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Sean Carroll

Sean Carroll

@seanmcarroll

preposterousuniverse.com

Physics, philosophy, complexity; thinking, writing, talking. @Caltech & @SFIscience. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @JenLucPiquant. He/him.

283792 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#77 0.001755 Social Epistemology
#100 0.000811 Persuasion Community
#128 0.001092 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#153 0.000751 Rationality
#320 0.000336 Effective Altruism
#324 0.000223 Harper's Open Letter
#887 0.000196 Heterodox Academy
#1133 0.000114 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2020 0.000047 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2250 0.000032 Degrowth
#3063 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3109 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3212 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3246 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3286 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3309 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3314 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3363 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3593 0.000001 350.org
#3770 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#5355 0.000002 Anarachists
#5934 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#6416 0.000006 The Long Now Foundation
#6419 0.000000 Bismark Analysis
#7001 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#7060 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#7173 0.000009 Ecomodernists
#7341 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#7468 0.000000 Works in Progress
#7978 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#8569 0.000000 EFF

Science

#269 0.000401 Philosophy Twitter
#1543 0.000118 ClimateTwitter
#3623 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3968 0.000020 EconTwitter
#5687 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#8472 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism

Journalism

#1114 0.000087 The Verge
#3411 0.000001 The Information
#3925 0.000001 Stat News
#4853 0.000001 The Economist
#4856 0.000021 New Yorker
#5429 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5452 0.000001 CNBC
#5464 0.000000 OANN
#5483 0.000000 Newsmax
#5498 0.000022 The Atlantic
#6237 0.000001 Wired
#6392 0.000010 Wall Street Journal
#6707 0.000001 Financial Times
#7224 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7721 0.000000 The Intercept
#7844 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#7998 0.000010 The New York Times
#8037 0.000004 The New York Post
#8707 0.000001 VICE
#8831 0.000000 Palladium Magazine

Venture Capital

#1992 0.000051 Village Global
#3084 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#3127 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3553 0.000001 Accel
#3927 0.000001 Sequioa
#4377 0.000001 Y Combinator
#6115 0.000000 Bessemer
#6389 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#6607 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#6659 0.000000 Index Ventures
#6963 0.000000 Benchmark Capital
#7105 0.000000 Homebrew
#8306 0.000000 Initialized Capital
#8953 0.000000 Khosla Ventures

Crypto

#2139 0.000050 IDEO Founder Collective
#3108 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3205 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3275 0.000001 Polkadot
#5724 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#6606 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#6619 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#6649 0.000000 Cosmos
#7590 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#7822 0.000004 Crypto VC
#7899 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#9684 0.000000 Decentralized Web
#9791 0.000000 Ethereum

Think Tanks

#2603 0.000039 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#3486 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3541 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3728 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3952 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4371 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5314 0.000015 Mercatus Center
#5350 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#7206 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#7662 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#8702 0.000000 Earth Institute

system

#6788 0.000022 Baseline
#9026 0.000032 Reality-Based Community

Software Engineering

#3209 0.000001 Rust
#5624 0.000000 Zig

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