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Teaser essay bundle āIdeas to Secure Our Futureā:
Producing reasoning transparancy would I think yield echo-chamber-reduction effects, and also inform the powerful person practicing it how to (to them, for starters) weigh pros and cons of transferring power. Moreover, without it, I donāt see using reason and evidence to do the most good practiced, nor with that a license to be a powerful EA, as opposed to simply powerful. And if EA membership would instead just be about trying to do the most good, that would include all of humanity minus some deviants.
I appreciate your point that people that donate are under no obligation. As such an advisory (instead of instructing) role to them seems fitting. On the other hand, the intellectual EA community should however also have the freedom to: not take on certain money, or not take on certain money coupled to certain actions, or disassociate with people, e.g. when this otherwise puts the communityās (intellectual) integrity at risk, e.g. their reasoning transparancy. (And even chosen intransparancy one can be transparant about at a higher level.) In that, also being that much of EA charity work is research-based, an analogy to the scientific community, where such potent integrity risk is also tantamount, seems quite fitting.
All in all there should I think be some balance in the democratic power at both ends, including on the burden of proof, instead of this being fully one-sided. Take in FTX maybe as another (historical) example. And ideally both sides are practicing (reasoning transparancy and are) getting better in being informed by reason and evidence to do good better. Potentially this identifies (and resolves?) some (but not all) cruxes, and fleshes out new ones, while also responding to some of your encouragements, to move the conversation (or reasoning transparancy) forward?