Alex Imas ✓
@alexolegimas · joined 24 Feb 2024
Director of AGI Economics @GoogleDeepMind. Professor at @ChicagoBooth. (on leave) Essays: https://t.co/9qSiQxvdja Opinions are my own.
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As we discussed with @DKThomp months ago, transformational technology disrupts some jobs but creates others. It's important to pay attention to both: to provide support for the former so that they can transition to the latter, and to ensure that the latter can continue to grow. h
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Your comparative advantage post of the day.
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Here is why I’m so excited about the FLT result: it is such a salient case of AI crossing over from a GPT to an IMI, invention of a method of invention. And holy shit, IMIs are a big deal.
AI didn’t just solve a problem. It created a method for solving problems.
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With the caveat that I am not a professional mathematician, this result is the most significant that I have seen for the field of mathematics thus far. The ability to automate formalization is the ability to accelerate progress, whether that is done by machines or humans or both.
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@alexolegimas least popular take to come out of an AI lab
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@alexolegimas mario botta lets goooooo https://t.co/JlLsYjVQec
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@alexolegimas Alex you know where I live. You can join me in my building - a brutalist shopping mall gone terribly wrong. https://t.co/TrJBEFsfLb
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Brutalism was the height of architecture. I will not be taking questions.
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@alexolegimas @Google @GoogleDeepMind people bypass so much bureaucracy just by using multimodal tools for physical troubleshooting.
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@alexolegimas @Google @GoogleDeepMind very well done 👏
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@alexolegimas @Google @GoogleDeepMind this is awesome - do you mind sharing the LaTeX file? will make it a lot easier to read with agents
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Very excited about the release of the ATLAS 1.0 white paper on AI use and the economy. The report is a broad collaboration between @Google & @GoogleDeepMind and covers how our AI is being used at scale.
The data set has 15 million de-identified interactions across a large https
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New essay on the economics of structural change and the post-commodity future of work.
1. Almost any question about the impact of advanced AI on the economy needs to start at the same place: what is still scarce? Answer that, and the analysis becomes pretty straightforward. This
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Against accounts of the same size
12 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views11 546this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %32.03%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.71%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 11 546 | 924 | 12.5× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 32.03% | 3.62% | 8.85× |
| Engagement rate | 0.71% | 1.52% | 0.47× |
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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
1M14 Apr
51.8K23 Jul
530
247
177
276.5K1 Sep
3.2K
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48.7K4 Sep
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Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.35%14 Apr
0.72%23 Jul
0.38%
0.81%
0.56%
0.17%1 Sep
0.85%
0.93%
1.79%
0.69%4 Sep
0.70%
1.27%7 Sep
0.39%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes43.1%4 252 in total
Reposts6.6%652 in total
Replies3.3%328 in total
Quotes2.1%206 in total
Bookmarks44.8%4 417 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
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Daily snapshots since 06 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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