This is good to know. While mentioning MCF, I would bring up that it seems bad to me that MCF seems to be very much within the OP umbrella, as I understand it. I believe that it was funded by OP or CEA, and the people who set it up were employed by CEA, which was primarily funded by OP. Most of the attendees seem like people at OP or CEA, or else heavily funded by OP.
I have a lot of respect for many of these people and am not claiming anything nefarious. But I do think that this acts as a good example of the sort of thing that seems important for the EA community, and also that OP has an incredibly large amount of control over. It seems like an obvious potential conflict of interest.
Quickly: > I agree with the approach’s direction, but this premise doesn’t seem very helpful in shaping the debate.
Sorry, I don’t understand this. What is “the debate” that you are referring to?
I just meant the discussion you wanted to see; I probably used the wrong synonym.
This is good to know. While mentioning MCF, I would bring up that it seems bad to me that MCF seems to be very much within the OP umbrella, as I understand it. I believe that it was funded by OP or CEA, and the people who set it up were employed by CEA, which was primarily funded by OP. Most of the attendees seem like people at OP or CEA, or else heavily funded by OP.
I generally believe that EA is effective at being pragmatic, and in that regard, I think it’s important for the key organizations that are both giving and receiving funding in this area to coordinate, especially with topics like funding diversification. I agree that this is not the ideal world, but this goes back to the main topic.
I generally believe that EA is effective at being pragmatic, and in that regard, I think it’s important for the key organizations that are both giving and receiving funding in this area to coordinate, especially with topics like funding diversification. I agree that this is not the ideal world, but this goes back to the main topic.
For reference, I agree it’s important for these people to be meeting with each other. I wasn’t disagreeing with that.
However, I would hope that over time, there would be more people brought in who aren’t in the immediate OP umbrella, to key discussions of the future of EA. At least have like 10% of the audience be strongly/mostly independent or something.
I think you raise some good points on why diversification as I discuss it is difficult and why it hasn’t been done more.
Quickly:
> I agree with the approach’s direction, but this premise doesn’t seem very helpful in shaping the debate.
Sorry, I don’t understand this. What is “the debate” that you are referring to?
> At the last, MCF funding diversification and the EA brand were the two main topics
This is good to know. While mentioning MCF, I would bring up that it seems bad to me that MCF seems to be very much within the OP umbrella, as I understand it. I believe that it was funded by OP or CEA, and the people who set it up were employed by CEA, which was primarily funded by OP. Most of the attendees seem like people at OP or CEA, or else heavily funded by OP.
I have a lot of respect for many of these people and am not claiming anything nefarious. But I do think that this acts as a good example of the sort of thing that seems important for the EA community, and also that OP has an incredibly large amount of control over. It seems like an obvious potential conflict of interest.
I just meant the discussion you wanted to see; I probably used the wrong synonym.
I generally believe that EA is effective at being pragmatic, and in that regard, I think it’s important for the key organizations that are both giving and receiving funding in this area to coordinate, especially with topics like funding diversification. I agree that this is not the ideal world, but this goes back to the main topic.
For reference, I agree it’s important for these people to be meeting with each other. I wasn’t disagreeing with that.
However, I would hope that over time, there would be more people brought in who aren’t in the immediate OP umbrella, to key discussions of the future of EA. At least have like 10% of the audience be strongly/mostly independent or something.