About
What’s stopping ASI researchers and leaders from having better impact?
To help superintelligence leaders and researchers have more positive impact, I assess internal bottlenecks and research how they get removed:
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” are mainly in the entertainment business for temporary relief, not long-term results
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:
Previously, I worked on
physics at Carnegie Mellon
Updated September 2026 from San Francisco.
