David is suggesting in this post that there be more centralisation in the sense that there should be fewer, larger organisations
There has also been talk of EA being too centralised, but this is referring to there being too few funding sources, which (unless I’m misunderstanding) is different from what David is talking about in this post
I agree that this is super confusing. However, I do think that some claims about EA being too centralised have been about there being too few big orgs. I think that’s just not true, and I think the confusion between these two points has probably made it difficult to discuss in the past.
All of which is to say: we should probably prefer to use more specific words than just “centralisation” unqualified.
Something worth clarifying:
David is suggesting in this post that there be more centralisation in the sense that there should be fewer, larger organisations
There has also been talk of EA being too centralised, but this is referring to there being too few funding sources, which (unless I’m misunderstanding) is different from what David is talking about in this post
I agree that this is super confusing. However, I do think that some claims about EA being too centralised have been about there being too few big orgs. I think that’s just not true, and I think the confusion between these two points has probably made it difficult to discuss in the past.
All of which is to say: we should probably prefer to use more specific words than just “centralisation” unqualified.