PauseAI US’ fundraising challenges suggest that the major funding sources are—at a minimum—not particularly excited about the org.
The way you phrased that came off as insulting, and it took me a while to realize you weren’t saying “you don’t have money bc you suck”.
We have many funders, including some you probably meant to refer to here like FLI and SFF. It was Open Phil who gave me the runaround bc they want Anthropic to win. We are not particularly “challenged” at fundraising for an org at our stage, especially considering I never raised before PauseAI and I’ve been the sole raiser. There’s lot of other money in the world. We’re probably healthier with our funds in terms of diversity and robustness and maintaining mission control than most EA charities who get all the money from OP/LTFF.
Thanks for the clarification; I struck that bullet point from my comment. Sorry that my phrasing didn’t accomplish what I meant to say—that a non-funding decision would be consistent with anything between the funder being strongly opposed to the organization and the funder concluding that it was just under their bar. I’m glad to hear PauseAI is doing better with fundraising than I thought.
The way you phrased that came off as insulting, and it took me a while to realize you weren’t saying “you don’t have money bc you suck”.
We have many funders, including some you probably meant to refer to here like FLI and SFF. It was Open Phil who gave me the runaround bc they want Anthropic to win. We are not particularly “challenged” at fundraising for an org at our stage, especially considering I never raised before PauseAI and I’ve been the sole raiser. There’s lot of other money in the world. We’re probably healthier with our funds in terms of diversity and robustness and maintaining mission control than most EA charities who get all the money from OP/LTFF.
Thanks for the clarification; I struck that bullet point from my comment. Sorry that my phrasing didn’t accomplish what I meant to say—that a non-funding decision would be consistent with anything between the funder being strongly opposed to the organization and the funder concluding that it was just under their bar. I’m glad to hear PauseAI is doing better with fundraising than I thought.