Paul Christiano (from privet email, with the permission to quote):
Basically just a lack of time, and a desire to focus on my core projects. I’d be supportive of other people making impact purchases or similar efforts work, I hope our foray into the space doesn’t discourage anyone.
II) Justin Shovelain told me (and gave me permission to share this information) that he would probably have focused more on Coronavirus stuff early on, if he though there where a way to get paid for this work.
This is another type of situation where grants are too slow.
Some more additions:
I) I found out what happened to impactpurchase.org
Paul Christiano (from privet email, with the permission to quote):
II) Justin Shovelain told me (and gave me permission to share this information) that he would probably have focused more on Coronavirus stuff early on, if he though there where a way to get paid for this work.
This is another type of situation where grants are too slow.