The first discussion meeting of the semester is happening on Thursday, January 26th from 17:30-18:30 in room M3-37A of McLennan Library. The discussion aims to analyse the structure of funding and spending in Effective Altruism. For some background on the FTX situation, check out this post.
Please read the following to prepare for the discussion:
IMPCO, don't injure yourself by returning FTXFF money for services you already provided by Eliezer Yudkowsky
The EA community does not own its donors' money by Nick Whitaker
Free-spending EA might be a big problem for optics and epistemics by George Rosenfeld
Some questions to think about:
Assuming that it is not legally required, should CEA's FTX money be used or returned to FTX?
In an ideal world, how would EA funds be controlled and distributed?
Following the post by Rosenfeld, read the comment posted by @evhub. How do these arguments affect your opinion?