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Jacob Coxon’s resignation tweet currently has 120M views in less than 24 hours. Astra thinks the 235k bookmarks - 36 for every 100 likes - is an extraordinary level of engagement, of people wanting to come back to the thread. And Evan Hubinger’s reply is at 35M views.

This might be one of the most important AI risk messages to date.

Edit: for reference, Grok says it’s in a similar class to “Strong Elon Musk posts, major celebrity / death / personal news, breaking tech / AI / industry bombshells, viral videos from big creators, political / cultural flashpoints, and well-timed news from mid-to-large accounts”

Well.

This turned out to be prescient.

And presciently timely.

4Jenna_Parr2mo

Opus 5: "Rough conversion for Amazon's print "Books" rank (which is what #80 is — hardcover only, separate from Kindle and Audible ranks): * #1 → ~4,000–8,000/day * #10 → ~1,200–1,800/day * #80 → ~300–450/day * #200 → ~180–250/day * #1,000 → ~50/day * #10,000 → ~5–10/day [...] ...At ~350/day on Amazon, grossing up to all US print retail (Amazon is roughly 40–50% of adult nonfiction units), you're at ~700–900/day, ~5,000–6,000/week. That's genuinely list-relevant — bottom of the NYT hardcover nonfiction list is somewhere around 3,000–6,000/week."

4yams2mo

yes, this is likely better than most or all of the current non-fiction bestsellers, but the NYT applies a lot of discretion in their decision-making, and I'm not expecting IABIED to appear on the list in the coming weeks.