Open Phil only has so much energy and cognitive diversity to spend evaluating your project, and if you project is too weird for that, they just can’t fund it. Instead, you can donate/work/volunteer for weird projects yourself, and convince others on the forum to do the same. There are even other billionaires out there, and ways to get your charter cities or whatever without enormous philanthropic funding. If you’re the only one who believes, maybe you need to bet.
Open Phil only has so much energy and cognitive diversity to spend evaluating your project, and if you project is too weird for that, they just can’t fund it. Instead, you can donate/work/volunteer for weird projects yourself, and convince others on the forum to do the same. There are even other billionaires out there, and ways to get your charter cities or whatever without enormous philanthropic funding. If you’re the only one who believes, maybe you need to bet.