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gergo

Director @ EA UK
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Bio

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.

Currently leading EA UK.

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Building Capacity
Experiments in Local Community Building

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Your donations matter, but your colleague’s even more
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It was interesting to read how explicit you are about being associated with EA, as many organisations (incl. in the giving space) are moving away from this.

We initially propsed to pitch that the principles of effective altruism allure to most employee’s background

first time for colleagues to hear about effective altruism principles.

Why do you think this worked for you? One reason this worked is that you seem to highlight the principles as opposed to the movement itself?

Great work!

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EA orgs overhire comms and underhire growth
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if you DM me your whatsapp number I can add you :)

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EA orgs overhire comms and underhire growth
gergo2
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RIP, EA comms slack!

There is a whatsapp group now!

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The Field Building Blog is now called Building Capacity
gergo2
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Haha thanks for the reminder, added it as a hyperlink now x)

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Masterdoc of EA community building resources (EA Syllabi Collection)
gergo2
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Just saw that this is still being updated, as of early 2026. How amazing!

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Announcing Impact First (We’re Hiring)
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Alicia is great, working with her on building this organisation sounds like a great opportunty. I hope you get a lot of applications!

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How to Improve EA's Presence on YouTube
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Thanks for writing this up, great post!

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Against (most) community retreats (FBB #12)
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The example of the student is if fair, but my claim is that you can get those effects in cheaper ways than a retreat. For any given community retreat, only a couple people will attend with profiles for which it's realistic that a retreat can help them get a role (see my point about retreats having too low of a bar). I would want to support these in other ways.

I'm worried though that the scale is too small to power an RCT. But I do like your idea on that we should try to measure the effectiveness of these interventions more rigorously!

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Against (most) community retreats (FBB #12)
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Maybe I misunderstood, but if retreats and conferences/summits are complements, this argument should not apply?

They might be complementary, but most communities don't have the resources to do both. (Unless they are a year apart, at which point any momentum you get fades).

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