Hopefully...since it’s a zero-sum game though, I’m not necessarily convinced that we can improve efficiency and learn from our mistakes more than other groups. In fact, I’d expect the %matched to go down next year, as the % of the matching funds directed by the EA community was far larger than the % of total annual donations made by EAs (and so we’re likely to revert to the mean)
Hopefully...since it’s a zero-sum game though, I’m not necessarily convinced that we can improve efficiency and learn from our mistakes more than other groups. In fact, I’d expect the %matched to go down next year, as the % of the matching funds directed by the EA community was far larger than the % of total annual donations made by EAs (and so we’re likely to revert to the mean)
I think we are much more organised than most, and hence more able to learn from our mistakes.
But would this view have predicted we’d only get 13% matched, well below the EA consensus prediction?
I agree that this is a risk.