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gergo

1232 karmaJoined Budapest, Kelenföld, Magyarország

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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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Also: If your project also applies to AI Safety, I would flag that in the title, as there are many people in AIS who are not associated with EA

Exciting project! IQuick recommendations:

  • Putting out a short form where people can get in touch with you and share their basic information (in my experience, it's actually lower friction than sending a DM),
  • Sharing a bit more on what you expect from volunteers in terms of time commitment
  • Having an internal/external directory where people can sign up with some proof that they have gotten far in some hiring rounds
  • Reaching out to various directories. In their internal systems, they often flag people who made it far in hiring rounds. Same with hiring managers for orgs.

Thanks for sharing!

One of my first interviewers did a 1-hour interview, after which he (rightly) did not continue the process. He explained very clearly why and what skills I was missing. He also set up an additional call where he talked through how my skill-set might be most valuable within an impactful role, and some ideas. He gave me lots of connections to people he knew. And so on. And he offered to help if I needed help. 

This is great practice; however, I believe it happens only in a minority of cases. Typically, people who are filtered out early receive an email stating they can't receive individual feedback. Given this, I recommend that if someone makes it far enough to be invited to an interview, ask for feedback at the end of the meeting before concluding. It's better than sending an email after a decision has been made. 

Alternatively, if you encounter the hiring manager at a conference, consider reaching out. However, if the interview was some time ago, don't expect them to remember, as they’ve likely conducted hundreds since then.

I mostly felt the lack of context limiting in the early days when I was actually trying to gain more context.

Strongly agree, once you "have your foot in the door" its much easier to get additional context as you know where to look for it. 

Thanks for sharing your experience!

Thanks for expanding! I appreciate the distinction between "language" and "concepts" as well as your thoughts on using language for in-group signaling and too much in-group hiring.

To follow up on this:

it's not important to me that people know a lot about in-group language, people, or events around AI safety

I can see that people and events are less important, but as far as concepts go, I presume it would be important for them to know at least some of the terms, such as x/s risk, moral patienthood, recursive self-improvement, take-off speed, etc.

As far as I know, really none of these are widely known outside of the AIS community, or do you mean something else by in-group language?

Yeah I agree about this case, I will actually take it out!

thanks for flagging, I fixed it now!

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