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?

Robin Hanson

Robin Hanson

@robinhanson

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#3 0.043269 Rationality
#32 0.002048 Effective Altruism
#40 0.002315 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#69 0.001848 Social Epistemology
#71 0.001692 Progress Studies
#163 0.000973 Bismark Analysis
#209 0.000618 RadicalxChange
#338 0.000356 The Long Now Foundation
#678 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#727 0.000003 Fair Vote
#786 0.000174 Works in Progress
#788 0.000226 Heterodox Academy
#853 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#875 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#912 0.000003 Existential Risks
#970 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#989 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#1017 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1173 0.000074 Populist Libertarians
#1234 0.000003 350.org
#1421 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1457 0.000076 Persuasion Community
#1966 0.000027 Anarachists
#2406 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2565 0.000027 Harper's Open Letter
#2721 0.000032 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2825 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3039 0.000031 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#4597 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5272 0.000001 EFF
#7129 0.000009 Ecomodernists
#7192 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7854 0.000001 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#2 0.024041 Mercatus Center
#238 0.000553 RAND Corporation
#727 0.000106 Berggruen Institute
#1213 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1388 0.000101 Niskanen Center
#1407 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1644 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#2108 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2579 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3151 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3157 0.000031 Hoover Institution
#3367 0.000028 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#4074 0.000032 American Enterprise Institute
#4074 0.000032 National Bureau of Economic Research
#4976 0.000005 Hudson Institute
#5069 0.000001 Earth Institute
#5680 0.000003 Adam Smith Institute
#7113 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#7979 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Crypto

#13 0.005842 Public Goods Funding
#28 0.003290 Ethereum
#97 0.001847 Crypto Political Economy
#353 0.000377 Crypto Infrastructure
#580 0.000183 Crypto Investing
#599 0.000247 Crypto VC
#625 0.000142 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#725 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#790 0.000087 Cosmos
#875 0.000102 Decentralized Web
#914 0.000003 Polkadot
#1069 0.000121 Crypto Journalists
#1785 0.000027 Crypto Angels
#2024 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2952 0.000033 IDEO Founder Collective

system

#117 0.000885 Think Tanks
#727 0.000175 Baseline
#1011 0.000101 Reality-Based Community

Venture Capital

#239 0.000851 Y Combinator
#533 0.000301 Village Global
#543 0.000267 Initialized Capital
#710 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#784 0.000003 Founders Fund
#973 0.000134 Khosla Ventures
#1233 0.000003 Accel
#1295 0.000108 A16Z
#1637 0.000003 Sequioa
#2449 0.000001 Bessemer
#2891 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#2984 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3103 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3496 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#3820 0.000001 Homebrew

Journalism

#229 0.000547 Palladium Magazine
#411 0.000277 Bloomberg Opinion
#1100 0.000003 The Information
#1388 0.000101 Foreign Policy
#1634 0.000003 Stat News
#1706 0.000001 Newsmax
#1708 0.000001 OANN
#2008 0.000003 The Verge
#2585 0.000003 The Economist
#3189 0.000003 CNBC
#3355 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#4235 0.000003 Wired
#4471 0.000003 Financial Times
#4651 0.000001 The Intercept
#5172 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5773 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6679 0.000003 VICE
#7867 0.000001 Reuters
#8126 0.000001 Techcrunch
#8640 0.000003 Washington Post
#8678 0.000002 The Dispatch
#8873 0.000001 Recode
#8898 0.000003 Wall Street Journal
#8995 0.000004 The New York Post

Science

#1286 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1640 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#2653 0.000035 Biotech
#3461 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#4080 0.000019 EconTwitter
#5338 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#856 0.000003 Rust
#1872 0.000001 Zig

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