About
I research internal bottlenecks for people helping superintelligence go well:
I write at chrislakin.blog, and tweet @chrislakin.
Updated September 2026 from San Francisco.
Things I believe:
~ Local optimality / efficient markets / Chesterton’s Fence / safety ~
High-performers benefit more from unlearning than more learning
One of the biggest bottlenecks 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.
Courage is the bottleneck.
Being better at conflict, coordination, and independent thinking are virtues that will help rsi go better.
Getting what you want requires aiming at what you want (not what you don’t want!)
“Therapists”, “retreats”, and “coaches” are almost entirely for entertainment/ temporary relief. Proof: If their primary goal was long-term results, they would track long-term results.
Outside of work, I’ve…
lured my nyc gf to sf
Previously, I’ve worked on
physics at Carnegie Mellon
