# Map of maps of interesting fields

I love seeing cool visualizations (maps) of interesting intellectual fields. I’m also a big fan of making [lists](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/6trt8mTsKfqJJbfJa/suggestion-eas-should-post-more-summaries-and-collections)!

Accordingly, I compiled a bunch of maps of fields that I thought were interesting. Please comment if you know of more such maps, and I’ll include them. 

**Scott Alexander’s map of Effective Altruism (**[**2020**](https://slatestarcodex.com/blog_images/ea_imagemap8.html)**)**
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**mariekedev’s mindmap of EA organisations (**[**2023**](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Avi9XgSikH5BdHzKu/mindmap-with-overview-of-ea-organisations-via-tinyurl-com)**)**
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**Hamish Doodles’** [**aisafety.world**](http://aisafety.world/) **(**[**2023**](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mDG49CJyxzeN99ELz/aisafety-world-is-a-map-of-the-ais-ecosystem)**)**
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On a side note, I would be very keen for someone to create a similar map of relevant organizations in the [biosecurity & pandemic preparedness](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/biosecurity-and-pandemics) space. I plan to post a minimum viable product (bullet point list) soon. 

**James Lin’s map of biosecurity interventions (**[**2022**](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/npNt43QRnaRNRixXK/map-of-biosecurity-interventions)**)**
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**Scott Alexander’s map of the rationality community (**[**2014**](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/05/mapmaker-mapmaker-make-me-a-map/)**)**
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**Dan Elton’s map of progress studies (**[**2021**](http://www.moreisdifferent.com/2021/11/19/map-of-progress-studies)**)**
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**Ada Nguyen’s map of the Longevity Biotech Landscape (**[**2023**](https://www.adanguyenx.com/longevity)**)**
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**Nadia Asparouhova’s map of climate tribes (**[**2022**](https://nadia.xyz/climate-tribes)**)**
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**Samuel Arbesman’s Catalog of New Types of Research Organizations (**[**2023**](https://arbesman.net/overedge/)**)**
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This one is more of a long list, but I thought it was very interesting nonetheless!

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**Honorable mentions**
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These are other mapping efforts that met my "I'm curious about it" but not my "This is super interesting" bar. Some of them also seem outdated. 

*   xkcd’s map of online communities ([2010](https://xkcd.com/802/))
*   Julia Galef’s map of the Bay Area memespace ([2013](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WzPJRNYWhMXQTEj69/a-map-of-bay-area-memespace))
*   Joe Lightfoot’s The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets (2021 & updated in [2023](https://www.joelightfoot.org/post/the-liminal-web-mapping-an-emergent-subculture-of-sensemakers-meta-theorists-systems-poets))

Shoutout to Rival Voices, who created a similar-ish collection of maps ([2023](https://rivalvoices.substack.com/p/previous-maps)), and Nadia Asparouhova, who wrote a more meta-level post about Mapping digital worlds ([2023](https://nadia.xyz/mapping-digital-worlds)).