About
What’s stopping superintelligence researchers from having more impact?
My research focuses on unlearning internal bottlenecks for people who affect frontier AI:
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” —@RichardMCNgo
If you want long-term results… you should track long-term results damn it
Getting what you want requires aiming at what you 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 succeed when attempting to do DIY brain surgery; the failures outweigh the gains
Outside of work, I
Previously, I worked on
physics at Carnegie Mellon
Updated June 2026 from San Francisco.
