I was comparing to a broader activation of Eliezer’s audience vs any given tweet.
Outperforming the ‘average’ is the wrong standard for ‘blowing up’. ‘Blowing up’ would be ‘outperforming all the recent similar artifacts’, at least as I intended it in my original post.
Meta: it feels pretty strange to have used an underspecified colloquial term, to have walked back the applicability of that term as I intended to use it, and then to be told I’m wrong for walking it back. The point I cared about capturing in that edit is ‘this tweet didn’t do as well as I expected when it first dropped.’ That’s a claim about my own expectations.
The point I care about is whether it’s gotten to a substantial audience of ‘normal’ people. I had read you as making claims that that hadn’t really happened; yet it looks to me that, to the extent that twitter’s viewcount is reasonable (though I believe you that it probably isn’t), a million people who are mostly Bernie Sanders fans got exposed to the video. If you only meant that this is less than what you expected, then that’s my bad and we don’t have any disagreement.
I was comparing to other video posts by Sanders.
I was comparing to a broader activation of Eliezer’s audience vs any given tweet.
Outperforming the ‘average’ is the wrong standard for ‘blowing up’. ‘Blowing up’ would be ‘outperforming all the recent similar artifacts’, at least as I intended it in my original post.
Meta: it feels pretty strange to have used an underspecified colloquial term, to have walked back the applicability of that term as I intended to use it, and then to be told I’m wrong for walking it back. The point I cared about capturing in that edit is ‘this tweet didn’t do as well as I expected when it first dropped.’ That’s a claim about my own expectations.
The point I care about is whether it’s gotten to a substantial audience of ‘normal’ people. I had read you as making claims that that hadn’t really happened; yet it looks to me that, to the extent that twitter’s viewcount is reasonable (though I believe you that it probably isn’t), a million people who are mostly Bernie Sanders fans got exposed to the video. If you only meant that this is less than what you expected, then that’s my bad and we don’t have any disagreement.