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Arthur Dent

Arthur Dent

@ArthurCDent

decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm

Actually Matt Browne, Research Professor in stats and psych IRL. Co-host of Decoding the Gurus @guruspod.

2559 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#113 0.001204 Heterodox Academy
#309 0.000429 Works in Progress
#516 0.000231 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#858 0.000108 Effective Altruism
#970 0.000166 Social Epistemology
#1641 0.000074 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#1694 0.000062 Persuasion Community
#1872 0.000030 Anarachists
#2073 0.000049 Rationality
#2233 0.000061 Progress Studies
#2247 0.000034 Harper's Open Letter
#2305 0.000057 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2625 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2672 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2778 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2809 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2849 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2881 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2882 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2928 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3157 0.000001 350.org
#3335 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3555 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4075 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4283 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4673 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4967 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5686 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6333 0.000001 EFF
#8202 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#9355 0.000001 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#1308 0.000108 Niskanen Center
#3060 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3108 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3299 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3522 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3958 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4195 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#4939 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5389 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#6405 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7190 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#8603 0.000009 American Enterprise Institute
#8603 0.000009 National Bureau of Economic Research
#9185 0.000005 Mercatus Center
#9225 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9272 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#9362 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Journalism

#1308 0.000108 Foreign Policy
#2323 0.000024 Palladium Magazine
#2980 0.000001 OANN
#2982 0.000001 The Information
#2987 0.000001 Newsmax
#3498 0.000001 Stat News
#3820 0.000001 The Verge
#4432 0.000001 The Economist
#5037 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5038 0.000024 Bloomberg Opinion
#5038 0.000001 CNBC
#5611 0.000001 The Intercept
#5852 0.000001 Wired
#6302 0.000001 Financial Times
#6850 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7456 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8310 0.000001 VICE
#9880 0.000001 Recode

Venture Capital

#2647 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2692 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3125 0.000001 Accel
#3501 0.000001 Sequioa
#3675 0.000001 Bessemer
#3966 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4029 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4219 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4264 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4630 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4854 0.000001 Homebrew
#5748 0.000001 Village Global
#5966 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6933 0.000001 Khosla Ventures
#7788 0.000008 A16Z

Crypto

#2670 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2772 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2841 0.000001 Polkadot
#3260 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4214 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4265 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4314 0.000001 Cosmos
#5208 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5351 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#7006 0.000001 Ethereum
#7183 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7815 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9465 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Science

#3190 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3600 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5265 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#6385 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#9182 0.000001 Biotech

Software Engineering

#2781 0.000001 Rust
#3139 0.000001 Zig

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