In hindsight they look a bit performative.
There’s a related problem with CEA. Their mission is to nurture the EA community, and their sizeable community health team’s is to “preserve the EA community’s ability to grow and produce value”. But the CH team has focused on public relations, diversity, “discussion norms”, and crisis-response, while the community became unhealthy for a different reason—FTX. It seems like this team, or some other, needs to take on a wider mandate, that includes monitoring of such issues.
This wouldn’t be that surprising, because Nonlinear are known to have violated various kinds of mild norms previously—they named an eponymous prize without consent from the named person or their estate, and they set up a podcast using text-to-speech without obtaining copyright permissions from the authors of the text.