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@PessimistsArc · joined 19 Oct 2015

Fear of new things in the past. History of resistance to new technologies & ideas. Curated by @louisanslow NEWSLETTER: https://t.co/ICDLE3Wrbm

96 133Followers
297Following
12 071Posts total
25KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Dario said it was too dangerous to release, then two promethean graduate students released it anyway. https://t.co/A2GCXh2Oiv https://t.co/ETJ1Vvb1pI
1.6K views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
This really ought to be mentioned with any interview of Dario related to AI risk. 2.3K views · 21 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
@PessimistsArc https://t.co/cv1d9NEvfh We released an open replication before OpenAI released their official model weights. 3K views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
DooMoore's law https://t.co/XyxJTNfNgh
5.4K views · 102 likes · 16 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →
The history of nuclear technology shows that even with global binding treaties, hysterical fear of a new technology can rob us of critical upsides that make the future more dangerous. https://t.co/WLWBGSSTt9
5.4K views · 24 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
A good faith comparison between AI and nuclear technology wouldn’t just talk about the success of concern driven non-proliferation treaties and the risk they reduced, it would talk about the concern driven failure of nuclear energy regulation and the risk that increased. 3.5K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Powerful new technologies are often victim of an ‘emergent conspiracy’ of opposition. Protectionists will emphasize real or imagined downsides of disruptive tech. Publishers will run stories about them. Politicians will propose laws to address + elicit protectionist support. 3.8K views · 28 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views3 512this account991median for 10K–100K
Reach, %3.65%this account3.67%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.55%this account1.61%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post3 5129913.54×
Reach (views ÷ followers)3.65%3.67%1.00×
Engagement rate0.55%1.61%0.34×

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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

3.8K11 Sep
3.5K13 Sep
5.4K
5.4K
3K
2.3K
1.6K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.89%11 Sep
0.17%13 Sep
0.55%
2.25%
0.17%
1.17%
0.31%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.61%.

What the audience does

Likes74.9%188 in total
Reposts13.5%34 in total
Replies2.4%6 in total
Bookmarks9.2%23 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.

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