Pathfinder / funder / opportunities / The legibility trap: how "fund the most rigorous thinkers" can quietly select for the wrong people
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This EA Forum post scores 89/100 on composite fit because it demonstrates thesis alignment with civic infrastructure (1.0 thesis_fit) through a rigorous critique of philanthropic capital allocation backed by ten years deploying $700M at Google.org, founder credentialing (1.0) via Harvard degrees and senior tech-operator experience, and strong peer signal (0.7) from direct Open Philanthropy collaboration on $130M+ criminal justice work. The author proposes measurable reforms treating proximity as an expected-value input, funding RCTs of participatory grantmaking, defining "bridgers" via four operational traits that map to Funder's interest in systems that surface overlooked high-proximity organizations, though raise stage drops to 0.5 because this is a published argument rather than an active fundraising entity.