About
What’s limiting ASI people’s impact?
I research internal bottlenecks for ASI people and offer both evals and unlearning:
I write at chrislakin.blog, and tweet @chrislakin.
Things I believe:
~ Local optimality / efficient markets / Chesterton’s Fence / safety ~
Big bottleneck to the future going well is “powerful people being emotionally healthy enough that they actually contribute to the things they think they care about” —Richard Ngo → Coordination
If you want long-term results… track long-term results!
Getting what you want requires aiming at what you want (rather than what you don’t want)
“Coaches” and “therapists” almost entirely in the entertainment business for temporary relief—as opposed to consulting for long-term impact. Almost everyone is confused about this.
How to succeed: 1) avoid copying failure; 2) attempt to copy success
High-performers benefit more from unlearning than more learning
Outside of work
I spend time with Ha, who just moved to SF:
Previously, I worked on
physics at Carnegie Mellon
Updated September 2026 from San Francisco.
