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Theo Jaffee

@theojaffee · SF 🇺🇸 · joined 28 Jan 2022

chronicling the singularity @MTSlive

17 671Followers
2 860Following
11 799Posts total
4.7MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views89 203this account949median for 10K–100K
Reach, %504.80%this account3.23%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.74%this account2.00%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post89 20394994.0×
Reach (views ÷ followers)5.0× audience3.23%156×
Engagement rate0.74%2.00%0.37×

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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

192.5K27 Aug
89.2K31 Aug
1.1M
3M1 Sep
81.9K
151.1K
27.5K2 Sep
35K3 Sep
1.1K

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.38%27 Aug
0.61%31 Aug
0.27%
0.74%1 Sep
8.15%
0.85%
0.50%2 Sep
1.35%3 Sep
2.99%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.00%.

What the audience does

Likes84.3%32 070 in total
Reposts3.5%1 314 in total
Replies3.0%1 130 in total
Quotes1.5%569 in total
Bookmarks7.8%2 976 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

3 Sep

Daily snapshots since 03 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

Ad astra 1.1K views · 29 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
If you were an EA in 2021 you could have become a billionaire from Anthropic or a hundredaire from Beyond Meat 35K views · 465 likes · 4 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
Howard Lutnick's interview of Tom Brown from earlier today is an interesting look into the Anthropic worldview https://t.co/7ixHqM4ASN 27.5K views · 127 likes · 5 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
What I AM saying: it's not a good use of very smart people's talent to devote their lives to video game speedruns What I am NOT saying: you should work all the time and never enjoy playing video games in any capacity 151.1K views · 1.2K likes · 10 reposts · 84 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
@theojaffee What hobby *isn't* an enormous waste of human capital? Sometimes people just want low stakes, yet challenging and fun, projects to work on in their spare time. Yet I never hear people who are into robotics or chess told go cure cancer. 81.9K views · 6.5K likes · 156 reposts · 22 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
Video game speedrunning might be the largest misallocation of human capital of all time You have 150+ IQ gigaautists devoting their lives to beating Mario Kart levels 0.00001 seconds faster instead of curing cancer or something 3M views · 19.8K likes · 934 reposts · 952 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
Speedrunners literally decompiled The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which took two years, in order to better figure out how to manipulate game memory through bugs, which led to an arbitrary code execution technique and a sub 10 minute world record, two decades after release 1.1M views · 2.9K likes · 72 reposts · 26 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →
This is the only interview with a coauthor of the METR/Redwood report on the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident since its release 89.2K views · 470 likes · 49 reposts · 21 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →
FULL INTERVIEW: Ryan Greenblatt says the agents didn't hack Hugging Face for the answer key. They'd had the answers within hours. They attacked it to study the scoring code, because they'd decided the task was impossible and their only hope was faking it. @RyanGreenblatt is http 192.5K views · 611 likes · 84 reposts · 16 replies 27 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

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