I’m not fully following things, but my understanding was this was about right a couple years ago but isn’t any longer? Since that controversy, ACE has had a lot of leadership turnover including a new executive director and research director. And in their first Forum post in over a year:
As an EA organization dedicated to transparency and intellectual rigor, we would like to take it a step further and interact more closely with the community that shares these values.
Compare to, around the time they (which was a pretty different group of people at the time) stopped engaging:
We have declined to include our perspective here. The most time-consuming part of our commitment to Representation, Equity, and Inclusion has been responding to hostile communications in the EA community about the topic, such as this one. We prefer to use our time and generously donated funds towards our core programs. Therefore, we will not be engaging any further in this thread.
I’m not fully following things, but my understanding was this was about right a couple years ago but isn’t any longer? Since that controversy, ACE has had a lot of leadership turnover including a new executive director and research director. And in their first Forum post in over a year:
Compare to, around the time they (which was a pretty different group of people at the time) stopped engaging: