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@QiaochuYuan · Bellevue, WA · joined 09 Jul 2018

deeply unqualified AI hot take haver but everyone who's actually qualified is busy

40 106Followers
681Following
76 064Posts total
265.9KViews 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 views8 503this account1 045median for 10K–100K
Reach, %21.20%this account3.41%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.23%this account2.02%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post8 5031 0458.14×
Reach (views ÷ followers)21.20%3.41%6.22×
Engagement rate1.23%2.02%0.61×

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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

19.3K2 Jul
52.6K3 Sep
47K
22.1K5 Sep
95.4K
3.8K
8.5K
1.7K
4K
6.2K
5.2K

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.36%2 Jul
0.17%3 Sep
0.87%
0.80%5 Sep
1.23%
1.57%
0.34%
0.69%
2.10%
2.29%
1.41%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.02%.

What the audience does

Likes74.0%2 412 in total
Reposts3.4%110 in total
Replies4.9%161 in total
Quotes0.7%22 in total
Bookmarks17.0%555 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

apropos of nothing in particular we're coming up on the 5-year anniversary of the torment nexus tweet. did you know it has its own fairly extensive wikipedia article https://t.co/sqpla1JssF https://t.co/2IYGl4kzHs 5.2K views · 72 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
still *labored breathing* within *gasping for air* my comprehension *slaps face* so far 6.2K views · 134 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
@QiaochuYuan you know that human neurons can be rented for 2000 a month to run code on at cortical labs right? ... this has been going on for a while.... and on the one hand its very cool for future BCI, but on the other hand, there is a serious ethical concern in that cortical a 4K views · 78 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
@QiaochuYuan What I don’t get is how are they even able to verify it’s working properly? the environment it’s being simulated in is a much lower version of our reality. There’s no simulated grass, trees, light, smells, molecules, atomic particles. It’s a very low information envi 1.7K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
the reason i label all my polls with “poll:” btw is that afaict twitter search has no option to filter searches for polls specifically. so this is my hacky workaround https://t.co/AUsyOpDtPF 8.5K views · 27 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
@QiaochuYuan Good news we're also doing worse things in parallel https://t.co/k9wHdhUmUd 3.8K views · 59 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
i feel viscerally very weird about this, much weirder than i've ever felt about LLMs. we're obviously not going to stop at fruit flies 95.4K views · 1.1K likes · 34 reposts · 36 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
poll: is the fruit fly uploaded into minecraft capable of suffering 22.1K views · 92 likes · 9 reposts · 68 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
re: the discussion of soft-pedaling in this post, i should clarify that as a non-expert observer, despite being an ex-rationalist i am still extremely worried and pessimistic about AI risk. i have mostly not been talking directly about this because frankly i decided it was bad 47K views · 368 likes · 19 reposts · 19 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
https://t.co/rdCBme5Deu 52.6K views · 75 likes · 8 reposts · 8 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
idk the man made horrors are still within my comprehension so far 19.3K views · 402 likes · 30 reposts · 21 replies 02 Jul 2026 · Open on X →
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus 0 views · 115.4K likes · 30.7K reposts · 298 replies 08 Nov 2021 · Open on X →

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