I guess I find your proposal that EA operate in low trust mode for a bit to win back the conditions that allow high trust confusing because I would expect that shifting to low trust mode than shifting back to high trust would be very hard, as in almost never the kind of thing that happens.
EA started in low-trust mode (e.g. iirc early GiveWell was even suspicious of the notion of QALYs which is why they came up with their own metrics) and gradually shifted towards higher trust. So it seems plausible to me that we can go back to low-trust mode and slowly win back trust, though maybe this will take too long and EA will die or fade out to irrelevancy before then.
I guess I find your proposal that EA operate in low trust mode for a bit to win back the conditions that allow high trust confusing because I would expect that shifting to low trust mode than shifting back to high trust would be very hard, as in almost never the kind of thing that happens.
EA started in low-trust mode (e.g. iirc early GiveWell was even suspicious of the notion of QALYs which is why they came up with their own metrics) and gradually shifted towards higher trust. So it seems plausible to me that we can go back to low-trust mode and slowly win back trust, though maybe this will take too long and EA will die or fade out to irrelevancy before then.