Caleb is heavily involved with the EAIF as well as the Long Term Future Fund, and I think me being on the LTFF with him is a stronger conflict of interest than the COI between EAIF and other EVF orgs.
My inside view is that it’s about as strong of a COI as I’ve seen. This is largely based on the exact dynamics of the LTFF, where there tends to be a lot of negotiation going on, and because there is a very clear way in which everything is about distributing money which I think makes a scenario like “Caleb rejects me on the EAIF, therefore I recommend fewer things to orgs he thinks are good on the LTFF” a kind of threat that seems hard to rule out.
Caleb is heavily involved with the EAIF as well as the Long Term Future Fund, and I think me being on the LTFF with him is a stronger conflict of interest than the COI between EAIF and other EVF orgs.
(note for readers: I effectively gave >$10k to LW last year, this isn’t an argument against donating)
This seems quite modest by EA COI standards.
My inside view is that it’s about as strong of a COI as I’ve seen. This is largely based on the exact dynamics of the LTFF, where there tends to be a lot of negotiation going on, and because there is a very clear way in which everything is about distributing money which I think makes a scenario like “Caleb rejects me on the EAIF, therefore I recommend fewer things to orgs he thinks are good on the LTFF” a kind of threat that seems hard to rule out.