Philippe Lemoine ✓

@phl43

Just a random person writing about stuff. "At least he's pretty smart." (@bechhof)

70 244Followers

1 812Following

165 358Posts total

469KViews 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 views13 246this account3 259median for 10K–100K

Reach, %18.86%this account10.24%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.55%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	13 246	3 259	4.06×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	18.86%	10.24%	1.84×
Engagement rate	0.55%	1.40%	0.39×

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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

15.8K26 Aug

322.3K27 Aug

5.1K

3.4K

111.7K

10.7K

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

1.34%26 Aug

0.30%27 Aug

0.69%

1.02%

0.40%

0.35%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes60.4%1 479 in total

Reposts3.8%93 in total

Replies5.0%122 in total

Quotes1.1%27 in total

Bookmarks29.7%728 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

@phl43 https://t.co/cG1JXNGsq4 10.7K views · 31 likes · 0 reposts · 6 replies 27 Aug 2026 Good pushes! There's 2 rough categories to your points 1. Will there be enough demand? 2. Will labs be able to capture the value? Let me address both. 1. Re demand One intuition pump is this analysis that Epoch did that shows that if all 30 million programmers in the world 111.7K views · 396 likes · 17 reposts · 31 replies 27 Aug 2026 @phl43 Value will be captured by the public through overall productivity, as usual for general purpose technologies. Almost everything we do now depends on electricity but the world is not ruled by electricity tycoons who control all the energy 3.4K views · 32 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 27 Aug 2026 @phl43 FWIW we get into it in the comments. See this and the back and forth that follows https://t.co/kpSerUn8Nj 5.1K views · 34 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 27 Aug 2026 I watched this the other day and what I find the most striking is that, for the most part, both of them have a purely supply-side approach to forecasting the revenue of OpenAI and Anthropic. Even Dylan, who is less bullish than Dwarkesh, seems to think that only politics and 322.3K views · 796 likes · 65 reposts · 73 replies 27 Aug 2026 @stevehou There are two things that seem simple but are actually really hard to think through, which economics trains you to do: 1) marginal vs average and 2) equilibrium. Besides the things you raise (true), it’s also the case that whatever gets automated at scale becomes cheap 15.8K views · 190 likes · 10 reposts · 9 replies 26 Aug 2026