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Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker

@sapinker

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#2 0.028439 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#3 0.037907 Persuasion Community
#6 0.013960 Harper's Open Letter
#27 0.002487 Effective Altruism
#36 0.002483 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#60 0.001943 Heterodox Academy
#111 0.000960 The Long Now Foundation
#120 0.000879 Ecomodernists
#145 0.000925 Works in Progress
#148 0.000774 Rationality
#185 0.000456 Existential Risks
#202 0.000475 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#213 0.000669 Progress Studies
#356 0.000397 Moderate Conservatism
#460 0.000325 Bismark Analysis
#596 0.000154 Populist Libertarians
#597 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#643 0.000226 RadicalxChange
#646 0.000003 Fair Vote
#774 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#794 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#884 0.000199 Climate Solutions
#890 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#905 0.000180 Social Epistemology
#908 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#937 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1154 0.000003 350.org
#1341 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#2375 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4570 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5246 0.000001 EFF
#5790 0.000001 Anarachists
#7816 0.000001 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#58 0.003552 Cato Institute
#85 0.001054 Hoover Institution
#146 0.000890 Mercatus Center
#231 0.000528 American Enterprise Institute
#231 0.000528 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1077 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1134 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1333 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1348 0.000104 Niskanen Center
#1566 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1616 0.000075 Council on Foreign Relations
#1676 0.000076 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1781 0.000033 Eurasia Group
#2200 0.000013 Berggruen Institute
#2519 0.000011 Adam Smith Institute
#2544 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2746 0.000014 Earth Institute
#3075 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3194 0.000031 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7369 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8651 0.000011 Brookings

Venture Capital

#62 0.002680 Sequioa
#325 0.000416 Khosla Ventures
#413 0.000340 Initialized Capital
#504 0.000294 A16Z
#630 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#705 0.000003 Founders Fund
#1060 0.000042 Bessemer
#1156 0.000003 Accel
#2085 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2865 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#2954 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3077 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3468 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#3796 0.000001 Homebrew
#4620 0.000001 Village Global

Journalism

#136 0.000969 The Dispatch
#547 0.000086 Stat News
#567 0.000212 Bloomberg Opinion
#1023 0.000003 The Information
#1348 0.000104 Foreign Policy
#1675 0.000001 Newsmax
#1677 0.000001 OANN
#1941 0.000003 The Verge
#2233 0.000060 The Atlantic
#2512 0.000003 The Economist
#2781 0.000015 Palladium Magazine
#3087 0.000021 The New York Post
#3117 0.000003 CNBC
#3286 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#4175 0.000003 Wired
#4406 0.000003 Financial Times
#4628 0.000001 The Intercept
#5108 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5688 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6352 0.000002 Reuters
#6438 0.000014 New Yorker
#6602 0.000003 VICE
#7762 0.000002 Techcrunch
#8427 0.000003 Washington Post
#8651 0.000003 Wall Street Journal
#8840 0.000001 Recode

Science

#403 0.000350 EconTwitter
#1206 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1558 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#1901 0.000030 Epidimiology Twitter
#2908 0.000031 Biotech
#3484 0.000027 Epidemiology Journalism
#6049 0.000013 ClimateTwitter

system

#870 0.000238 Think Tanks
#4688 0.000051 Baseline
#8692 0.000039 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#644 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#786 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#819 0.000169 Crypto VC
#833 0.000003 Polkadot
#1997 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2988 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3061 0.000031 IDEO Founder Collective
#3095 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3140 0.000001 Cosmos
#3386 0.000011 Crypto Investing
#3770 0.000003 Ethereum
#3822 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#3921 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4437 0.000003 Decentralized Web
#6341 0.000005 Crypto Infrastructure

Informal Community

#2361 0.000057 Founders

Software Engineering

#775 0.000003 Rust
#1840 0.000001 Zig

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