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Steven Byrnes

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Hi I’m Steve Byrnes, an AGI safety /​ AI alignment researcher in Boston, MA, USA, with a particular focus on brain algorithms. See https://​​sjbyrnes.com/​​agi.html for a summary of my research and sorted list of writing. Physicist by training. Email: steven.byrnes@gmail.com. Leave me anonymous feedback here. I’m also at: RSS feed , Twitter , Mastodon , Threads , Bluesky , GitHub , Wikipedia , Physics-StackExchange , LinkedIn

Munk AI de­bate: con­fu­sions and pos­si­ble cruxes

Steven Byrnes27 Jun 2023 15:01 UTC
142 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Chang­ing the world through slack & hobbies

Steven Byrnes21 Jul 2022 18:01 UTC
129 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

“X dis­tracts from Y” as a thinly-dis­guised fight over group sta­tus /​ politics

Steven Byrnes25 Sep 2023 15:29 UTC
89 points
9 comments8 min readEA link

What does it take to defend the world against out-of-con­trol AGIs?

Steven Byrnes25 Oct 2022 14:47 UTC
43 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Some (prob­le­matic) aes­thet­ics of what con­sti­tutes good work in academia

Steven Byrnes11 Mar 2024 17:47 UTC
43 points
2 comments1 min readEA link