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?

Paul Graham

Paul Graham

@paulg

paulgraham.com

1334820 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#6 0.016153 Y Combinator
#7 0.007116 Initialized Capital
#12 0.007064 Khosla Ventures
#27 0.003185 Village Global
#29 0.005707 Founders Fund
#29 0.003140 A16Z
#55 0.002309 My Climate Journey
#65 0.000015 Standard Crypto
#73 0.002214 Sequioa
#84 0.001688 Sutter Hill Ventures
#194 0.000706 Benchmark Capital
#355 0.000488 Homebrew
#622 0.000015 Accel
#759 0.000111 Index Ventures
#1010 0.000044 Bessemer

Culture and Political Economy

#7 0.008208 Progress Studies
#11 0.006779 Social Epistemology
#13 0.006384 Rationality
#14 0.006370 The Long Now Foundation
#17 0.000015 Schumacher Circle
#18 0.006947 Bismark Analysis
#18 0.005093 Heterodox Academy
#23 0.002791 Effective Altruism
#64 0.001829 Works in Progress
#67 0.000015 Fair Vote
#72 0.001195 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#157 0.000789 Climate Solutions
#163 0.000682 Ecomodernists
#199 0.000380 Harper's Open Letter
#204 0.000015 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#220 0.000015 Extinction Rebellion
#239 0.000411 Populist Libertarians
#255 0.000015 Existential Risks
#285 0.000478 RadicalxChange
#335 0.000015 Claremont Institute
#352 0.000015 Ecosocialism
#376 0.000015 Sierra Clib
#408 0.000280 Persuasion Community
#502 0.000312 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#591 0.000015 350.org
#667 0.000172 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#783 0.000015 Environmental Defense Fund
#1682 0.000008 Environmental Journalists
#2140 0.000034 Degrowth
#3017 0.000008 Anarachists
#3749 0.000021 Moderate Conservatism
#3882 0.000008 Black Lives Matter
#4569 0.000008 EFF

Crypto

#27 0.003415 Crypto VC
#30 0.003898 Public Goods Funding
#47 0.002132 Ethereum
#64 0.000015 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#137 0.000863 Decentralized Web
#170 0.000800 IDEO Founder Collective
#239 0.000015 Crypto Political Economy
#254 0.000015 Polkadot
#275 0.000343 Cosmos
#304 0.000433 Crypto Infrastructure
#316 0.000385 Crypto Investing
#430 0.000297 Crypto Angels
#989 0.000073 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1748 0.000025 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2443 0.000008 Crypto Journalists

Think Tanks

#20 0.003539 Mercatus Center
#92 0.001483 Niskanen Center
#322 0.000401 Hoover Institution
#522 0.000015 RAND Corporation
#587 0.000015 Belfer Center
#707 0.000188 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#795 0.000015 Urban Institute
#910 0.000015 Heritage Foundation
#1001 0.000151 American Enterprise Institute
#1001 0.000151 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1217 0.000015 Cato Institute
#1297 0.000008 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1476 0.000105 Center for American Progress
#1983 0.000017 Adam Smith Institute
#2006 0.000017 Berggruen Institute
#2145 0.000027 Eurasia Group
#2268 0.000015 Atlantic Council
#2776 0.000015 Hudson Institute
#3071 0.000008 Earth Institute
#3153 0.000042 Brookings
#3833 0.000030 Council on Foreign Relations
#5416 0.000008 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Journalism

#62 0.001929 Palladium Magazine
#92 0.001483 Foreign Policy
#229 0.000442 Bloomberg Opinion
#483 0.000015 The Information
#550 0.000360 Wired
#582 0.000209 Ars Technica
#681 0.000201 Recode
#712 0.000179 The Atlantic
#806 0.000008 OANN
#819 0.000008 Newsmax
#922 0.000015 Stat News
#1188 0.000037 Techcrunch
#1420 0.000015 The Verge
#1793 0.000015 The Economist
#1795 0.000010 Reuters
#2011 0.000058 VICE
#2047 0.000015 CNBC
#2173 0.000015 The Daily Beast
#2306 0.000058 The Intercept
#2692 0.000044 New Yorker
#2926 0.000027 BuzzFeed
#3092 0.000021 Financial Times
#3332 0.000033 The Dispatch
#3398 0.000018 The New York Post
#3594 0.000015 Washington Post
#3921 0.000015 The Los Angeles Times
#5270 0.000015 Wall Street Journal
#6319 0.000016 The New York Times

Informal Community

#80 0.001128 Founders

Software Engineering

#182 0.000730 Zig
#202 0.000015 Rust

Science

#240 0.000522 EconTwitter
#518 0.000222 Biotech
#654 0.000015 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#873 0.000015 Philosophy Twitter
#1528 0.000113 Epidemiology Journalism
#2279 0.000015 Epidimiology Twitter
#5515 0.000015 ClimateTwitter

system

#869 0.000238 Think Tanks
#4112 0.000096 Baseline
#8280 0.000067 Reality-Based Community

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