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

Latest posts

Richard Sutton ✓@RichardSSutton25 Aug

1964. 28.1K views · 214 likes · 8 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

Richard Sutton ✓@RichardSSutton25 Aug

1863! 13.5K views · 64 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Richard Sutton ✓@RichardSSutton24 Aug

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 Open on X →

Richard Sutton ✓@RichardSSutton24 Aug

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 Open on X →

Richard Sutton ✓@RichardSSutton23 Aug

@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 Open on X →

Richard Sutton ✓@RichardSSutton22 Aug

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 Open on X →

Richard Sutton ✓@RichardSSutton13 Aug

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 Open on X →

Richard Sutton ✓@RichardSSutton13 Jul

@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 Open on X →

Richard Sutton ✓@RichardSSutton19 Jun 2025

@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 Open on X →

Richard Sutton ✓@RichardSSutton20 Jul 2023

@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 Open on X →

Richard Sutton ✓@RichardSSutton20 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 Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views28 141this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %40.19%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.49%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	28 141	924	30.5×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	40.19%	3.62%	11.1×
Engagement rate	0.49%	1.52%	0.32×

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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 1.52%.

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.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.