What’s so weird to me about this is that EA has the clout it does today because of these frank discussions. Why shouldn’t we keep doing that?
I think the standard thing for many orgs and cultures to start off open and transparent and move towards closedness and insularity. There are good object-level reasons for the former, and good object-level reasons for the latter, but taken as a whole, it might just better be viewed as a lifecycle thing rather than one of principled arguments.
Open Phil is an unusually transparent and well-documented example in my mind (though perhaps this is changing again in 2022)
I think the standard thing for many orgs and cultures to start off open and transparent and move towards closedness and insularity. There are good object-level reasons for the former, and good object-level reasons for the latter, but taken as a whole, it might just better be viewed as a lifecycle thing rather than one of principled arguments.
Open Phil is an unusually transparent and well-documented example in my mind (though perhaps this is changing again in 2022)
I can see good reasons for individual orgs to do that, but way fewer for EA writ large to do this. I’m with Rob Bensinger on this.