Setting up your own legal entity is a lot of work. When we where setting up AI Safety Support I was surprised that we could not find anyone to offer EVF-type services to us. After we got our legal stuff set up, AI Safety Support is not offering this service to other orgs.
Asking that every org is it’s own legal entity is very costly and also would not solve any of the problems around power centralisation. I think this post is brining up a good point.
On https://www.effectivealtruism.org/, which serves as an introduction to EA, the EVF links to its own project 80000hours, but not to the competing Probably Good.
This is problematic, but I don’t think it would be solved by forcing 80k to be a separate legal org. Both the fact that CEA signal boost 80k and not PG, and the fact that CEA shares ops team with 80k and not PG, is downstream from who is friends with whom.
If I had anything to say in this, I would want EVF to offer their services to more orgs, not fewer.
Setting up your own legal entity is a lot of work. When we where setting up AI Safety Support I was surprised that we could not find anyone to offer EVF-type services to us. After we got our legal stuff set up, AI Safety Support is not offering this service to other orgs.
Asking that every org is it’s own legal entity is very costly and also would not solve any of the problems around power centralisation. I think this post is brining up a good point.
This is problematic, but I don’t think it would be solved by forcing 80k to be a separate legal org. Both the fact that CEA signal boost 80k and not PG, and the fact that CEA shares ops team with 80k and not PG, is downstream from who is friends with whom.
If I had anything to say in this, I would want EVF to offer their services to more orgs, not fewer.