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?

Ben Sixsmith

Ben Sixsmith

@BDSixsmith

bensixsmith.substack.com

Anglo writer in Poland. @TheSpectator, @UnHerd, @Quillette, @AmConMag, @ArcDigi and others. My newsletter: bensixsmith.substack.com

22340 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#27 0.004066 Works in Progress
#115 0.000734 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#128 0.001220 Bismark Analysis
#206 0.000748 Heterodox Academy
#240 0.000630 Progress Studies
#381 0.000300 Rationality
#431 0.000372 Social Epistemology
#539 0.000177 Effective Altruism
#590 0.000197 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#725 0.000199 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#735 0.000163 Ecomodernists
#795 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#843 0.000002 Fair Vote
#964 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#991 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1028 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1085 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1103 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1128 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1347 0.000002 350.org
#1534 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1685 0.000062 Persuasion Community
#1728 0.000073 Moderate Conservatism
#1871 0.000030 Anarachists
#1994 0.000040 Harper's Open Letter
#2175 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2559 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2630 0.000034 The Long Now Foundation
#2640 0.000007 Populist Libertarians
#3215 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#4367 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5069 0.000002 EFF
#7495 0.000002 Degrowth

Journalism

#68 0.001780 Palladium Magazine
#242 0.000606 The Intercept
#566 0.000170 The New York Post
#962 0.000147 Foreign Policy
#994 0.000133 Bloomberg Opinion
#1208 0.000002 The Information
#1444 0.000002 Newsmax
#1450 0.000002 OANN
#1452 0.000095 The Dispatch
#1541 0.000087 The Atlantic
#1568 0.000072 Ars Technica
#1753 0.000002 Stat News
#2112 0.000002 The Verge
#2698 0.000002 The Economist
#2699 0.000048 Wall Street Journal
#3306 0.000002 CNBC
#3450 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4325 0.000002 Wired
#4552 0.000009 The Los Angeles Times
#4575 0.000002 Financial Times
#4586 0.000016 VICE
#5273 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5315 0.000002 Techcrunch
#5976 0.000002 Reuters
#8629 0.000002 Recode
#8931 0.000002 Washington Post

Think Tanks

#285 0.000460 American Enterprise Institute
#285 0.000460 National Bureau of Economic Research
#707 0.000126 Adam Smith Institute
#811 0.000205 Mercatus Center
#872 0.000079 Berggruen Institute
#962 0.000147 Niskanen Center
#1252 0.000098 Council on Foreign Relations
#1268 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1327 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1522 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1620 0.000038 Hudson Institute
#1757 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2137 0.000052 Hoover Institution
#2221 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2237 0.000064 Brookings
#2258 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3250 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4731 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5941 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6678 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#7707 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Venture Capital

#827 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#891 0.000171 Village Global
#896 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1341 0.000002 Accel
#1742 0.000002 Sequioa
#2212 0.000002 Bessemer
#2253 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2666 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2743 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2875 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2896 0.000041 A16Z
#3270 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3615 0.000002 Homebrew
#4609 0.000002 Initialized Capital
#5822 0.000002 Khosla Ventures

system

#1677 0.000087 Think Tanks
#5073 0.000040 Baseline
#9829 0.000022 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#841 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#978 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1031 0.000002 Polkadot
#1778 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2774 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2897 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2941 0.000002 Cosmos
#3518 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3669 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4810 0.000002 Ethereum
#4901 0.000010 Crypto Infrastructure
#5243 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5831 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#5926 0.000009 Crypto VC
#7847 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective

Science

#1397 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1755 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3583 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5085 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#8124 0.000002 Biotech

Software Engineering

#971 0.000002 Rust
#1613 0.000002 Zig

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