Can you give an example of a movement of this scale or larger that had a scandal of this level, and reacted better than EA did?
None come to mind. (To be clear, this doesn’t seem cruxy for whether Effective Altruism has succeeded at reforming itself.)
I think instructive examples to look into would be things like:
How the justice system itself investigates crimes. I really like reading published reports where an investigator has been given a lot of resources to figure something out and then writes up what they learned. In many countries it is illegal to lie to an investigator when they are investigating a crime, which means that someone can go around and just ask what happened, then share that and prosecute any unlawful behavior.
How countries deal with their own major human rights violations. I am somewhat interested in understanding things like how the Truth and Reconciliation process went in South Africa, and also how Germany has responded post WWII, where I think both really tried to reform to ensure that the same thing couldn’t happen again.
How companies investigate disasters. Sometimes a massive company will have a disaster or screw-up (e.g. the BP Oil Spill, the Boeing crashes, Johnson & Johnson Tylenol poisoning incident) and sometimes conduct serious investigations and try to fix the problem. I’d be interested in reading successful accounts there and how they went about finding the source of the problem and fixing it.
Religious reformations. The Protestant split was in response to a bunch of theological and pragmatic disagreements and also concerns of corruption (the clergy leading lavish lives). I’d prefer to not have a split and instead have a reform, I suspect there are other instances of major religious reform that went well that one can learn lessons from (of course also many to avoid).
None come to mind. (To be clear, this doesn’t seem cruxy for whether Effective Altruism has succeeded at reforming itself.)
I think instructive examples to look into would be things like:
How the justice system itself investigates crimes. I really like reading published reports where an investigator has been given a lot of resources to figure something out and then writes up what they learned. In many countries it is illegal to lie to an investigator when they are investigating a crime, which means that someone can go around and just ask what happened, then share that and prosecute any unlawful behavior.
How countries deal with their own major human rights violations. I am somewhat interested in understanding things like how the Truth and Reconciliation process went in South Africa, and also how Germany has responded post WWII, where I think both really tried to reform to ensure that the same thing couldn’t happen again.
How companies investigate disasters. Sometimes a massive company will have a disaster or screw-up (e.g. the BP Oil Spill, the Boeing crashes, Johnson & Johnson Tylenol poisoning incident) and sometimes conduct serious investigations and try to fix the problem. I’d be interested in reading successful accounts there and how they went about finding the source of the problem and fixing it.
Religious reformations. The Protestant split was in response to a bunch of theological and pragmatic disagreements and also concerns of corruption (the clergy leading lavish lives). I’d prefer to not have a split and instead have a reform, I suspect there are other instances of major religious reform that went well that one can learn lessons from (of course also many to avoid).