Dean W. Ball ✓

@deanwball · Washington, DC · joined 12 Apr 2009

head of strategic futures @openai | views mine, and mine alone

73 216Followers

1 792Following

13 695Posts total

259.6KViews 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.

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	32 942	2 743	12.0×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	44.99%	8.91%	5.05×
Engagement rate	0.69%	1.64%	0.42×

How these benchmarks are built →

Latest posts

My dream feature for signal would be a “call this person later” button. Various potential calls pop up throughout my day (often more than a dozen) and it’d be so awesome, as the day is wrapping, to have a filter button that pulls up a “call sheet,” as they used to refer to these. 665 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 this latest panic over the false claim that OpenAI is “doing neuralese” underscores the need for regulation, especially the rapid institutionalization of auditing and technical assessment of frontier AI labs. We are now adjudicating technically complex and nuanced claims on the 73.8K views · 382 likes · 25 reposts · 61 replies 02 Sep 2026 Fully endorse every word of what Jakub (OpenAI’s research director) says here. Exploring legal mechanisms to prevent this race has been an early topic of my own work at OpenAI. 22.5K views · 220 likes · 4 reposts · 17 replies 02 Sep 2026 i agree with this and think that CoT is at best an epiphenomenon of current training methods. it will break (in the future, not now). safety community too often centers thought terminating taboos like “neuralese” and “training on interp” 109.1K views · 673 likes · 38 reposts · 48 replies 02 Sep 2026 One clarification: while I do believe the *existence* of self-sovereign agents is inevitable, I am not saying it is inevitable that there will be a huge number of them or that they will matter tremendously in the economy. These are certainly possible outcomes, but not inevitable. 10.1K views · 66 likes · 3 reposts · 14 replies 02 Sep 2026 I've had an essay on this same topic ready to go for a while, almost time to ship. Look for it on Hyperdimensional soon! 43.3K views · 59 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies 01 Sep 2026

Similar accounts