Jonathan Stray ✓

@jonathanstray · Berkeley · joined 28 May 2008

Knowing things is a solved problem. Getting along is not. Doing the science to ensure AI results in less war, not more @CHAI_Berkeley.

10 671Followers

2 035Following

25 035Posts total

138.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views4 052this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %37.98%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.86%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	4 052	2 751	1.47×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	37.98%	9.00%	4.22×
Engagement rate	0.86%	1.65%	0.52×

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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

5.2K8 Jul

63.9K16 Aug

2.9K17 Aug

76018 Aug

28.3K29 Aug

73130 Aug

36.1K1 Sep

325

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.64%8 Jul

0.78%16 Aug

0.72%17 Aug

0.79%18 Aug

2.07%29 Aug

1.09%30 Aug

1.97%1 Sep

0.92%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes74.1%1 643 in total

Reposts6.2%137 in total

Replies2.6%57 in total

Quotes1.3%29 in total

Bookmarks15.8%351 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

Paging Dr. Susan Calvin, Robopsychologist. Asimov got this one right. She was even born in 1982. 325 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 We’re hiring for “psychological design” research at Anthropic. Our aim is to better understand how training impacts a model’s character and alignment. We’re seeking researchers with experience in LLM finetuning, interpretability, and alignment evaluations. More details below. 36.1K views · 635 likes · 47 reposts · 19 replies 01 Sep 2026 💯 As a tech designer I understand how important criticism can be, I just want better critics. 731 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 30 Aug 2026 I wish critical AI research had more of the "immersion" flavor (joining gangs to study how they work). I'd trust an anthropologist who spent a year in SF token-maxxing way more than someone who refuses to use AI and talks about the one time they used GPT 3.5. 28.3K views · 506 likes · 43 reposts · 27 replies 29 Aug 2026 This is the longer explanation behind "correlation isn't causation," and if you understand this stuff you'll hurt yourself with regressions a lot less. 760 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 18 Aug 2026 We built a new social media algorithm from the ground up that gives you full control. And we figured hey, while wer're doing that, let's design it to help people out with their conflicts. https://t.co/GgQ26FUlJn 2.9K views · 16 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 17 Aug 2026 I've probably read this paper + blog post dozens of times by now, and they remain some of the best pieces out there to revisit before getting into your own work (regardless of discipline). https://t.co/j9MWcVO0tc 63.9K views · 441 likes · 40 reposts · 11 replies 16 Aug 2026 You may remember we did a 10,000 person experiment testing AI-powered healthier feed algorithms. Well, now we’ve built it as a product for BlueSky/ATProto (because X doesn't support 3rd party algos). We are currently recruiting pre-release users to test it out and give us https: 5.2K views · 28 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 08 Jul 2026