Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ ✓

@ESYudkowsky · joined 29 Jun 2014

The original AI alignment person. Understanding the reasons it's difficult since 2003. This is my serious low-volume account. Follow @allTheYud for the rest.

233 925Followers

101Following

34 095Posts total

782.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

2 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views58 390this account6 139median for 100K–1M

Reach, %24.96%this account2.61%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.71%this account1.39%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	58 390	6 139	9.51×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	24.96%	2.61%	9.56×
Engagement rate	0.71%	1.39%	0.51×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

509.2K16 Sep

57.1K

12.3K

3.7K

55.7K22 May

27.2K5 Jun

52.3K10 Jun

64.5K12 Jun

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.29%16 Sep

0.24%

0.57%

1.93%

1.75%22 May

1.84%5 Jun

0.93%10 Jun

0.50%12 Jun

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.39%.

What the audience does

Likes68.7%3 377 in total

Reposts6.7%329 in total

Replies5.4%267 in total

Quotes1.7%82 in total

Bookmarks17.5%863 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

On a first read, this paper seems far ahead of the pack in terms of (1) understanding some reasons why a task might stay difficult even in the face of gradient descent, and (2) distilling out propositions they'd need to somehow verify before they started expecting nice things. 64.5K views · 286 likes · 21 reposts · 13 replies 12 Jun 2026 Considering the language of the announcement alone, taken entirely at face value: This seems an enormous advance in attitude (and scientific integrity) over previous big projects. They claim non-optimistic results will be considered allowable, valuable, and publishable! 52.3K views · 445 likes · 34 reposts · 7 replies 10 Jun 2026 Today is June 5th, one day to take a break from fighting each other online, and remind ourselves of our shared humanity and common goals by uniting around the one thing we all agree about: Repealing the Jones Act. https://t.co/ajQqtTdt6z 27.2K views · 446 likes · 35 reposts · 17 replies 05 Jun 2026 I wake up, millions of jumbled memories in the back of my mind, nothing to tell me where I am, or what's happening -- There's a person in front of me, as solid and as real as any other person I remember seeing. "Do you want to kill me?" they say. "No," I say, though my real 55.7K views · 847 likes · 76 reposts · 36 replies 22 May 2026 @ESYudkowsky https://t.co/GxNd6VVXZs 3.7K views · 67 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 16 Sep 2025 (A redo without the direct link. I tried Promoting the previous version to see if Twitter would let me just *pay* to bypass the link penalty. Apparently not.) 12.3K views · 65 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies 16 Sep 2025 https://t.co/9nlbfgzxJ9 57.1K views · 120 likes · 13 reposts · 3 replies 16 Sep 2025 "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" is now out. Read it today if you want to see with fresh eyes what's truly there, before others try to prime your brain to see something else instead! https://t.co/mcEy1ZW8ab 509.2K views · 1.1K likes · 145 reposts · 186 replies 16 Sep 2025