I have personally heard several CFAR employees and contractors use the word “debugging” to describe all psychological practices, including psychological practices done in large groups of community members. These group sessions were fairly common.
In that section of the transcript, the only part that looks false to me is the implication that there was widespread pressure to engage in these group psychology practices, rather than it just being an option that was around. I have heard from people in CFAR who were put under strong personal and professional pressure to engage in *one-on-one* psychological practices which they did not want to do, but these cases were all within the inner ring and AFAIK not widespread. I never heard any stories of people put under pressure to engage in *group* psychological practices they did not want to do.
The history of big foundations shows clearly that, after the founder’s death, they revert to the mean and give money mostly to whatever is popular and trendy among clerks and administrators, rather than anything unusual which the donor might’ve cared about. If you look at the money flowing out of e.g. the Ford Foundation, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anything which is there because Henry or Edsel Ford thought it was important, rather than because it’s popular among the NGO class who staffs the foundation. See Henry Ford II’s resignation letter.
If you want to accomplish anything more specific than “fund generic charities”—as anyone who accepts the basic tenets of EA obviously should—then creating a perpetual foundation is unwise.