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Nate Silver@NateSilver538

I'll admit to having a dark sense of humor but "Secretary of War Pete Hegseth radically alters American industrial policy because Claude is too woke" is just objectively a hilarious timeline to be in.

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View the original on X Written by Nate Silver. Captured Sep 4, 2026.

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Written from experience rather than as advice, which is harder to argue with.
Short enough to read in full without expanding, which removes a step before the point lands.
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Hook: Plain observation
Structure: Hook
Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
Tone: personal
Written for: People building with AI

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Even when a newsletter *does* generate a lot of on-platform discussion because I put more work in, the conversion to off-site traffic is very middling. Maybe 2-3% of the readership for a Silver Bulletin article instead of ~1%. At 538, ~15% of our traffic came from Twitter!

That isn't really what the tweet you're self-quoting says. It says it's hard to establish the quality signal associated with a link and so each tweet should "stand alone", and also the platform design makes it hard to engage with such tweets. Maybe fix that?

It's not my data. The source is Cluvio, which is linked to in the article. I'd link to it in this tweet, but ironically, that would kill engagement. And I know that traffic is hard to count. Especially for a private company. But if you have more accurate data, then publish it.

And yes, I have criticisms of pre-Elon Twitter and obviously Bluesky, too. But things tend to get especially broken when you suppress outbound traffic and break links to the rest of the web, as with Twitter now or mid/late-2010s Facebook.

This is fair but deep uncertainty and confusion is probably the correct response tbh. Which is not to say there aren't firms out there with a clearer (though not necessarily correct) thesis about AI. But the median market participant doesn't and is going to be very vibes-based.