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2026-06-10

My views on Chris Lakin

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• I think atleast some of Chris Lakin's life advice is valuable.
• I also think Chris Lakin has made a terrible decision to accept a significant fraction of his clientele and funding from the mass murderers working at the AI companies. This also makes me lose faith in his judgement on other topics atleast a little.
• My guess (without much evidence) is he believes in mistake theory and persuasion all the way down ("we can just persuade AI company CEOs to not build ASI") whereas I believe in direct conflict.
• I think I will avoid making a lot of detailed comments in public right now. Why?
  • Chris is not that famous or powerful yet.
  • I don't wanna unnecessarily make enemies of him.
  • I am busy.
  • See also: I will only persuade or criticise the powerful

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