My name is Gergő, and my academic background is in psychology. I’m the director at the European Network for AI Safety and founder of Amplify, a marketing agency dedicated to helping fieldbuilding projects. My journey into communitybuilding started in 2019 with organising EA meetups on a volunteer basis.
I started doing full-time paid work in CB in 2021, when I founded an EA club at my university (it wasn’t supposed to be full-time at least at the beginning, but you know how it is). This grew into a city group and eventually into a national group called EA Hungary. We also spun out an AIS group in 2022, which I’m still leading. AIS Hungary is one of the few AIS groups that have 2+ FTE working for them.
Previously I was a volunteer charity analyst and analysis coordinator for SoGive, an experience I think of fondly and I’m grateful for. I have also done some academic research in psychology.
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Chris, I think you made some great additional suggestions. I also agree that that AISC shouldn't try to compete with on the prestige front too much, and they complement each other nicely with SPAR that takes a more top-down approach and only(?) hosts established researches as leads.
I'm definitely post my writings on the forum! (one can just cross-post from substack)
It seems to me that for your topics, there are much stronger reasons to stay on the forum than for leaving it: I suppose you'll get more readers; it will be more convenient for said readers; there's a good comments system; the audio transcription; there are previous of within-forum links; and probably other important things I'm forgetting.
(super interested to hear what was in favor of Substack! :) )
hey! Sorry, I missed this until now.
Quick question: why not write on the EA Forum?
Thanks for this question, I realize it's worth clarifying what I mean exactly: I think there are a lot of valuable conversations happening that never end up being shared on the forum, even though they should be. I think this is because 1) lack of time 2) small demand (there are not that many fieldbuilders) and 3) and potential authors worrying about how the author is going to be perceived if they share their thoughts without much filtering. (e.g. it is easy to come across as elitist when talking about CB, and it takes a lot of time to explain a nuanced take on these issues)
Thanks for expanding on this, Adam!
Groups want something weird or custom about their courses [...] if they were okay with something standard their members could just take our standard courses.
I'm not sure I agree with this, as AIS collab has done this kind of coordination before, afaik with relatively universal courses. While they might have a preference for customisation, I think most would be willing to compromise for the benefits they get in return, especially if they weren't able to put on their own course otherwise. Whether to let groups who participate do in person sessions is something I'm indeed uncertain about though. For groups that feel very strongly about customization, it is better to just run their own version.
Most group leaders should probably think more carefully about the time trade-offs of getting more things 80% right rather than few things 99% right.
I agree with this and essentially everything else you have shared in the rest of the comment.
What's the deadline to apply? :)