But you expect that small amounts of cutting corners quickly snowball into large amounts.
I don’t expect the existing organizations to get more sloppy.
I expect more sloppy organizations to join the EA ecosystem… and be welcome to waste the resources and burn out people (and not produce much actual value in return), because the red flags will be misinterpreted as a sign of being awesome.
I am not sure if this will result in a bimodal distribution, but expect that there will be some boring organizations that do their accounting properly and also cure malaria, and some exciting organizations that will do a lot of yachting and hot tub karaoke parties… and when things blow up no one will be able to figure out how many employees they actually had and whether they actually paid them according to the contract which doesn’t even exist on paper… because everyone was like “wow, these guys are thinking and acting so much out-of-the-box that they are certainly the geniuses who will save the world” when actually there were just some charismatic guys who probably meant good but didn’t think too hard about it.
I don’t expect the existing organizations to get more sloppy.
I expect more sloppy organizations to join the EA ecosystem… and be welcome to waste the resources and burn out people (and not produce much actual value in return), because the red flags will be misinterpreted as a sign of being awesome.
I am not sure if this will result in a bimodal distribution, but expect that there will be some boring organizations that do their accounting properly and also cure malaria, and some exciting organizations that will do a lot of yachting and hot tub karaoke parties… and when things blow up no one will be able to figure out how many employees they actually had and whether they actually paid them according to the contract which doesn’t even exist on paper… because everyone was like “wow, these guys are thinking and acting so much out-of-the-box that they are certainly the geniuses who will save the world” when actually there were just some charismatic guys who probably meant good but didn’t think too hard about it.