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James Lindsay, DARPA for the culture war

James Lindsay, DARPA for the culture war

@ConceptualJames

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#9 0.004209 Populist Libertarians
#20 0.004733 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#44 0.002074 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#44 0.000009 Schumacher Circle
#74 0.001359 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#79 0.002246 Claremont Institute
#87 0.001291 Rationality
#94 0.000009 Fair Vote
#98 0.001303 Heterodox Academy
#127 0.001016 Progress Studies
#229 0.000009 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#230 0.000483 The Long Now Foundation
#232 0.000614 Social Epistemology
#246 0.000009 Extinction Rebellion
#282 0.000009 Existential Risks
#291 0.000531 Bismark Analysis
#303 0.000357 Effective Altruism
#378 0.000009 Ecosocialism
#399 0.000303 Ecomodernists
#401 0.000009 Sierra Clib
#463 0.000153 Harper's Open Letter
#616 0.000009 350.org
#743 0.000165 Persuasion Community
#810 0.000009 Environmental Defense Fund
#948 0.000139 Works in Progress
#1147 0.000133 Moderate Conservatism
#1694 0.000006 Environmental Journalists
#1805 0.000006 Climate Solutions
#1849 0.000050 RadicalxChange
#3359 0.000006 Anarachists
#3893 0.000006 Black Lives Matter
#4606 0.000006 EFF
#5737 0.000006 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#28 0.002099 Hoover Institution
#76 0.001627 Earth Institute
#124 0.001023 Mercatus Center
#164 0.000690 American Enterprise Institute
#164 0.000690 National Bureau of Economic Research
#548 0.000009 RAND Corporation
#565 0.000124 Heritage Foundation
#595 0.000133 Cato Institute
#613 0.000009 Belfer Center
#821 0.000009 Urban Institute
#1338 0.000006 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1698 0.000035 Hudson Institute
#1960 0.000047 Niskanen Center
#2444 0.000009 Atlantic Council
#2488 0.000011 Adam Smith Institute
#2951 0.000006 Berggruen Institute
#3587 0.000036 Brookings
#4325 0.000006 Eurasia Group
#4534 0.000018 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#5510 0.000006 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#8770 0.000006 Center for American Progress

Informal Community

#107 0.000815 Founders

Journalism

#233 0.000611 The Dispatch
#262 0.000544 The Intercept
#335 0.000325 Bloomberg Opinion
#376 0.000437 Wall Street Journal
#511 0.000009 The Information
#763 0.000132 The New York Post
#831 0.000006 OANN
#837 0.000006 Newsmax
#964 0.000101 Palladium Magazine
#994 0.000009 Stat News
#1470 0.000009 The Verge
#1873 0.000011 Techcrunch
#1916 0.000009 The Economist
#1960 0.000047 Foreign Policy
#2385 0.000009 CNBC
#2446 0.000007 Reuters
#2577 0.000009 The Daily Beast
#3655 0.000009 Financial Times
#3690 0.000009 Wired
#3788 0.000027 Ars Technica
#4284 0.000009 BuzzFeed
#4578 0.000009 The Los Angeles Times
#4741 0.000009 Washington Post
#5466 0.000009 VICE
#5629 0.000021 The Atlantic
#6698 0.000006 Recode
#7034 0.000013 New Yorker
#8749 0.000009 The New York Times

Crypto

#91 0.000009 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#263 0.000009 Crypto Political Economy
#270 0.000516 Ethereum
#294 0.000009 Polkadot
#784 0.000123 Crypto Investing
#1214 0.000067 Decentralized Web
#1232 0.000006 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1447 0.000072 Public Goods Funding
#2255 0.000006 Crypto Angels
#2452 0.000006 Crypto Journalists
#2456 0.000006 Cosmos
#2589 0.000038 IDEO Founder Collective
#2780 0.000006 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3500 0.000018 Crypto Infrastructure
#4591 0.000016 Crypto VC

Venture Capital

#89 0.000009 Standard Crypto
#194 0.000009 Founders Fund
#322 0.000457 Village Global
#645 0.000009 Accel
#1036 0.000009 Sequioa
#1176 0.000031 Y Combinator
#1387 0.000100 A16Z
#1671 0.000006 Bessemer
#1742 0.000078 Initialized Capital
#1761 0.000006 Index Ventures
#2188 0.000006 My Climate Journey
#2385 0.000006 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2819 0.000006 Benchmark Capital
#3246 0.000006 Homebrew
#4549 0.000006 Khosla Ventures

Science

#411 0.000341 EconTwitter
#678 0.000009 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#949 0.000009 Philosophy Twitter
#2508 0.000009 Epidimiology Twitter
#3660 0.000023 Biotech
#3942 0.000006 Epidemiology Journalism
#5614 0.000015 ClimateTwitter

system

#2238 0.000061 Think Tanks
#4943 0.000043 Baseline
#9095 0.000030 Reality-Based Community

Software Engineering

#229 0.000009 Rust
#1012 0.000006 Zig

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