Anil Seth ✓

@anilkseth

Neuroscientist: consciousness, perception, & dreamachines. TED speaker, & author: Being You - A New Science of Consciousness.

63 328Followers

966Following

16 718Posts total

299.5KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views22 856this account2 151median for 10K–100K

Reach, %36.09%this account6.48%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.59%this account1.54%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	22 856	2 151	10.6×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	36.09%	6.48%	5.57×
Engagement rate	0.59%	1.54%	0.38×

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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

40.6K30 Aug

143.7K

4.8K

1.1K31 Aug

104.2K

5.1K

Last 6 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%30 Aug

0.34%

0.86%

1.40%31 Aug

0.73%

0.35%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.54%.

What the audience does

Likes77.3%1 297 in total

Reposts4.3%72 in total

Replies6.2%104 in total

Quotes2.1%35 in total

Bookmarks10.1%170 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

@anilkseth @OpenAI @huggingface Wrote up some thoughts here! https://t.co/FLGyNK0jDY 5.1K views · 14 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies 31 Aug 2026 Thanks for engaging Anil. We know that a bunch of optimization pressure on a mind can create desires, foresight, and a propensity to organize in complex ways. This is what evolution did to humans, and to many other animals. Now another system of optimization pressure (which 104.2K views · 644 likes · 41 reposts · 57 replies 31 Aug 2026 @anilkseth @dwarkesh_sp @OpenAI @huggingface "Vanishingly unlikely" seems like a remarkably strong conclusion given the state of the argument. Your position is unfalsifiable, and it treats properties of biological systems as necessary for consciousness without any conclusive evi 1.1K views · 15 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 @dwarkesh_sp @OpenAI @huggingface small correction: "And if we overattribute, we may well end up mispredicting when we might most need to predict accurately" 4.8K views · 37 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies 30 Aug 2026 @dwarkesh_sp @OpenAI @huggingface I see that you did, @dwarkesh_sp, and thank you for pointing it out. You're absolutely right to highlight the very real dangers of loss of control. I also agree that easy-to-understand language can be helpful for public communication and (to som 143.7K views · 411 likes · 27 reposts · 35 replies 30 Aug 2026 @anilkseth @OpenAI @huggingface I respond to this anthropomorphizing objection here: https://t.co/IrjwudTRiG 40.6K views · 176 likes · 2 reposts · 5 replies 30 Aug 2026