I want to draw attention to the fact that “Kerry Vaughan” is a brand new account that has made exactly three comments, all of them on this thread. “Kerry Vaughan” is associated with Leverage. “Kerry Vaughan”’s use of “they” to describe Leverage is deliberately misleading.
To be fair, KV was open about that association in both previous comments, using ‘we’ in the first and including this disclaimer in the second --
(I currently work at Leverage research but did not work at Leverage during Leverage 1.0 (although I interacted with Leverage 1.0 and know many of the people involved). Before working at Leverage I did EA community building at CEA between Summer 2014 and early 2019.)
-- which also seems to explain the use of ‘they’ in KV’s third comment, which referred specifically to “Leverage 1.0”.
(I hope this goes without saying on LW, but I don’t mean this as a general defense of Leverage or of KV’s opinions. I know nothing about either beyond what I’ve read here, and I haven’t even read all the relevant comments. Personally I wouldn’t get involved with an organisation like Leverage.)
To be fair, KV was open about that association in both previous comments, using ‘we’ in the first and including this disclaimer in the second --
-- which also seems to explain the use of ‘they’ in KV’s third comment, which referred specifically to “Leverage 1.0”.
(I hope this goes without saying on LW, but I don’t mean this as a general defense of Leverage or of KV’s opinions. I know nothing about either beyond what I’ve read here, and I haven’t even read all the relevant comments. Personally I wouldn’t get involved with an organisation like Leverage.)