What's stopping superintelligence researchers from having more impact?
Researchers:
Coauthor of the Emergent Misalignment paper, Daniel Tan, used to get burnout lasting weeks or months, but not since our eight sessions one year ago. Later he told me he gained ~5h/day after losing interest in doomscrolling; he’s used the time to host events for friends instead.
Founding engineer went from burned out and planning his leave to working again in two months. He also shared feedback he’d been withholding and nudged the direction of his company when the founders acted on it.
Frontier lab researcher went from avoiding conflict with respected colleagues to challenging them. 18mo later he still does this, and is in charge of his own team.
Pricing is mostly outcome-based and forbidden until your genuine satisfaction with results. We will align my incentives with improvements to both your long-term impact and quality of life. Usually paid by your company.
Impact (eg): having more independent takes, working on more ambitious projects, sharing more write-ups, disagreeing with colleagues, promotions, raising greater amounts of capital, not getting burned out.
QoL (eg): consistently feeling like you did before burning out, knowing what you want, fulfilling relationships, regaining daily time lost to doomscrolling and other addictions.
To learn your bottleneck(s), we start with a diagnostic.
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