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beyarkay (Boyd Kane)

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MATS 9 extension fellow with Alex Turner and Alex Cloud on Team Shard. Previously did embedded aerospace systems (I wrote code to make satellites spin real good), MSc in CS/​robotics, and repeat intern at AWS in Cape Town.

Currently trying to reduce x-risk in whatever way seems the most effective. Anonymous feedback: https://​​www.admonymous.co/​​beyarkay

Thoughts on in­ter­view­ing can­di­dates for AI safety fellowships

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)18 May 2026 15:28 UTC
36 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
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MATS 9 Ret­ro­spec­tive & Advice

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)15 May 2026 12:30 UTC
200 points
11 comments18 min readLW link
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An in­ter­ac­tive ver­sion of the ex­tropi­ans mailing list

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)18 Mar 2026 22:17 UTC
40 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Sched­ule meet­ings us­ing the Pareto principle

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)15 Mar 2026 21:18 UTC
2 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
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Where’s the $100k iPhone?

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)9 Jan 2026 23:48 UTC
33 points
32 comments4 min readLW link
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Us­ing Anki to mem­o­rise the names of the MATS 9 cohort

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)8 Jan 2026 4:41 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
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Com­pa­nies as “proto-ASI”

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)3 Jan 2026 0:24 UTC
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
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AI Safety has a scal­ing problem

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)19 Dec 2025 13:58 UTC
34 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Lawyers are uniquely well-placed to re­sist AI job automation

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)7 Dec 2025 16:28 UTC
18 points
19 comments2 min readLW link
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Books cover a larger idea-space than movies

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)26 Nov 2025 19:55 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
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HTTP402: mus­ings about an ad-free internet

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)25 Nov 2025 18:45 UTC
19 points
12 comments2 min readLW link
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If you can­not be good, at least be bad correctly

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)23 Nov 2025 17:51 UTC
17 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
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Sign lan­guage as a gen­er­ally-use­ful means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion (even if you have good hear­ing)

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)18 Nov 2025 18:34 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
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We live in the luck­iest timeline

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)12 Nov 2025 18:59 UTC
2 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
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The only im­por­tant ASI timeline

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)10 Nov 2025 4:53 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
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AI hasn’t seen wide­spread adop­tion be­cause the labs are fo­cus­ing on au­tomat­ing AI R&D

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)9 Nov 2025 14:02 UTC
10 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
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The EU could hold AI ca­pa­bil­ities de­vel­op­ment hostage if they wanted to

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)3 Nov 2025 16:54 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
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Why your boss isn’t wor­ried about AI

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)14 Oct 2025 17:58 UTC
12 points
3 comments6 min readLW link
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Ex­perts have it easy

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)12 Apr 2025 19:32 UTC
25 points
3 comments9 min readLW link
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