Besides the huge downsides Ryan mentioned (imagine someone reading your whole blog to better craft the perfect adversarially fundable project), publicity would have some toxic effects for the regrantor.
For instance, all new social interactions would have an ulterior interpretation (“they’re sucking up for cash”). In a personal/professional soup like EA that could be maddening. One former grantmaker told me that the degree of sucking-up they got was part of why they moved on. I’m unusually sensitive to such things; I would probably decline to be a public grantmaker.
Privacy also has risks (nepotism, the excess zero-sum social investment in the bloody Bay you mention, insufficient accountability), but those seem smaller to me. But private regrantors were previously balanced out by the open call channel, so it’d be good to hear from FF about how they intend to seek new or peripheral applicants.
Software makes compromise pretty easy though. I quite like the idea of a regrantor publishing an anon post explaining what they’re looking for, with a form attached.
I share this fear but I don’t know if this is clearly stronger than other dynamics in EA when one party has something the other wants (e.g. prestige, network, advice, employment).
Also don’t know but I guess worse here, since it’s your explicit job to listen to applicants, where the usual requests for introductions and attention are rarely part of anyone’s job description.
Besides the huge downsides Ryan mentioned (imagine someone reading your whole blog to better craft the perfect adversarially fundable project), publicity would have some toxic effects for the regrantor.
For instance, all new social interactions would have an ulterior interpretation (“they’re sucking up for cash”). In a personal/professional soup like EA that could be maddening. One former grantmaker told me that the degree of sucking-up they got was part of why they moved on. I’m unusually sensitive to such things; I would probably decline to be a public grantmaker.
Privacy also has risks (nepotism, the excess zero-sum social investment in the bloody Bay you mention, insufficient accountability), but those seem smaller to me. But private regrantors were previously balanced out by the open call channel, so it’d be good to hear from FF about how they intend to seek new or peripheral applicants.
Software makes compromise pretty easy though. I quite like the idea of a regrantor publishing an anon post explaining what they’re looking for, with a form attached.
I share this fear but I don’t know if this is clearly stronger than other dynamics in EA when one party has something the other wants (e.g. prestige, network, advice, employment).
Also don’t know but I guess worse here, since it’s your explicit job to listen to applicants, where the usual requests for introductions and attention are rarely part of anyone’s job description.