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Timothy B. Lee

Timothy B. Lee

@binarybits

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#2 0.057218 Ars Technica
#71 0.001889 Foreign Policy
#275 0.000468 Washington Post
#608 0.000227 The Dispatch
#1360 0.000067 Palladium Magazine
#1833 0.000074 The Intercept
#1875 0.000071 Bloomberg Opinion
#1915 0.000070 The Atlantic
#2063 0.000018 The Daily Beast
#2237 0.000059 Recode
#2956 0.000024 Financial Times
#3208 0.000001 The Information
#3274 0.000001 OANN
#3284 0.000001 Newsmax
#3720 0.000001 Stat News
#4038 0.000001 The Verge
#4248 0.000003 Techcrunch
#4653 0.000001 The Economist
#5254 0.000001 CNBC
#5569 0.000017 New Yorker
#5582 0.000008 The New York Post
#6052 0.000001 Wired
#6698 0.000002 Reuters
#7046 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7661 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8527 0.000001 VICE
#9588 0.000007 The New York Times

Culture and Political Economy

#58 0.002110 Social Epistemology
#123 0.000964 Rationality
#279 0.000471 Works in Progress
#324 0.000325 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#471 0.000340 Progress Studies
#710 0.000160 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#737 0.000123 Effective Altruism
#1015 0.000121 The Long Now Foundation
#1580 0.000053 Harper's Open Letter
#1672 0.000078 Moderate Conservatism
#2855 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2902 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3005 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3038 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3078 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3104 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3109 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3156 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3385 0.000001 350.org
#3563 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3830 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3832 0.000020 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#3964 0.000018 Persuasion Community
#4344 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4620 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4950 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#5100 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5251 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5948 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6595 0.000001 EFF
#7665 0.000001 Anarachists
#7727 0.000007 Ecomodernists
#9683 0.000001 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#71 0.001889 Niskanen Center
#194 0.000703 Mercatus Center
#484 0.000212 Cato Institute
#756 0.000194 American Enterprise Institute
#756 0.000194 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1082 0.000144 Center for American Progress
#2090 0.000062 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#2540 0.000011 Adam Smith Institute
#3282 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3336 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3525 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3746 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4351 0.000028 Brookings
#4514 0.000018 Hoover Institution
#4566 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#4950 0.000004 Eurasia Group
#5154 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5643 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#6676 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7233 0.000014 Council on Foreign Relations
#7446 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7677 0.000001 Hudson Institute

Crypto

#380 0.000378 Crypto Journalists
#932 0.000147 Public Goods Funding
#1313 0.000083 Ethereum
#2900 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2980 0.000014 Crypto Investing
#2999 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3069 0.000001 Polkadot
#3523 0.000005 Decentralized Web
#3546 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4498 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4582 0.000001 Cosmos
#4659 0.000015 Crypto VC
#5681 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6176 0.000006 IDEO Founder Collective

system

#920 0.000103 Reality-Based Community
#946 0.000163 Baseline
#1369 0.000112 Think Tanks

Science

#1759 0.000065 EconTwitter
#2897 0.000052 Epidemiology Journalism
#3418 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3827 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4033 0.000020 Biotech
#5480 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Venture Capital

#2451 0.000046 Initialized Capital
#2560 0.000024 Village Global
#2876 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2920 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3351 0.000001 Accel
#3421 0.000019 Khosla Ventures
#3728 0.000001 Sequioa
#3959 0.000001 Bessemer
#4184 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4297 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4499 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4525 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4895 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5112 0.000001 Homebrew
#5542 0.000016 A16Z

Software Engineering

#3008 0.000001 Rust
#3428 0.000001 Zig

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