There are two broad groups we targeted. One was relevant classes; e.g. anything dealing with ethics, Peter Singer, etc. We would approach professors and ask permission to pitch our group to the class at a relevant point in the curriculum.
The other was other student groups. IIRC, we went to a local LW meetup (which only met once) and the Stanford Transhumanist Society, and had a joint Skype call to Rob Mather with Stanford’s chapter of Resource Generation. (There are likely others I’m forgetting about.) For the first two, we just showed up at meetings; for Resource Generation, it was a joint event arranged with their leadership.
The partnership with Resource Generation hasn’t been very fruitful so far—I think only one person from there showed up to Rob Mather’s talk.
I would add to this that we got two new regular members from a Slate Star Codex meetup. One recruiting strategy may be to try to get Scott Alexander to come to your school and host a meetup.
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There are two broad groups we targeted. One was relevant classes; e.g. anything dealing with ethics, Peter Singer, etc. We would approach professors and ask permission to pitch our group to the class at a relevant point in the curriculum.
The other was other student groups. IIRC, we went to a local LW meetup (which only met once) and the Stanford Transhumanist Society, and had a joint Skype call to Rob Mather with Stanford’s chapter of Resource Generation. (There are likely others I’m forgetting about.) For the first two, we just showed up at meetings; for Resource Generation, it was a joint event arranged with their leadership.
The partnership with Resource Generation hasn’t been very fruitful so far—I think only one person from there showed up to Rob Mather’s talk.
I would add to this that we got two new regular members from a Slate Star Codex meetup. One recruiting strategy may be to try to get Scott Alexander to come to your school and host a meetup.
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