Scott Alexander ✓

@slatestarcodex · joined 18 Jun 2013

I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog. This is where I make terrible puns.

166 929Followers

38Following

4 264Posts total

6MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

1 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views56 561this account5 674median for 100K–1M

Reach, %33.88%this account2.38%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.09%this account1.44%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	56 561	5 674	9.97×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	33.88%	2.38%	14.2×
Engagement rate	1.09%	1.44%	0.76×

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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

215.9K17 May

109.3K30 Oct

4.9M12 Jan

341K

378K

5.3K

56.6K9 Jul

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.20%17 May

0.93%30 Oct

0.53%12 Jan

0.40%

0.57%

0.88%

1.09%9 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.44%.

What the audience does

Likes89.7%33 184 in total

Reposts4.6%1 697 in total

Replies2.6%945 in total

Quotes1.3%490 in total

Bookmarks1.8%676 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

Congratulations to @DKokotajlo and team on releasing Plan A (https://t.co/OIly7QxiUs) , a followup to AI 2027. My attempt at a gentle introduction to the ideas involved is at https://t.co/6X6Kjuv2l7 56.6K views · 527 likes · 47 reposts · 31 replies 09 Jul 2026 @slatestarcodex Publicly dunking on parents and parenting styles should ~never be done until we're at replacement fertility. 5.3K views · 44 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 12 Jan 2026 More seriously, my wife and I already set plenty of boundaries for our kids, like "no hitting", and discipline them when they disobey. In my essay , I talked about things like my kids constantly changing their minds about what songs they want to hear, or inventing tactics to 378K views · 2K likes · 30 reposts · 71 replies 12 Jan 2026 I finally got my first Grok "Today's News" item, about people complaining that I'm "letting my kids walk all over me". Fact check: PARTLY TRUE - my son manages to walk on me sometimes, but my daughter doesn't have the balance for it. (more serious response below) https://t.co/v 341K views · 1.3K likes · 19 reposts · 26 replies 12 Jan 2026 When one of my children was 2, he dropped a carrot on the floor and refused to pick it up. He was told he would not be allowed to do anything fun or have any privileges until he picked up the carrot. He refused for hours. He cried and screamed. He even napped, woke up, and 4.9M views · 23.8K likes · 1.5K reposts · 750 replies 12 Jan 2026 In a recent article on "the AI apocalypse", Gareth Watkins of @newstatesman condemns me for a statement I made in a SSC post. I described @kelseytuoc's difficulty interfacing with doctors to renew her Adderall prescription, and said it decreased her effectiveness 20% and 109.3K views · 949 likes · 25 reposts · 28 replies 30 Oct 2025 Concerning... 215.9K views · 4.6K likes · 120 reposts · 39 replies 17 May 2025 I prefer to think of it as the late pre-truth era. 0 views · 2K likes · 160 reposts · 120 replies 25 Nov 2020