Honestly, I’m happy with this compromise. I want to hear more about what ‘leadership’ is thinking, but I also understand the constraints you all have.
This obviously doesn’t answer the questions people have, but at least communicating this instead of radio silence is very much appreciated. For me at least, it feels like it helps reduce feelings of disconnectedness and makes the situation a little less frustrating.
Strongly agree here. Simply engaging with the community seems far better than silence. I think the object level details of FTX are less important than making the community not feel like it has been thrown to the wolves.
I remember the first 24 hours, I was seriously spooked by the quiet. I had no idea that there were going to be hostile lawyers and journalists swarming all over the place, combing the crisis for slips of the tongue to take out of context. Politicians might even join in after the dust settles from the election and the status of the deposits become clear.
EA “leadership” was not optimized to handle this sort of thing, whereas conventional charities optimize for that risk by default e.g. dumping all their bednets in a random village in order to cut costs, so if people look then they can honestly say that they minimized overhead and maximized bednets per dollar.
Honestly, I’m happy with this compromise. I want to hear more about what ‘leadership’ is thinking, but I also understand the constraints you all have.
This obviously doesn’t answer the questions people have, but at least communicating this instead of radio silence is very much appreciated. For me at least, it feels like it helps reduce feelings of disconnectedness and makes the situation a little less frustrating.
Strongly agree here. Simply engaging with the community seems far better than silence. I think the object level details of FTX are less important than making the community not feel like it has been thrown to the wolves.
I remember the first 24 hours, I was seriously spooked by the quiet. I had no idea that there were going to be hostile lawyers and journalists swarming all over the place, combing the crisis for slips of the tongue to take out of context. Politicians might even join in after the dust settles from the election and the status of the deposits become clear.
EA “leadership” was not optimized to handle this sort of thing, whereas conventional charities optimize for that risk by default e.g. dumping all their bednets in a random village in order to cut costs, so if people look then they can honestly say that they minimized overhead and maximized bednets per dollar.