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Richard Sutton

@RichardSSutton · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · joined 22 Oct 2010

Student of mind and nature, libertarian, chess player, cancer survivor. @ https://t.co/pioQVVjSXz, UAlberta, amii, https://t.co/vPRUv44glx, The Royal Society, Turing Award

70 022Followers
59Following
456Posts total
688.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views24 812this account2 968median for 10K–100K
Reach, %35.43%this account9.18%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.50%this account1.42%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post24 8122 9688.36×
Reach (views ÷ followers)35.43%9.18%3.86×
Engagement rate0.50%1.42%0.35×

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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

298.4K20 Jul
6.8K
146.2K19 Jun
3.8K13 Jul
50.9K13 Aug
48.5K22 Aug
21.5K23 Aug
19.9K24 Aug
50.4K
13.5K25 Aug
28.1K

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

0.45%20 Jul
0.76%
0.06%19 Jun
1.09%13 Jul
0.14%13 Aug
1.07%22 Aug
0.10%23 Aug
0.49%24 Aug
0.47%
0.52%25 Aug
0.83%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.42%.

What the audience does

Likes67.6%2 295 in total
Reposts8.3%280 in total
Replies5.1%173 in total
Quotes1.1%36 in total
Bookmarks17.9%609 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

3 Sep

Daily snapshots since 03 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

1964. 28.1K views · 214 likes · 8 reposts · 11 replies 25 Aug 2026 1863! 13.5K views · 64 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies 25 Aug 2026 Beautiful and haunting prescience. Give it a read in full and sit with it for some time. "we find ourselves almost awestruck at the vast development of the mechanical world, at the gigantic strides with which it has advanced in comparison with the slow progress of the animal 50.4K views · 172 likes · 27 reposts · 38 replies 24 Aug 2026 Nice article Paolo; we will make use of it in the kindergarten! And you should visit it sometime. Now we are just starting. First day of school is this September 1! @M33pinator 19.9K views · 87 likes · 8 reposts · 2 replies 24 Aug 2026 @RichardSSutton Fantastic initiative my dream came true (see my article here https://t.co/dJJFgLKne7) Now I just have to move to China! 21.5K views · 15 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies 23 Aug 2026 Kris De Asis and I are helping build a kindergarten for robots, a safe place for them to learn from experience about their bodies and the world. 48.5K views · 448 likes · 49 reposts · 18 replies 22 Aug 2026 At #WAIC2026, Turing Award winner Prof. @RichardSSutton shared his thoughts on #RobotKindergarten, our joint project with Openmind — a place where robots can learn through trial and error. Robot Kindergarten opens in Beijing this September. 🚀 #TASHAN #EmbodiedAI #TactileSensing h 50.9K views · 61 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies 13 Aug 2026 @RichardSSutton The next big step is not simply to understand ourselves. It is to understand the recursive loop between creator and creation. We shape intelligence, intelligence reshapes us, and that changed humanity builds the next intelligence. The real artifact is not the ma 3.8K views · 30 likes · 6 reposts · 5 replies 13 Jul 2026 @RichardSSutton Dear Prof.Sutton, I recently bought one of your classic reinforcement learning book. But I would like to ask you, in the current era when deep reinforcement learning and large language models are prevalent, is it still necessary to read this book carefully? https: 146.2K views · 74 likes · 5 reposts · 5 replies 19 Jun 2025 @RichardSSutton @QuintinPope5 Creating AIs smarter than humans imposes extinction risks on humans. This quest is reckless hubris, and fundamentally anti-human. We do not consent to the world's most dangerous experiment. 6.8K views · 46 likes · 0 reposts · 6 replies 20 Jul 2023 AI researchers seek to understand intelligence well enough to create beings of greater intelligence than current humans. Reaching this profound intellectual milestone will enrich our economies and challenge our societal institutions. It will be unprecedented and 298.4K views · 1.1K likes · 163 reposts · 82 replies 20 Jul 2023

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