I’m really confused by your code and the results given I did a hand count of both Bostrom and Torres’ papers on google scholar and their websites and your count seems off. Bostrom definitely has more than 15 papers and Torres definitely has less than 12.
Also it seems like you excluded object level papers? I’m confused why I’m not seeing Whittlestone here. I don’t think people should take this as good data.
What exactly confused you about the code? It only strips down the names and counts them.
That the publications by someone are under counted makes sense, given how TERRA works, as likely not all publications are captured in the first place and probably not all publications were considered existential risk relevant. When I look at Bostrom’s papers I see several that I would not count as directly x-risk relevant.
Where exactly did you find the number for Torres? On their own website (https://www.xriskology.com/scholarlystuff) they have listed 15 papers and the list only goes to 2020. Since then Torres published several more papers, so this checks out.
I personally did not exclude any papers. I simply used the existing TERRA database. Interestingly, the database only contains one paper by Whittlestone. Seems like the current key words used by TERRA did not catch Whittlestone’s work. So, yes this is an undercount.
I’m really confused by your code and the results given I did a hand count of both Bostrom and Torres’ papers on google scholar and their websites and your count seems off. Bostrom definitely has more than 15 papers and Torres definitely has less than 12.
Also it seems like you excluded object level papers? I’m confused why I’m not seeing Whittlestone here. I don’t think people should take this as good data.
What exactly confused you about the code? It only strips down the names and counts them.
That the publications by someone are under counted makes sense, given how TERRA works, as likely not all publications are captured in the first place and probably not all publications were considered existential risk relevant. When I look at Bostrom’s papers I see several that I would not count as directly x-risk relevant.
Where exactly did you find the number for Torres? On their own website (https://www.xriskology.com/scholarlystuff) they have listed 15 papers and the list only goes to 2020. Since then Torres published several more papers, so this checks out.
I personally did not exclude any papers. I simply used the existing TERRA database. Interestingly, the database only contains one paper by Whittlestone. Seems like the current key words used by TERRA did not catch Whittlestone’s work. So, yes this is an undercount.