Samuel Hammond 🦉 ✓

@hamandcheese · Washington, DC · joined 29 Apr 2007

Chief economist + AI Policy Director, @joinFAI. Nonresident fellow @NiskanenCenter. Pluralist. 'The world is second best, at best.' | samuel@thefai.org

31 454Followers

2 730Following

76 444Posts total

32.9KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views2 111this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %6.71%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.11%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 111	2 896	0.73×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.71%	9.51%	0.71×
Engagement rate	1.11%	1.56%	0.72×

Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →

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

26.2K11 Aug

1.1K2 Sep

894

2.5K

2.1K

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.54%11 Aug

1.11%2 Sep

0.89%

1.18%

2.56%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes60.4%197 in total

Reposts7.4%24 in total

Replies6.4%21 in total

Quotes1.2%4 in total

Bookmarks24.5%80 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

Agree these institutions are urgently needed but in the meantime labs could always invite independent 3rd party assessments unilaterally. 2.1K views · 46 likes · 4 reposts · 4 replies 02 Sep 2026 Wifi is down on my United flight. Will be in SF tonight thru Saturday if I survive. Any good long reads or pdf books I should download? 2.5K views · 20 likes · 1 reposts · 9 replies 02 Sep 2026 Karl Marx, the minor post-Ricardian? https://t.co/P4XZjtE8m0 894 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 I asked Fable 5.1 to look me up and make something I'd like and it produced this cool, interactive model of AI and Leviathan, wherein the lag in government AI adoption leads either to state collapse or reforms that restore the narrow corridor after a lag. https://t.co/BJUZlYGejS 1.1K views · 8 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 New post from me on the rising number of rogue AI incidents, the problem with RL and consequentialist decision theory, and how to avoid creating an uncontrollable superintelligent slime mold. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice https://t.co/n4rV2qyF6F 26.2K views · 115 likes · 17 reposts · 6 replies 11 Aug 2026