“ But, as with other discourse, these proposals assume that because a foundation called Open Philanthropy is interested in the “EA Community” that the “EA Community” has/deserves/should be entitled to a say in how the foundation spends their money.”
I think the claim of entitlement here is both an uncharitable interpretation and irrelevant to the object level claim of “more democratic decision making would be more effective at improving the world”.
I think these proposals can be interpreted as “here is how EA could improve the long-term effectiveness of its spending”, in a similar way to how EA has spent years telling philanthropists “here is how you could improve the effectiveness of your spending”.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to pay too much attention to the difference in framing between “EA should do X” and “EA would be better at improving the world if it did X”.
“ But, as with other discourse, these proposals assume that because a foundation called Open Philanthropy is interested in the “EA Community” that the “EA Community” has/deserves/should be entitled to a say in how the foundation spends their money.”
I think the claim of entitlement here is both an uncharitable interpretation and irrelevant to the object level claim of “more democratic decision making would be more effective at improving the world”.
I think these proposals can be interpreted as “here is how EA could improve the long-term effectiveness of its spending”, in a similar way to how EA has spent years telling philanthropists “here is how you could improve the effectiveness of your spending”.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to pay too much attention to the difference in framing between “EA should do X” and “EA would be better at improving the world if it did X”.