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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I definitely agree that quality is more important than quantity; perhaps I could have made that clearer. My point is that with marketing, you can get a lot of talented people. If you are running a general course, you probably couldn’t only attract people who are in the 99th percentile, but you will get some, which makes the whole endeavour worth it (you can also try your best to filter out less promising people depending on your bar and ability to take participants)