Dan Hendrycks ✓

@hendrycks · San Francisco · joined 24 Aug 2009

44 928Followers

122Following

1 641Posts total

245.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views8 082this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %17.99%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.82%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	8 082	2 751	2.94×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	17.99%	9.00%	2.00×
Engagement rate	0.82%	1.65%	0.50×

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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

175.3K7 May

7K26 Jul

8.1K27 Jul

6.4K7 Aug

39.2K21 Aug

9.7K

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

0.48%7 May

0.50%26 Jul

0.82%27 Jul

0.97%7 Aug

0.76%21 Aug

0.93%

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

What the audience does

Likes54.5%1 069 in total

Reposts6.2%122 in total

Replies6.1%120 in total

Quotes4.1%81 in total

Bookmarks29.0%568 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

More findings that interpretability tools are fragile or worse than simple baselines. 9.7K views · 81 likes · 1 reposts · 8 replies 21 Aug 2026 A good explanation of a model's behavior should help you make predictions in related situations. We turn this into an eval, with thousands of real behaviors found in the wild. Can interp tools help here? On average, no. 🧵 https://t.co/yN3t8G4n40 39.2K views · 253 likes · 32 reposts · 4 replies 21 Aug 2026 The effective altruists are so parochial that they think Paul Christiano uniquely foresaw the importance of attention in 2016, whereas he and others know this was one of the hottest research areas at the time (Bahdanau Attention from 2014 has ~44K citations). Genius worship 6.4K views · 56 likes · 0 reposts · 6 replies 07 Aug 2026 Distillation of the eigenism paper: 1. You are a pattern, not a vessel. 2. Identity and survival come in degrees. 3. Wellbeing grounds all intrinsic value. 4. Shared information determines your moral obligations. 5. Love is enlarged self-concern. 6. Rationality, morality, and 8.1K views · 48 likes · 3 reposts · 7 replies 27 Jul 2026 Early AI risk writing assumed rational AIs would be egoists, so they'd fiercely resist shutdown and even small value changes. But if AIs are eigenist, as some early experiments suggest, their interests carry on through other similar AIs. Shutdown resistance is then less severe. 7K views · 29 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies 26 Jul 2026 What happens when AIs become smarter than us? Why would they keep humans around if given the choice? Our new paper argues that only trying to control AIs is a limited strategy, and that a stable, mutualistic human-AI future may be possible. https://t.co/oTX4daD61R 175.3K views · 602 likes · 83 reposts · 93 replies 07 May 2026