# @Kpaxs: X profile (context) **Lists:** [[Users/@Kpaxs/Chronological List|Chronological list]] · [[Users/@Kpaxs/Topical List|Topical list]] **Posts analyzed:** - [[Users/@Kpaxs/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - Kpaxs on Judgment Abstraction and the Irony of Automation (2026-11-01)|Post Analysis, Nov 1]]: 🟡 the history (Fuller 1938, Bainbridge 1983) and the skill-decay core are sound and supported by FAA alerts and two recent studies; "forty years", "the easy 99%", "not checkable at lower cost" and the closing universal claim are rhetoric stronger than the evidence **Verbatim posts:** [[Users/@Kpaxs/Post Analyses/Post - Kpaxs on Judgment Abstraction and the Irony of Automation (2026-11-01)|Nov 1 post note]] **Topic:** [[Topics/LLMs/LLMs|LLMs]] > [!important] Interaction with [[marshallpittman]] > - No authored interaction found. Searches for @marshallpittman posts that mention, reply to or quote @Kpaxs returned 0 results, and none of his posts is among Marshall's 73 bookmarks. > - Marshall's likes list (first page, 96 items; X gives no like timestamps) holds no @Kpaxs post. > - Marshall sent the Nov 1 post as a bare link. ## Identity - **Display name:** Kpaxs · **Handle:** [@Kpaxs](https://x.com/Kpaxs) · **User ID:** 50252770 - **Bio (X profile):** "Reading widely. Thinking differently." · **Link:** threetimeswiser.substack.com - **Joined:** Jun 24, 2009 · **Location (profile):** Paris, France · **Verified:** yes (X Premium blue check) - **Real-world identity:** not stated on the profile; I did not establish a real name ⚠️. - **Newsletter:** "Three Times Wiser" on Substack, which he promotes in posts. The Nov 1 essay is an X post, not a newsletter issue. - **Pinned post:** [1490284875550703618](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/1490284875550703618) (not read). ## Stats (X API, Nov 1, 2026) | Followers | Following | Posts (lifetime) | Listed | |---:|---:|---:|---:| | 97,326 | 1,092 | 12,179 | 1,940 | About 89 followers per account followed, and 12,179 posts in 17 years. He has also liked 21,454 posts and posted 1,229 media items. ## What he posts about From the [[Users/@Kpaxs/Topical List|Topical List]] (50 items, Oct 9 to Nov 1, 11,081 likes and 450,632 views in total; 15 are quote posts and 5 are replies, all "Source:" replies): | Theme | Items | Likes | Views | |---|---:|---:|---:| | Organizations, management and process | 13 | 1,941 | 95,021 | | Learning, feedback and practice | 13 | 3,867 | 143,774 | | Habits, change and the brain | 10 | 2,040 | 89,306 | | Source replies and promotion | 5 | 13 | 6,042 | | Life choices and mindset | 4 | 1,183 | 33,785 | | Body and health | 3 | 589 | 21,659 | | AI, automation and judgment | 2 | 1,448 | 61,045 | Most of the sample is short self-improvement and management aphorisms (habits, feedback, learning, organizations). The Nov 1 essay and the Oct 30 ["Cognitive Leaseback" post](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2116059442454167985) (1,419 characters; 'The real danger lies less in the machine that would think like a man than in the man who would stop thinking because the machine does it for him') are the only two on AI. The Nov 1 essay is his most viewed and most liked post in the sample (1,414 likes, 57,765 views); the next most liked is the [Oct 25, 9:26 AM post](https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/2114362934113763360) (1,094 likes, 36,742 views). ## Style - One-idea posts of a few lines, often quote posts of other accounts' posts with a one-line comment. - Short "Source:" self-replies ending in a request to subscribe on X and to the newsletter. - Occasionally a long post (the two AI posts are 2,539 and 1,419 characters) built on an analogy: "sale-leaseback" for cognition, "stairs and lift" for skills. - Cites well-known names and papers (Fuller, Bainbridge) with little detail; the claims are usually correct in outline and loose in wording. ## Fact-check scorecard | Date (CT) | Post | Verdict | |---|---|---| | Nov 1, 2026, 1:29 AM | "Buckminster Fuller, who was wrong about a lot of things…" ([[Users/@Kpaxs/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - Kpaxs on Judgment Abstraction and the Irony of Automation (2026-11-01)\|Post Analysis]]) | 🟡 🟢 3, 🟡 12, ⚠️ 4 | Only one post has been checked. The other 49 posts in the lists, including the Cognitive Leaseback post, were **not** checked. ## Interactions - **@marshallpittman:** none authored; see the callout above. - **Repliers on the Nov 1 post** include @keith_brodie, @BrowncoatReaver (2,436 followers), @AdamShame3 (1,245) and @dr_ed_tate (1,115); the author did not reply in the 25 replies I read. - **Quote-posters** include @Chuck_Petras (4,789 followers) and @missmayad (7,415); see the Post Analysis. ## Gaps - The 50-post sample covers about three weeks. Earlier history, other replies and reposts were not read. - Follower and post counts are as X returned them on Nov 1. His real name was not established ⚠️. - Reply and quote threads on the analyzed post were read in part (25 of 74 and 22 of 43). - Quote posts' source accounts were not recorded in the pull ⚠️. - Marshall's likes: only the first page (96 items) was read, and X gives no timestamps for likes.