Raemon comments on 2018 Review: Voting Results!

[Raemon]

Here are the AF-user results (including both AF and non-AF posts)

Embedded Agents	101
The Rocket Alignment Problem	81
Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization	61
Arguments about fast takeoff	60
Coherence arguments do not imply goal-directed behavior	53
Toward a New Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation	43
The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life	43
Will AI See Sudden Progress?	41
Robustness to Scale	40
Open question: are minimal circuits daemon-free?	38
Paul’s research agenda FAQ	36
Specification gaming examples in AI	34
Clarifying “AI Alignment”	31
Anti-social Punishment	27
Babble	25
The Intelligent Social Web	24
Is Science Slowing Down?	22
Research: Rescuers during the Holocaust	21
An Untrollable Mathematician Illustrated	20
Why everything might have taken so long	20
The Costly Coordination Mechanism of Common Knowledge	19
Bottle Caps Aren’t Optimisers	19
The Loudest Alarm Is Probably False	18
Prediction Markets: When Do They Work?	18
A voting theory primer for rationalists	18
Unrolling social metacognition: Three levels of meta are not enough.	18
On Doing the Improbable	18
Toolbox-thinking and Law-thinking	17
Optimization Amplifies	17
2018 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison	16
A Sketch of Good Communication	15
A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy	14
Spaghetti Towers	13
Argument, intuition, and recursion	13
Understanding is translation	13
Inadequate Equilibria vs. Governance of the Commons	12
The Pavlov Strategy	12
Challenges to Christiano’s capability amplification proposal	12
Varieties Of Argumentative Experience	11
Beyond Astronomical Waste	11
What makes people intellectually active?	11
My attempt to explain Looking, insight meditation, and enlightenment in non-mysterious terms	10
Naming the Nameless	10
Act of Charity	10
Unknown Knowns	10
Meta-Honesty: Firming Up Honesty Around Its Edge-Cases	9
Conversational Cultures: Combat vs Nurture (V2)	9
Realism about rationality	9
Preliminary thoughts on moral weight	9
Argue Politics* With Your Best Friends	8
Player vs. Character: A Two-Level Model of Ethics	8
Towards a New Impact Measure	8
On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge	7
Caring less	7
On the Chatham House Rule	7
Circling	5
Lessons from the Cold War on Information Hazards: Why Internal Communication is Critical	5
Historical mathematicians exhibit a birth order effect too	5
Decoupling vs Contextualising Norms	4
Is Clickbait Destroying Our General Intelligence?	4
The Bat and Ball Problem Revisited	4
Being a Robust, Coherent Agent (V2)	3
Noticing the Taste of Lotus	1
The funnel of human experience	1
Competitive Markets as Distributed Backprop	0
Public Positions and Private Guts	-1
Expressive Vocabulary	-1
Everything I ever needed to know, I learned from World of Warcraft: Goodhart’s law	-1
Explicit and Implicit Communication	-3
Give praise	-3
Birth order effect found in Nobel Laureates in Physics	-4
How did academia ensure papers were correct in the early 20th Century?	-5
Metaphilosophical competence can’t be disentangled from alignment	-6
Two types of mathematician	-6
Affordance Widths	-47

[Raemon]

One of the more noteworthy-bits here, I think, is that “Are Minimal Circuits Daemon Free?” not only moves up relative to other AF posts, but is in the top-10 overall.