yet.
In general my impression is that while most are very grateful for the community health team’s work, and happy to place their trust accordingly, the current model does require mainly taking the community health team’s word at face value. However, recent events have indicated that this dependence may not be the most sustainable or accountable model going forwards. This is true also from the community health team’s perspective, in terms of being easier to lose the community’s trust if individual team members make human errors, as well as being more susceptible to allegations that may suffer from missing information.
current working model is the community health team seems good at what they do once they talk to people face to face (source: mostly word of mouth, people might have other experiences), some members are maybe temperamentally somewhat conflict averse and in general they are used to ~rat culture levels of charitability when it comes to public communications
regrettably this means that people who are less temperamentally charitable/newer to the movement might find it more difficult to trust them.
seems important to distinguish ‘are people happy with the results of talking to them/are they worthy of trust’ to ‘are they good at comms’
I’m happy to see the community health team analyze existing data. Will any of this be shared with the rest of the EA community in any way, e.g. after deanonymizing?
I’d also love to see the community health team eventually address some of the most severe allegations that have surfaced recently, specifically this thread and its unresolved questions. While I’m happy to see Julia say she’s taking a “renewed look at possible steps to take here”, how this comes across is that the renewed look was in response to the case going public. If true, this does raise questions around whether similar cases (egregious and unambiguous abuse of power by senior EAs) were known to the community health team and how they were handled, and whether a similar renewed look might be warranted for these other cases, even if they haven’t been made public or caused any other issues yet.
In general my impression is that while most are very grateful for the community health team’s work, and happy to place their trust accordingly, the current model does require mainly taking the community health team’s word at face value. However, recent events have indicated that this dependence may not be the most sustainable or accountable model going forwards. This is true also from the community health team’s perspective, in terms of being easier to lose the community’s trust if individual team members make human errors, as well as being more susceptible to allegations that may suffer from missing information.
current working model is the community health team seems good at what they do once they talk to people face to face (source: mostly word of mouth, people might have other experiences), some members are maybe temperamentally somewhat conflict averse and in general they are used to ~rat culture levels of charitability when it comes to public communications
regrettably this means that people who are less temperamentally charitable/newer to the movement might find it more difficult to trust them.
seems important to distinguish ‘are people happy with the results of talking to them/are they worthy of trust’ to ‘are they good at comms’