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Feb 02, 2020
ssc
1 min 78 words 102 comments podcast
Scott Alexander creates an interactive geographic-style map visualizing the landscape of effective altruism, including cause areas, organizations, and key individuals. Longer summary
Scott Alexander presents a visual map of the effective altruism (EA) movement, inspired by his previous map of the rationalist diaspora. The map is organized as a geographical representation where continents represent cause areas, cities represent charities or organizations, and mountains represent influential individuals within the EA community. The interactive map includes clickable links with explanatory title-text for various elements. Scott acknowledges AG's assistance in setting up the imagemap functionality. Shorter summary
Sep 05, 2014
ssc
2 min 185 words 167 comments podcast
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