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I love the format, but I also have to voice one concern. Having to judge a potentially large number of brief proposals in a rather quick manner with a small team might entail that the eminence of the applicants ends up being used as a significant decisive factor (e.g., well-established persons at elite institutions in the US/UK or known EA organizations having a significantly better chance).
While such a bias might partially be rational, the resulting Matthew effect ('the rich get richer') would also have negative consequences. There are d...
There should also be more transparency about how funding decisions are made, now that very substantial budgets are available. We don't want to find out at some point that many funding decisions have been made on less-than-objective grounds.
EA funding has reached a level where 'evaluating evaluations' should soon become an important project.