Book Rankings i I scraped marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/category/books. I used gemini-2.5-flash because it's affordable and llama is too slow on my macbook. I had it first extract book titles from posts. I then had it compare two books at a time to see which review expressed a stronger positive sentiment. There are roughly 24.5 million such comparisons to do for an exhaustive set, but I already racked up a decent bill on gemini with 2 million comparisons so I stopped there. Thus the rankings are roughly accurate but not necessarily extremely precise. You shouldn't necessarily interpret book #5 as being better than book #6, but moreso books #1-10 being better than books #10-20.
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BT: -5.23
113 comparisons
F
BT: -5.27
132 comparisons
T
BT: -5.30
136 comparisons
T
BT: -5.32
120 comparisons
Y
BT: -5.34
117 comparisons
T
BT: -5.41
107 comparisons
D
BT: -5.41
181 comparisons
A
BT: -5.45
244 comparisons
D
BT: -5.46
168 comparisons
N
BT: -5.54
115 comparisons
M
BT: -5.75
147 comparisons
M
BT: -5.81
101 comparisons
T
BT: -5.85
104 comparisons
B
BT: -5.89
107 comparisons
M
BT: -6.06
113 comparisons
S
BT: -6.28
111 comparisons
B
BT: -6.40
110 comparisons