Richard Ngo ✓

@RichardMCNgo · Berkeley, CA · joined 26 Oct 2009

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92 707Followers

2 174Following

12 120Posts total

320.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views14 853this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %16.02%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.25%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	14 853	2 751	5.40×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	16.02%	9.00%	1.78×
Engagement rate	1.25%	1.65%	0.76×

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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

178.3K18 Jul

14.5K14 Jun

79.1K26 Aug

5.7K29 Aug

15.2K

24.2K30 Aug

3.3K3 Sep

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

0.48%18 Jul

0.34%14 Jun

0.98%26 Aug

1.54%29 Aug

1.42%

1.08%30 Aug

1.89%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes71.2%2 044 in total

Reposts3.9%112 in total

Replies4.5%128 in total

Quotes0.9%26 in total

Bookmarks19.6%562 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

The best time to plant a tree will be once we engineer them for a 10x growth rate guided by artificial nerves embedded in their vascular systems. Timeline very up for grabs, if someone great starts now they could plausibly create something magical within a decade. 3.3K views · 59 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. Now, there's no point. 24.2K views · 235 likes · 5 reposts · 14 replies 30 Aug 2026 Alas, the institutions are declining for reasons closely related to why timelines are accelerating—because our civilization has lost much of its ability to coordinate to achieve sensible goals. That’s the main thing I recommend people have feelings about (then help fix). 15.2K views · 188 likes · 11 reposts · 15 replies 29 Aug 2026 Young ontologies can be destroyed by mean-spirited applications of the truth, but usually shouldn’t be. 5.7K views · 74 likes · 8 reposts · 6 replies 29 Aug 2026 By this point almost everyone working at OpenAI or Anthropic (except perhaps a dozen executives) should be viewed as cogs letting themselves be turned by ideological forces. When you’re in proximity to that much power, one of your main moral duties is not to be a cog. 79.1K views · 724 likes · 30 reposts · 14 replies 26 Aug 2026 The more you think that the political situation in the West is worsening or that its institutions are in decline, the less bad you should feel about accelerating AI timelines - since it means powerful AI will arrive in a time of more stability and competence. 14.5K views · 42 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies 14 Jun 2026 I increasingly believe that there are fundamental principles which simultaneously govern the designs of well-functioning minds, organizations and societies. Once we pin them down with mathematical precision, we’ll understand the world more deeply than we can currently imagine. 178.3K views · 722 likes · 54 reposts · 75 replies 18 Jul 2024