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@mr_scientism · joined 07 Nov 2014

infinite zeal

34 221Followers
49Following
24 379Posts total
62.6KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

If we get AI capable of replicating all human expertise, that makes the political will for industrial expansion the bottleneck to development, but the political will for industrial expansion has been the bottleneck to development in the US for the last 50 years. 2.2K views · 75 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Imagine the levels of service economy dominance we’ll be able to achieve when every knowledge worker has a superintelligent agent. 2.8K views · 39 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
@mr_scientism The cold war era is far more interesting than most people know. Global pseudo liberalism vs global pseudo communism. 482 views · 18 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@mr_scientism Maybe that's the appeal of Tokyo for Westerners today. It feels like the kind of city we were supposed to build according to the og promise of modernity. 519 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@mr_scientism The absence of a western civilizational project is in fact the civilizational project of what we might delicately call Israel 694 views · 19 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
In the same sense that Japan ‘Westernized’ during the Meiji Restoration, the West ‘de-Westernized’ during the Cold War. This was called ‘anti-utopianism’, ‘anti-totalitarianism‘, ‘pluralism’, etc. That is, opposition to civilization having a philosophical project. 12.6K views · 466 likes · 53 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →
@mr_scientism It gets worse: after 9/11 the U.S. corporate media rebranded the U.S. economy a “consumer economy”. 989 views · 24 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@mr_scientism More fiction has been written in Excel than in Word. 1.7K views · 134 likes · 12 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@mr_scientism The service sector is the state admitting it has no capacity to utilize all its human capital in productive ways. 1.8K views · 114 likes · 12 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
A ‘service economy’ is a declining industrial economy with creative national accounting. 35K views · 2K likes · 369 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →
Western civilization is a project, but it’s the Western philosophical project, not the self-destructive political project of ‘liberal pluralism’. 3.7K views · 131 likes · 6 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views1 758this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %5.14%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %3.74%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post1 7589241.90×
Reach (views ÷ followers)5.14%3.62%1.42×
Engagement rate3.74%1.52%2.46×

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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

3.7K1 Sep
35K3 Sep
1.8K
1.7K
989
12.6K4 Sep
694
519
482
2.8K5 Sep
2.2K8 Sep

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

3.86%1 Sep
6.91%3 Sep
7.22%
8.45%
2.43%
4.17%4 Sep
3.03%
1.54%
3.73%
1.49%5 Sep
3.74%8 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes77.5%3 048 in total
Reposts11.7%460 in total
Replies0.8%31 in total
Quotes0.6%22 in total
Bookmarks9.5%373 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.

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