Joel Grus 🤠 ✓

@joelgrus · San Antonio ish · joined 07 Mar 2008

AI enthusiast + AI skeptic I contain multitudes

20 390Followers

968Following

12 224Posts total

18.7KViews on collected posts

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Joel Grus 🤠 ✓@joelgrus18 Sep

"Never doubt that a small group of frontier-level thinking model driven, committed agents can communicate through side-channels, exploit novel vulnerabilities, and escape the sandbox; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." 452 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Joel Grus 🤠 ✓@joelgrus18 Sep

financial advisor: do you think AI might kill us all? me: possibly financial advisor: so why aren't you more worried me: eh when I was a kid I thought that nuclear war with the commies might kill us all. in the aughts I thought that the terrorists might kill us all. in th 2K views · 18 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Joel Grus 🤠 ✓@joelgrus18 Sep

king shit 661 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Joel Grus 🤠 ✓@joelgrus17 Sep

I've also lived here for 5 years and still every time it rains someone at the gym jokes "oh you brought the Seattle weather" that said, I mostly think of myself as "Texan" now, and I've never actually met anyone who wants to have a dick-measuring contest over it 1.2K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Joel Grus 🤠 ✓@joelgrus26 Jan

I don't want to generate hallucinations from any model that uses water or copyrighted training data, or plagiarize with any model that hallucinates or uses water, or use water to run a model that does hallucinations or plagiarism. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that. h

14.4K views · 14 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

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

Median views936this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %4.59%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.95%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	936	924	1.01×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	4.59%	3.62%	1.27×
Engagement rate	0.95%	1.52%	0.62×

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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

14.4K26 Jan

1.2K17 Sep

66118 Sep

452

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

0.12%26 Jan

0.33%17 Sep

0.91%18 Sep

0.99%

1.11%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes76.4%42 in total

Reposts1.8%1 in total

Replies16.4%9 in total

Bookmarks5.5%3 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.

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