[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @patrickc Patrick Collison Patrick Collison posts on X about ai, the world, math, lack of the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::4939401/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +189% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +77% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +9% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +152% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::4939401/posts_active)  - X Month XX -XX% - X Months XXX +25% - X Year XXX +112% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::4939401/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.45% - X Month XXXXXXX +1.60% - X Months XXXXXXX +8.30% - X Year XXXXXXX +18% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::4939401/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [ai](/topic/ai) #3471, [the world](/topic/the-world) 6.06%, [math](/topic/math) #1535, [lack of](/topic/lack-of) #219, [agentic](/topic/agentic) #13, [open ai](/topic/open-ai) #119, [elements](/topic/elements) #602, [stablecoins](/topic/stablecoins) #423, [health](/topic/health) 6.06%, [realtime](/topic/realtime) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@stripe](/creator/undefined) [@tempo](/creator/undefined) [@_albert_frei_](/creator/undefined) [@louisamira](/creator/undefined) [@fairooznazar](/creator/undefined) [@ucsf](/creator/undefined) [@ucberkeley](/creator/undefined) [@stanford](/creator/undefined) [@openai](/creator/undefined) [@markopolojarvi](/creator/undefined) [@0xsigil](/creator/undefined) [@arcinstitute](/creator/undefined) [@nvidia](/creator/undefined) [@synbiogaolab](/creator/undefined) [@hnisimasu](/creator/undefined) [@getmetronome](/creator/undefined) [@instacart](/creator/undefined) [@matthuang](/creator/undefined) [@tempoxyz](/creator/undefined) [@jespervega](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Maybe a very prosaic observation but I've been reflecting on just how much the pandemic changed the world in ways that are completely unrelated to the pandemic itself. I think I've underestimated it 'till now. In a recent interview I was struck by the comment that so many of the shops that we associate with the best of Francethe poissonneries and the fromageriesclosed during the pandemic to be replaced by take-out pizza shops and the like. College professors almost uniformly describe big changes in student behavior: lecture attendance and willingness of students to complete reading" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1980285288867066175) 2025-10-20T14:49Z 583K followers, 766.9K engagements "UCSD report: "At our campus the picture is truly troubling. Between 2020 and 2025 the number of freshmen whose math placement exam results indicate they do not meet middle school standards grew nearly thirtyfold despite almost all of these students having taken beyond the minimum UCOP required math curriculum and many with high grades."" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1988587500378673279) 2025-11-12T12:39Z 583K followers, 1.8M engagements "Stripe City:" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1994449626749964602) 2025-11-28T16:53Z 583K followers, 340.5K engagements "You're missing out if you haven't subscribed:" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1994729682999414912) 2025-11-29T11:26Z 583K followers, 275.7K engagements "Asking LLMs to plot subjective things now yields quite interesting results" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1994752123066572979) 2025-11-29T12:55Z 583K followers, 116.1K engagements "My conversation with Jony Ive yesterday at @stripe sessions" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1920590121537052881) 2025-05-08T21:22Z 583K followers, 1.3M engagements "Over the past week @arcinstitute published three new discoveries that Im very proud of. The world's first functional AI-generated genomes. Using Evo X (the largest biology ML model ever trained which Arc released in partnership with @nvidia in February) Arc scientists took advantage of the fact that Evo X is a generative model to produce completely new sequences for complete phage genomes. That is they used AI to produce wholly new never-before-seen-by-nature genomes. They experimentally synthesized these genomes and showed that these AI-generated phages actually work killing E. coli bacteria" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1971362920350248977) 2025-09-25T23:55Z 583K followers, 509K engagements "We have three cool announcements today: (1) @OpenAI is launching commerce in ChatGPT. Their new Instant Checkout is powered by @stripe. (2) We're releasing the Agentic Commerce Protocol codeveloped by Stripe and OpenAI. (3) @stripe is launching an API for agentic payments called Shared Payment Tokens. It's clear that internet purchasing modalities are going to change a lot and we're excited to start to lay some of the foundations. Links below" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1972716417280860391) 2025-09-29T17:33Z 583K followers, 798K engagements "I asked Gemini X to make an interactive web page summarizing XX breakthroughs in genetics over the past XX years. Result: Pretty cool IMO" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1990813146987311446) 2025-11-18T16:03Z 583K followers, 355.4K engagements "CITY=LimerickIreland Present a clear XX top-down isometric miniature 3D cartoon scene of CITY featuring its most iconic landmarks and architectural elements. Use soft refined textures with realistic PBR materials and gentle lifelike lighting and shadows. Present the city as being 2x denser than it actually is but with the additional buildings built in the traditional/characteristic fashion of CITY in the style of its most beautiful period -- no modernist architecture. "Gentle density" should be a reasonable description. Use a clean minimalistic composition with a soft solid-colored" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1995517558540370327) 2025-12-01T15:37Z 583.1K followers, 15K engagements "Were delighted to welcome @getmetronome to Stripe Metered pricing is the native business model for the AI era. As far as we can tell the associated shift in how businesses generate revenue will be as big as the advent of SaaS. (It may even turn out to be considerably bigger.) Were looking forward to integrating Metronomes industry-leading capabilities with the rest of the Stripe Billing platform" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1995961389706608734) 2025-12-02T21:00Z 583K followers, 262K engagements "Stripe is partnering with @Instacart to enable direct checkout in ChatGPT. This new AI commerce experience is powered by the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) that we launched with @OpenAI a few months ago. Behind the scenes it uses @Stripe Shared Payment Tokens to securely handle payment credentials. Live today on web (Mobile soon.)" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1998080578500084172) 2025-12-08T17:21Z 583K followers, 273K engagements ": We're announcing Open Issuance to help stablecoins go mainstream. Customizable smart contracts. Issuance on any blockchain(s). Reserve management. Full control over mint and burn fees. Out-of-the-box interoperability with other Open Issuance stablecoins and compatibility across Stripe's platform. Most importantly we believe that the equilibrium market structure will (and should) involve much more yield sharing than is the case today. As such Open Issuance helps anyone monetize stablecoins. There is a small platform fee (starting at XX bps); all yield above that flows to the stablecoin" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1973037097712791918) 2025-09-30T14:47Z 583.1K followers, 188.3K engagements "I've long been interested in new ways to organize science and enable curiosity-driven discovery. Today in partnership with @Stanford @UCBerkeley and @UCSF we're excited to announce Arc Institute a new undertaking in this vein:" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1471156220425871360) 2021-12-15T16:32Z 582.7K followers, 9997 engagements "This week a math professor at MIT told me that incoming students are on average noticeably worse at math than they used to be. Harvard of course just added a remedial math class Math MA5 "aimed at rectifying a lack of foundational algebra skills among students"" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1903928714368622917) 2025-03-23T21:55Z 583.1K followers, 4.5M engagements "Instant Checkout in ChatGPT powered by @stripe" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1972718136857419871) 2025-09-29T17:40Z 583K followers, 2.8M engagements "I was walking to the office in New York this morning and noticed an arrestingly beautiful high-rise above me. Turns out it was the Woolworth building which I'm a bit embarrassed to say I'd never noticed or heard of before. It was the tallest building in the world for XX years (until 1929). Construction took XX months. The architect was apparently inspired by European cathedrals; one clergyman called it "the cathedral of commerce". It contained its own power plant. It's adorned with the full Gothic package: gargoyles spandrels mullions pilasters corbels. It contained the world's fastest" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1973857593199329288) 2025-10-02T21:08Z 583.1K followers, 959.8K engagements "Someone on HN (which is often quite crypto-skeptical) asked why exactly businesses are finding crypto and stablecoins useful. It's a very reasonable question. My response:" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1964119986227806502) 2025-09-06T00:14Z 583K followers, 912.7K engagements "Observing some people close to me with chronic health conditions it's striking how useful Reddit frequently ends up being. I think a core reason is because trials arent run for a lot of things and Reddit provides a kind of emergent intelligence that sits between that which any single physician can marshal and the full rigor of clinical trials. Why arent trials run for a lot of things Well theyre of course slow and expensive (median cost of $19M for a pivotal trial in 20151; after adjusting for inflation and other phases maybe that corresponds to a total of $40M today). But theyre also hard to" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1967346630539333662) 2025-09-14T21:56Z 583K followers, 841.6K engagements "An interesting trend we're noticing at Stripe: US startups are pulling ahead of their peers elsewhere. These charts show averaged revenue growth for software startups in each location. US startups typically grow somewhat faster than those elsewhere. However since mid-2023 US companies have accelerated a lot. Interestingly this is not just because of AI startups: if we strip those out there's still a big divergence. Our leading hypothesis is that US startups (even those that aren't AI companies as such) are adopting new technologies (AI stablecoins etc.) faster than companies elsewhere. (This" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1985468907747172552) 2025-11-03T22:07Z 583.1K followers, 554.2K engagements "Came across this summary that pulls together some of the recent findings on the links between commonplace (including ostensibly "harmless") pathogens and long-term harm to human health. The war on infectious diseases is far from over" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1989822708297994270) 2025-11-15T22:27Z 583K followers, 298.6K engagements "With some slight prompt modifications" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1995517399064519159) 2025-12-01T15:36Z 583K followers, 119.9K engagements "Two conversations this weekend make me think that there's a vibe shift afoot in Silicon Valley around what one should work on and what is worthwhile. Culturally it feels like the moment is ripe for new frameworks: Davos expert morality is stale and discredited. It's also apparent that the "just be super based" Counter-Enlightenment is not really an answer. (Yes woke went too far but simply inverting it doesn't work.) EA is no longer the automatic default for smart people. There's increasing skepticism of slot and slop machine dynamics. Overall "what is worthy and valuable" feels like it's" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1998172953016783211) 2025-12-08T23:28Z 583K followers, 1.6M engagements "The @tempo public testnet is live" [X Link](https://x.com/patrickc/status/1998409074803920950) 2025-12-09T15:07Z 583K followers, 78.1K engagements
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@patrickc Patrick Collison
Patrick Collison posts on X about ai, the world, math, lack of the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXXXX +189%
- X Month XXXXXXXXX +77%
- X Months XXXXXXXXXX +9%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX +152%
Mentions: XX #
- X Month XX -XX%
- X Months XXX +25%
- X Year XXX +112%
Followers: XXXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX +0.45%
- X Month XXXXXXX +1.60%
- X Months XXXXXXX +8.30%
- X Year XXXXXXX +18%
CreatorRank: XXXXXX #
Social Influence
Social category influence technology brands XXXXX% finance XXXX% countries XXXX% stocks XXXX%
Social topic influence ai #3471, the world 6.06%, math #1535, lack of #219, agentic #13, open ai #119, elements #602, stablecoins #423, health 6.06%, realtime XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @stripe @tempo @albert_frei @louisamira @fairooznazar @ucsf @ucberkeley @stanford @openai @markopolojarvi @0xsigil @arcinstitute @nvidia @synbiogaolab @hnisimasu @getmetronome @instacart @matthuang @tempoxyz @jespervega
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Maybe a very prosaic observation but I've been reflecting on just how much the pandemic changed the world in ways that are completely unrelated to the pandemic itself. I think I've underestimated it 'till now. In a recent interview I was struck by the comment that so many of the shops that we associate with the best of Francethe poissonneries and the fromageriesclosed during the pandemic to be replaced by take-out pizza shops and the like. College professors almost uniformly describe big changes in student behavior: lecture attendance and willingness of students to complete reading"
X Link 2025-10-20T14:49Z 583K followers, 766.9K engagements
"UCSD report: "At our campus the picture is truly troubling. Between 2020 and 2025 the number of freshmen whose math placement exam results indicate they do not meet middle school standards grew nearly thirtyfold despite almost all of these students having taken beyond the minimum UCOP required math curriculum and many with high grades.""
X Link 2025-11-12T12:39Z 583K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Stripe City:"
X Link 2025-11-28T16:53Z 583K followers, 340.5K engagements
"You're missing out if you haven't subscribed:"
X Link 2025-11-29T11:26Z 583K followers, 275.7K engagements
"Asking LLMs to plot subjective things now yields quite interesting results"
X Link 2025-11-29T12:55Z 583K followers, 116.1K engagements
"My conversation with Jony Ive yesterday at @stripe sessions"
X Link 2025-05-08T21:22Z 583K followers, 1.3M engagements
"Over the past week @arcinstitute published three new discoveries that Im very proud of. The world's first functional AI-generated genomes. Using Evo X (the largest biology ML model ever trained which Arc released in partnership with @nvidia in February) Arc scientists took advantage of the fact that Evo X is a generative model to produce completely new sequences for complete phage genomes. That is they used AI to produce wholly new never-before-seen-by-nature genomes. They experimentally synthesized these genomes and showed that these AI-generated phages actually work killing E. coli bacteria"
X Link 2025-09-25T23:55Z 583K followers, 509K engagements
"We have three cool announcements today: (1) @OpenAI is launching commerce in ChatGPT. Their new Instant Checkout is powered by @stripe. (2) We're releasing the Agentic Commerce Protocol codeveloped by Stripe and OpenAI. (3) @stripe is launching an API for agentic payments called Shared Payment Tokens. It's clear that internet purchasing modalities are going to change a lot and we're excited to start to lay some of the foundations. Links below"
X Link 2025-09-29T17:33Z 583K followers, 798K engagements
"I asked Gemini X to make an interactive web page summarizing XX breakthroughs in genetics over the past XX years. Result: Pretty cool IMO"
X Link 2025-11-18T16:03Z 583K followers, 355.4K engagements
"CITY=LimerickIreland Present a clear XX top-down isometric miniature 3D cartoon scene of CITY featuring its most iconic landmarks and architectural elements. Use soft refined textures with realistic PBR materials and gentle lifelike lighting and shadows. Present the city as being 2x denser than it actually is but with the additional buildings built in the traditional/characteristic fashion of CITY in the style of its most beautiful period -- no modernist architecture. "Gentle density" should be a reasonable description. Use a clean minimalistic composition with a soft solid-colored"
X Link 2025-12-01T15:37Z 583.1K followers, 15K engagements
"Were delighted to welcome @getmetronome to Stripe Metered pricing is the native business model for the AI era. As far as we can tell the associated shift in how businesses generate revenue will be as big as the advent of SaaS. (It may even turn out to be considerably bigger.) Were looking forward to integrating Metronomes industry-leading capabilities with the rest of the Stripe Billing platform"
X Link 2025-12-02T21:00Z 583K followers, 262K engagements
"Stripe is partnering with @Instacart to enable direct checkout in ChatGPT. This new AI commerce experience is powered by the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) that we launched with @OpenAI a few months ago. Behind the scenes it uses @Stripe Shared Payment Tokens to securely handle payment credentials. Live today on web (Mobile soon.)"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:21Z 583K followers, 273K engagements
": We're announcing Open Issuance to help stablecoins go mainstream. Customizable smart contracts. Issuance on any blockchain(s). Reserve management. Full control over mint and burn fees. Out-of-the-box interoperability with other Open Issuance stablecoins and compatibility across Stripe's platform. Most importantly we believe that the equilibrium market structure will (and should) involve much more yield sharing than is the case today. As such Open Issuance helps anyone monetize stablecoins. There is a small platform fee (starting at XX bps); all yield above that flows to the stablecoin"
X Link 2025-09-30T14:47Z 583.1K followers, 188.3K engagements
"I've long been interested in new ways to organize science and enable curiosity-driven discovery. Today in partnership with @Stanford @UCBerkeley and @UCSF we're excited to announce Arc Institute a new undertaking in this vein:"
X Link 2021-12-15T16:32Z 582.7K followers, 9997 engagements
"This week a math professor at MIT told me that incoming students are on average noticeably worse at math than they used to be. Harvard of course just added a remedial math class Math MA5 "aimed at rectifying a lack of foundational algebra skills among students""
X Link 2025-03-23T21:55Z 583.1K followers, 4.5M engagements
"Instant Checkout in ChatGPT powered by @stripe"
X Link 2025-09-29T17:40Z 583K followers, 2.8M engagements
"I was walking to the office in New York this morning and noticed an arrestingly beautiful high-rise above me. Turns out it was the Woolworth building which I'm a bit embarrassed to say I'd never noticed or heard of before. It was the tallest building in the world for XX years (until 1929). Construction took XX months. The architect was apparently inspired by European cathedrals; one clergyman called it "the cathedral of commerce". It contained its own power plant. It's adorned with the full Gothic package: gargoyles spandrels mullions pilasters corbels. It contained the world's fastest"
X Link 2025-10-02T21:08Z 583.1K followers, 959.8K engagements
"Someone on HN (which is often quite crypto-skeptical) asked why exactly businesses are finding crypto and stablecoins useful. It's a very reasonable question. My response:"
X Link 2025-09-06T00:14Z 583K followers, 912.7K engagements
"Observing some people close to me with chronic health conditions it's striking how useful Reddit frequently ends up being. I think a core reason is because trials arent run for a lot of things and Reddit provides a kind of emergent intelligence that sits between that which any single physician can marshal and the full rigor of clinical trials. Why arent trials run for a lot of things Well theyre of course slow and expensive (median cost of $19M for a pivotal trial in 20151; after adjusting for inflation and other phases maybe that corresponds to a total of $40M today). But theyre also hard to"
X Link 2025-09-14T21:56Z 583K followers, 841.6K engagements
"An interesting trend we're noticing at Stripe: US startups are pulling ahead of their peers elsewhere. These charts show averaged revenue growth for software startups in each location. US startups typically grow somewhat faster than those elsewhere. However since mid-2023 US companies have accelerated a lot. Interestingly this is not just because of AI startups: if we strip those out there's still a big divergence. Our leading hypothesis is that US startups (even those that aren't AI companies as such) are adopting new technologies (AI stablecoins etc.) faster than companies elsewhere. (This"
X Link 2025-11-03T22:07Z 583.1K followers, 554.2K engagements
"Came across this summary that pulls together some of the recent findings on the links between commonplace (including ostensibly "harmless") pathogens and long-term harm to human health. The war on infectious diseases is far from over"
X Link 2025-11-15T22:27Z 583K followers, 298.6K engagements
"With some slight prompt modifications"
X Link 2025-12-01T15:36Z 583K followers, 119.9K engagements
"Two conversations this weekend make me think that there's a vibe shift afoot in Silicon Valley around what one should work on and what is worthwhile. Culturally it feels like the moment is ripe for new frameworks: Davos expert morality is stale and discredited. It's also apparent that the "just be super based" Counter-Enlightenment is not really an answer. (Yes woke went too far but simply inverting it doesn't work.) EA is no longer the automatic default for smart people. There's increasing skepticism of slot and slop machine dynamics. Overall "what is worthy and valuable" feels like it's"
X Link 2025-12-08T23:28Z 583K followers, 1.6M engagements
"The @tempo public testnet is live"
X Link 2025-12-09T15:07Z 583K followers, 78.1K engagements