Naomi Bashkansky ✓

@NaomiBashkansky · San Francisco · joined 09 May 2023

Building telepathy at https://t.co/UoSb602PeL. Chess WIM. Former OpenAI alignment researcher.

16 930Followers

150Following

36Posts total

4.2MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views40 535this account949median for 10K–100K

Reach, %239.43%this account3.23%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.56%this account2.00%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	40 535	949	42.7×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.4× audience	3.23%	74.1×
Engagement rate	0.56%	2.00%	0.28×

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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

654.6K1 Jun

28.3K

52K28 Jul

100.4K5 Aug

31.1K

1.5K6 Aug

800

40.5K11 Aug

11.5K

150.1K12 Aug

87.7K

Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.12%1 Jun

0.33%

0.56%28 Jul

0.73%5 Aug

0.40%

3.96%

0.54%6 Aug

0.40%

0.75%

0.15%11 Aug

0.67%

0.27%12 Aug

0.69%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.00%.

What the audience does

Likes52.9%12 562 in total

Reposts5.0%1 198 in total

Replies6.3%1 506 in total

Quotes4.7%1 105 in total

Bookmarks31.0%7 366 in total

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

Followers by day

5 Sep

Daily snapshots since 05 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

Want $50,000? The Orbit co-founders are running a fellowship, giving away $50k to several people building cool things (technical or non-technical). I have deep respect for Orbit, and expect they will pick interesting people. Apply or nominate people: https://t.co/AD7JVrSkuI ht 87.7K views · 534 likes · 46 reposts · 24 replies 12 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

a 10 minute application for a $50,000 fellowship. no strings. a total of $1,000,000 going out, towards making more magic in the world. presenting the Basis Fellowship. run by @markkhrapko ,@thewildstevenp , and spencer green https://t.co/Q1xxaWYmsK 150.1K views · 264 likes · 44 reposts · 64 replies 12 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

I'll be joining MTSlive at 2 pm today! Watch me talk about thought-to-text. What questions would you like answered? Relevant blog post: https://t.co/R7yXbiUvK7 11.5K views · 66 likes · 6 reposts · 5 replies 11 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

ANTHROPIC DOES BIO | RIVER AI | UK SOVEREIGN AI https://t.co/TpskRcwA0S 40.5K views · 46 likes · 1 reposts · 7 replies 11 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@NaomiBashkansky Every great technical endeavor can both help and harm people, but some harms are worse than others. You won't be able to control a mind-reading technology after you invent it; consider what it means when the worst person you can imagine gets a hold of it. 800 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 06 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@NaomiBashkansky I was excited, but after reading - I’m more worried than excited. Imagine if wild + unprocessed thoughts are executed by AI, without the refining process decision making requires - we are potentially a lot closer to a v/ dangerous world esp adding autonomous mo 2K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 06 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@NaomiBashkansky I immediately got anxiety reading this and then after my heart stopped racing realized that your cohesion of through is unlike mine. I don’t think linearly and information comes to me randomly, so I think I would find the interface disrupting disorienting. Does 1.5K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 06 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@NaomiBashkansky This will never not be invasive lol. You can't just put the words "non invasive" in front like the entire premise isn't invasive by any sane standard. What are you smoking? 31.1K views · 1.2K likes · 18 reposts · 21 replies 05 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Two weeks ago, I resigned from OpenAI to join Conduit as a founding researcher, where we're training models to non-invasively read the human mind. I've written some thoughts about what telepathy could look like by 2035 and how to get there: https://t.co/cat0d4My15 3M views · 8.9K likes · 944 reposts · 1.2K replies 05 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Full post: https://t.co/R7yXbiUvK7 100.4K views · 587 likes · 50 reposts · 70 replies 05 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

I signed. 52K views · 250 likes · 4 reposts · 36 replies 28 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

delighted to have helped, and so incredibly excited for what the Foundation will do for AI Resilience :) 28.3K views · 83 likes · 6 reposts · 3 replies 01 Jun 2026 · Open on X →

AI is advancing quickly. Society’s ability to manage its risks must advance just as fast. Today we’re sharing our vision for AI Resilience, with more than $130M in initial grants underway across bio-resilience, cyber-resilience, AI model safety, and AI’s impact on young people: 654.6K views · 619 likes · 79 reposts · 65 replies 01 Jun 2026 · Open on X →