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

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MATS 9 Retrospective & Advice

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)15 May 2026 12:30 UTC

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An interactive version of the extropians mailing list

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)18 Mar 2026 22:17 UTC

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Schedule meetings using the Pareto principle

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)15 Mar 2026 21:18 UTC

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Where’s the $100k iPhone?

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)9 Jan 2026 23:48 UTC

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Using Anki to memorise the names of the MATS 9 cohort

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)8 Jan 2026 4:41 UTC

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Companies as “proto-ASI”

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)3 Jan 2026 0:24 UTC

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AI Safety has a scaling problem

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)19 Dec 2025 13:58 UTC

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Lawyers are uniquely well-placed to resist AI job automation

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)7 Dec 2025 16:28 UTC

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Books cover a larger idea-space than movies

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)26 Nov 2025 19:55 UTC

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HTTP402: musings about an ad-free internet

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)25 Nov 2025 18:45 UTC

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If you cannot be good, at least be bad correctly

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)23 Nov 2025 17:51 UTC

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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

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We live in the luckiest timeline

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)12 Nov 2025 18:59 UTC

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The only important ASI timeline

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)10 Nov 2025 4:53 UTC

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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

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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

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Why your boss isn’t worried about AI

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)14 Oct 2025 17:58 UTC

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Experts have it easy

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)12 Apr 2025 19:32 UTC

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