The way I think EA orgs can improve decision-making is by introducing some kind of meaningful competition. At the moment, the umbrella structure, multi-project orgs, and lack of transparency makes that all but impossible.
Split that into a cluster including an org that, say, just runs events and isn’t officially supported by EVF and you have a level playing field and a useful comparison with another org that also started to run events—while having a big enough space of event types that both could semi-cooperate.
If both orgs are also transparent enough that substantial discrepancies between how well they operate are visible, then you have a real possibility of funders reacting to such discrepancies in a way that incentivises the orgs and their staff to perform well. At the moment I just don’t feel like these incentives exist.
The way I think EA orgs can improve decision-making is by introducing some kind of meaningful competition. At the moment, the umbrella structure, multi-project orgs, and lack of transparency makes that all but impossible.
Split that into a cluster including an org that, say, just runs events and isn’t officially supported by EVF and you have a level playing field and a useful comparison with another org that also started to run events—while having a big enough space of event types that both could semi-cooperate.
If both orgs are also transparent enough that substantial discrepancies between how well they operate are visible, then you have a real possibility of funders reacting to such discrepancies in a way that incentivises the orgs and their staff to perform well. At the moment I just don’t feel like these incentives exist.