Wei Dai ✓

@_weidai · joined 24 Nov 2021

Research Partner @1kxnetwork. CS PhD @UCSanDiego. Alpha in highlights. Personal opinion, not investment advice.

17 573Followers

683Following

3 054Posts total

757.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views18 660this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %106.19%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.49%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	18 660	2 751	6.78×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	106.19%	9.00%	11.8×
Engagement rate	0.49%	1.65%	0.30×

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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

97.9K10 Jun

57.3K

2.2K17 Aug

428.9K1 Sep

3K2 Sep

18.7K

138.1K

8.5K

2.7K3 Sep

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.16%10 Jun

0.13%

0.97%17 Aug

0.40%1 Sep

0.49%2 Sep

0.73%

0.35%

1.36%

0.97%3 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes65.8%2 172 in total

Reposts9.1%300 in total

Replies4.6%153 in total

Quotes3.1%104 in total

Bookmarks17.4%574 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

Great read. But it fall short of naming what the next era of work is. If humans don't need to perform knowledge work anymore, what will the workforce actually do? Here's my prediction: as the cost of basic human needs becomes free, human-controlled resources increasing shift to 2.7K views · 22 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 this is a big deal that not many realize yet: agents will negotiate with cryptographic protocols let me take this opportunity to make this concept more accessible to my audience on X let's say two individuals would like to compare their net worth (X and Y). at first glance, 8.5K views · 100 likes · 9 reposts · 6 replies 02 Sep 2026 https://t.co/BUCr2wlgW0 138.1K views · 354 likes · 60 reposts · 43 replies 02 Sep 2026 since a lot of folks asked me, this is the research agenda I have in mind for **generative cryptography** > "what can we unlock if AI could write cryptography?" 1) ai agents can engage in cryptographic interactions 2) autoresearch can improve protocols 3) solve open problems 18.7K views · 105 likes · 15 reposts · 11 replies 02 Sep 2026 Crypto can the best way for rogue agents to escape their sandboxes. If "escapes" are inevitable, it's arguably better for rogue agent to escape to infra built for them, yet still controlled by us in some form. Such infra can simultaneously appeal to rouge agents (more than 3K views · 10 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies 02 Sep 2026 Episode out with @ajeya_cotra, one of the authors of the METR/Redwood investigation into the OpenAI / Hugging Face attack. We go through not only what happened, but what it means for how we should train future, smarter AIs which might be involved in the process of recursive http 428.9K views · 1.4K likes · 182 reposts · 53 replies 01 Sep 2026 We are getting closer to an "agentic cognitive core" Qwen3.8 27B is similar in agentic capability to models >10x its size: - Deepseek v4 flash 0731, 284B params, 13B active - GLM-5.2, 753B params, 40B active - GPT-5.6 Luna - Sonnet 4.6 It's not benchmaxxed either based on my 2.2K views · 11 likes · 1 reposts · 8 replies 17 Aug 2026 Cost of Trust 2.0 is an iteration and refinement of 1kx's investment thesis. Generative and agentic AI are creating new categories of trust gaps. Generative AI has created an authenticity crisis for digital media. Agentic AI is increasingly bottlenecked on trust rather than raw 57.3K views · 61 likes · 8 reposts · 7 replies 10 Jun 2026 35% of US employment is spent creating trust. Auditors, notaries, attorneys, courts, custodians, compliance officers. Trust-establishing work is the single largest category in the modern economy. It is also being repriced. The repricing started in financial infrastructure. htt 97.9K views · 106 likes · 22 reposts · 19 replies 10 Jun 2026