Salim Ismail ✓
@salimismail · NYC · joined 17 Mar 2007
Founder @OpenExO Partner @ https://t.co/y9mIvtjJqZ Board Member @XPrize Founding Exec Dir @SingularityU.
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Increasingly, the uniqueness of humans vs AI will be that we are secularly ignorant but spiritually wise, while AIs are secularly knowledgeable but spiritually naive.
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@salimismail @ylecun Its funny that they all come to this realisation at the exact time they would benefit enormously from a reduction in spending on training to boost their financial numbers before the IPOs.
But I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
(Apart from Elon who already
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Maybe the summary of my rant from last night is that we have two futures in front of us: Star Trek or Mad Max. You can see many politicians pulling us straight into MM. Technology can (and will) deliver us to ST. But how elegantly (or not)?
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7/ If you're planning for p(doom), put equal rigor into a viable plan for p(fab). Who gets access? Who captures the gains? How do we lower the cost of essential services? “Benefits all humanity” needs milestones, budgets and accountability.
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8/ Abundance isn't a prediction that everything will turn out fine. It's something we have to build. Publish the safety plan. Publish the abundance plan. Measure both. Humanity deserves a future it can help create.
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6/ We're entering the Organizational Singularity. Intelligence and coordination are becoming radically cheaper. Where is the urgency to redesign our institutions so that this translates into shared abundance? That transition needs a plan.
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5/ Want guardrails? Apply the ExO framework: bounded experiments, fast feedback, transparent results and clear accountability. Set explicit conditions for expanding autonomy. Build the capacity to detect failures, intervene and learn.
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2/ I struggle to take frontier labs seriously when they've spent the last five years racing toward this exact moment—and now tell us we should all be terrified. I mean, c'mon. If you saw these risks coming, where was the plan? Show us what you're changing.
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3/ As I've said repeatedly on @moonshots_pod: where is the enforceable mechanism? Geopolitical arbitrage, competing national interests and open weights already in circulation. A commitment from a few labs doesn't give us a global brake pedal.
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4/ It's too late to build a strategy around slowing everyone down. We must accelerate and scale the benefits: better healthcare, personalized education, scientific discovery. Put more problem-solving capability into more people's hands.
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1/ My response to all this AI doomerism builds on @ylecun's observation that they thought GPT2 was world-ending. Give me a break. This doomerism is total b/s. “Just slow down” is not a credible strategy.
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omg.. a bit colloquial, but wow. I also like @emad's p(moon)
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@salimismail @moonshots_pod what about (woop)d? https://t.co/zrzfUmeyIP
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Against accounts of the same size
15 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.
Median views1 301this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %3.76%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %3.75%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 1 301 | 924 | 1.41× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 3.76% | 3.62% | 1.04× |
| Engagement rate | 3.75% | 1.52% | 2.47× |
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
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.40%13 Sep
2.49%15 Sep
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes80.4%949 in total
Reposts5.8%69 in total
Replies8.5%100 in total
Quotes1.4%16 in total
Bookmarks4.0%47 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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