I’m an AGI safety /​ AI alignment researcher in Boston with a particular focus on brain algorithms. Research Fellow at Astera. 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, X/​Twitter, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and more at my website.