While I personally have trust that Nick Beckstead has been acting in good faith, I also completely understand why donors might choose to stop donating because of this extreme lack of regular communication.
It’s important for EAs to realize that even when you have good intentions and are making good choices about what to do, if you aren’t effectively communicating your thinking to stakeholders, then you aren’t doing all that you should be doing. Communications are vitally important, and I hope that comments like this one really help to drive this point home to not just EA Funds distributors, but also others in the EA community.
While I personally have trust that Nick Beckstead has been acting in good faith, I also completely understand why donors might choose to stop donating because of this extreme lack of regular communication.
It’s important for EAs to realize that even when you have good intentions and are making good choices about what to do, if you aren’t effectively communicating your thinking to stakeholders, then you aren’t doing all that you should be doing. Communications are vitally important, and I hope that comments like this one really help to drive this point home to not just EA Funds distributors, but also others in the EA community.