Sep 05, 2014

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Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me A Map

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https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/05/mapmaker-mapmaker-make-me-a-map/

Scott Alexander presents an interactive concept map of the rationalist community, inspired by previous community maps and showcasing various websites and adjacent communities. Longer summary

Scott Alexander presents a concept map of the rationalist community, inspired by previous maps like Julia's Map of Bay Area Memespace and xkcd's map of the Internet. The interactive map showcases various websites, blogs, and communities within and adjacent to the rationalist sphere. It includes links to these sites, with the size of each 'city' proportional to the site's Alexa rank or number of followers. The map also features external communities that have significant interaction with the rationalist community. Scott acknowledges that some omissions may be due to forgetfulness rather than intentional exclusion, and notes that for larger platforms like Twitter or Tumblr, only a selection of representatives could be included. Shorter summary

Recurring tags: rationalist community (37), community mapping (2)

I was recently looking through some old concept-maps of communities, like Julia’s Map of Bay Area Memespace, Scharlach’s Dark Enlightenment Roadmap and especially xkcd’s map of the Internet.

And I thought we should have something like that for the rationalist community. Except of course much, much better.

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Most things are links.

Links around the outer edge are places outside the rationalist community that have significant communication/cross-pollination with us.

City size is proportional to site Alexa rank (when available), number of followers (when available) or wild guess (otherwise).

If I left you out, it’s probably because I forgot about you and not because I don’t like you. Some communities like Twitter or Tumblr were so big I couldn’t include everyone, and my choices were mostly random and based on who I knew about.

Various icons taken from their rightful owners, mostly Civ2 modpacks. Sorry, rightful owners.

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