About
What’s stopping ASI researchers from having more impact?
I research how superintelligence researchers can have more impact by removing internal bottlenecks:
I write at chrislakin.blog, and tweet @chrislakin.
Things I believe:
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
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)
High-performers benefit more from unlearning than more learning
People are ~default-happy
How to succeed: 1) avoid copying failure; 2) attempt to copy success
Few people succeed when attempting ‘DIY brain surgery’
Outside of work, I
Previously, I worked on
physics at Carnegie Mellon
Updated August 2026 from San Francisco.
