Perhaps more EA orgs—like GiveWell, ACE, and FHI—should have their own publicity arms that operate independently of CEA and promote their views to the public, instead of expecting CEA or a handful of public figures like MacAskill to do the heavy lifting.
More spending and effort placed into publicity arms makes sense. Less cohesion and coordination is a hard sell though, that’s more points of failure at best, and at worst risks exploitation/playing both sides by clever outsiders, or inter-org conflict/retaliation that is triggered by accident instead of deliberately.
There needs to at least be an apparatus for negotiation.
More spending and effort placed into publicity arms makes sense. Less cohesion and coordination is a hard sell though, that’s more points of failure at best, and at worst risks exploitation/playing both sides by clever outsiders, or inter-org conflict/retaliation that is triggered by accident instead of deliberately.
There needs to at least be an apparatus for negotiation.