Boyd's Blog
About Me I like writing about expertise, using computers to solve problems, and bringing novel ideas into existence.
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- 35 from 1 Jan 2024 to 8 Oct 2026
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- weekly (26 in the last year)
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- personal blog
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2026 22
- Common LLM failure modes
- Essays
- How to apply to AI safety fellowships (and beyond)
- Where are the token-level LLM kill-switches?
- LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
- AI Safety has a scaling problem
- Advice on interviewing candidates for AI safety fellowships
- Schedule meetings using the Pareto principle
- Public evidence of the OpenAI/HuggingFace AI attack
- What if AI Safety employees unionised?
- Extropians Archive (with OpenAI embeddings)
- Summary of alarming AI safety findings
- Work in progress: expert_aesthetics.md
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- MATS 9 Retrospective & Advice
- Public Comment: Draft South Africa National AI Policy (March 2026)
- Card Game Builder
- Writing every day in November 2025
- What am I working on?
- Where's the $100k iPhone?
- Using Anki to memorise the names of the MATS 9 cohort
- Companies as proto-ASI
2025 11
- Definitions
- The Provenance Protocol
- Why your boss isn't worried about AI
- Downloaded more for business, or pleasure?
- TikTok Scraper
- Eskom-calendar: solving a nation-wide blackout
- YAML for the haters
- Ideas
- Elevation maps
- GitHub-like activity graphs in your terminal
- ListenToAnything.com: listen to your reading list