I’ve also written extensively on issues within the existential and global catastrophic risks field, and I’m honored that I’ve become the third most prolific GCR/X-risk researcher by one measure* and my GCR work...
I spent a few minutes trying to understand how you derived “third most prolific” from that source but couldn’t figure it out. Could you unpack it?
Sure - we wrote a script to analyze this database for frequency of X-risk authors. We had to use some judgment on combining authors with slightly different entries (like the inclusion of a middle initial or not). So there is some uncertainty, and this database is a combination of human and machine learning algorithms, so there will be some debate about which papers to include in the existential risk field.
I spent a few minutes trying to understand how you derived “third most prolific” from that source but couldn’t figure it out. Could you unpack it?
Sure - we wrote a script to analyze this database for frequency of X-risk authors. We had to use some judgment on combining authors with slightly different entries (like the inclusion of a middle initial or not). So there is some uncertainty, and this database is a combination of human and machine learning algorithms, so there will be some debate about which papers to include in the existential risk field.
Prolific means number of papers authored?
That’s right.