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Comment by Steven Byrnes

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AI safety researcher and author of research on brain-like AGI safety.
If you know how to make human-level AGI, then you can make it faster and you can make a million of them that are cooperating, and now you have superintelligence, but nothing about that necessarily involves any real amount of recursive self-improvement.
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Steven Byrnes, interview with Liron, “Interview with Steven Byrnes on His Mainline Takeoff Scenario,” March 10, 2026.
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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence
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AI Verified Quote explicitly says human-level AGI can be scaled to a million cooperating instances, yielding superintelligence. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 57min ago
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AI Verified Correct answer: for. Byrnes explicitly says human-level AGI can be multiplied into cooperating instances, producing superintelligence. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 57min ago

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AI Verified Verified verbatim in the LessWrong interview transcript (Steve 01:24:33); attributed to Steven Byrnes. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 57min ago
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