Project Lens is an alpha-level demo. The data sets are incomplete and imbalanced and algorithm parameters are being tuned. Results should thus be considered directional. Want to provide feedback, request features, or collaborate?

Robert Wright

Robert Wright

@robertwrighter

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#1 0.035186 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#7 0.008158 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#19 0.005501 Persuasion Community
#63 0.001657 Harper's Open Letter
#65 0.001606 Effective Altruism
#124 0.001039 Works in Progress
#158 0.000722 Ecomodernists
#170 0.000764 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#447 0.000260 Rationality
#452 0.000335 Moderate Conservatism
#599 0.000214 The Long Now Foundation
#602 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#651 0.000003 Fair Vote
#779 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#799 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#837 0.000003 Existential Risks
#895 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#913 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#942 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1159 0.000003 350.org
#1247 0.000124 Progress Studies
#1346 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#2886 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2888 0.000019 Social Epistemology
#3420 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3448 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3938 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4168 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4267 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5050 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5717 0.000001 EFF
#6592 0.000001 Anarachists
#8535 0.000001 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#62 0.001291 Hoover Institution
#148 0.000748 American Enterprise Institute
#148 0.000748 National Bureau of Economic Research
#940 0.000042 Cato Institute
#1081 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1139 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1337 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1571 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1581 0.000076 Council on Foreign Relations
#1759 0.000090 Mercatus Center
#3080 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3264 0.000004 Berggruen Institute
#3276 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#5686 0.000001 Earth Institute
#5717 0.000003 Eurasia Group
#6566 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7456 0.000001 Niskanen Center
#8265 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8588 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Journalism

#145 0.000921 The Dispatch
#1028 0.000003 The Information
#1565 0.000003 Stat News
#1946 0.000003 The Verge
#2248 0.000001 OANN
#2250 0.000001 Newsmax
#2488 0.000053 Bloomberg Opinion
#2517 0.000003 The Economist
#2560 0.000031 Financial Times
#3122 0.000003 CNBC
#3291 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3334 0.000030 The Intercept
#3480 0.000036 The Atlantic
#4003 0.000027 New Yorker
#4179 0.000003 Wired
#5113 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5693 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6139 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6608 0.000003 VICE
#7456 0.000001 Foreign Policy
#8437 0.000003 Washington Post
#8745 0.000004 The New York Post
#8804 0.000003 Wall Street Journal
#9386 0.000001 Recode
#9995 0.000001 Reuters

Science

#699 0.000032 Philosophy Twitter
#1211 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3395 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#5796 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#8642 0.000001 Biotech

system

#4862 0.000027 Think Tanks

Venture Capital

#635 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#710 0.000003 Founders Fund
#1161 0.000003 Accel
#1571 0.000003 Sequioa
#2090 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2971 0.000001 Bessemer
#3169 0.000010 Village Global
#3365 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3510 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3589 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3972 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4252 0.000001 Homebrew
#5322 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6390 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Crypto

#649 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#790 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#838 0.000003 Polkadot
#2551 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3526 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3607 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3653 0.000001 Cosmos
#4514 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4577 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6073 0.000001 Ethereum
#6349 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6956 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8789 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9399 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#780 0.000003 Rust
#2414 0.000001 Zig

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