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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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We are currently waiting on a grant decision from LTFF. I think sending people to EA Brussels makes sense for now, they have a contact email on the website or you can send them directly to Tom if you know him, (I can also) share his contact. If you think that the person you run into could be promising for fieldbuilding, consider referring them to our EOI form! :)
I think this roughly makes sense?
A crux here would be whether you think there are enough people and funding going to the most important opportunities/directions of work.
OP has a lot of money, but they are not funding everything. If you think they cover almost everything important then that is there is a stronger case for direct work (e.g. try to get a grant from them)
You should also think about how confident you are that you can spend your own money effectively. Are you planning to choose projects to fund yourself? Will you defer to LTFF? How much do you trust the judgement of their evaluators compared to yours in knowing what's important?
You should likely explore high-absorbancy career paths (e.g., fieldbuilding, comms) as well, as the ones you refer to in the post seem to be low-absorbancy.
Thanks for writing this up!
For those interested in AIS, aisafety.com has a list of advisors to whom you can talk.