That’s it folks! The votes are finalized! The Annual Review of 2020 has come to a close. So ends this yearly tradition that we use to take stock of the progress made on LessWrong, and to provide reward and feedback to the writers and researchers who produced such great works.
Donate to thank the authors (matching funds until Feb 15th 11:59pm)
Speaking of reward and feedback, this year we’re doing something new with the Review. Like normal, the LessWrong team will awarding prizes to top posts. But this year we’ll be allocating prizes from two different pools of money – the Review Vote pool, and the Unit of Caring pool.
For each pool, the review panel will be using moderator discretion. We’ll be ensuring the prizes go to posts which we believe further our cause of developing the art of rationality and intellectual progress. But for the Review Vote prize pool, our judgment will be strongly informed by the results of the vote. For the Unit of Caring prize pool, our judgment will strongly be informed by the opinions expressed by donors who contribute to the prize pool.
For the Review Vote prize, we will allocate $10,000.
For the Unit of Caring prize, we will allocate up to $5000, matching the total amount that other LessWrong users contribute to the pool. (i.e. if LessWrong users donate $4000, the pool will be $8000. If users donate $6000, then the total prize pool will be $11,000).
[Update: the donation period is now over
If you want to donate while signaling support for particular posts, you can do so using the buttons for individual posts further down the page. Here is your opportunity to not just spend internet points, but to actually spend a costly signal of support for the authors and posts you found valuable!
Donations must be made by February 10th to contribute to the matching pool.
EDIT: deadline extended to the end of February 15th
Complete Voting Results (1000+ Karma)
You can see more detailed results, including non-1000+ karma votes, here.
A total of 400 posts were nominated. 121 got at least one review, bringing them into the final voting phase. 211 users cast a total of 2877 votes. Users were asked to vote on posts they thought made a significant intellectual contribution.
Voting is visualized here with dots of varying sizes (roughly indicating that a user thought a post was “good” “important”, or “extremely important”). Green dots indicate positive votes. Red indicate negative votes. You can hover over a dot to see its exact score.
Results
Here are the posts. Note that the donation buttons don’t go directly to post authors – they are granted to the Unit of Caring prize pool. The LessWrong moderation team will be exercising some judgment, but the distribution will likely reflect the distribution of donor recommendations.
Over the next couple weeks the LessWrong team will look over the voting results, and begin thinking about how to aggregate the winning posts into the Best of LessWrong Collection.
Thanks so much to every who participated – the authors who originally wrote excellent posts, the many reviewers who gave them a lot of careful consideration, and the voters who deliberated.
Voting Results for the 2020 Review
Full voting results here. Original 2020 Review announcement here.
That’s it folks! The votes are finalized! The Annual Review of 2020 has come to a close. So ends this yearly tradition that we use to take stock of the progress made on LessWrong, and to provide reward and feedback to the writers and researchers who produced such great works.
Donate to thank the authors (matching funds until Feb 15th 11:59pm)
Speaking of reward and feedback, this year we’re doing something new with the Review. Like normal, the LessWrong team will awarding prizes to top posts. But this year we’ll be allocating prizes from two different pools of money – the Review Vote pool, and the Unit of Caring pool.
For each pool, the review panel will be using moderator discretion. We’ll be ensuring the prizes go to posts which we believe further our cause of developing the art of rationality and intellectual progress. But for the Review Vote prize pool, our judgment will be strongly informed by the results of the vote. For the Unit of Caring prize pool, our judgment will strongly be informed by the opinions expressed by donors who contribute to the prize pool.
For the Review Vote prize, we will allocate $10,000.
For the Unit of Caring prize, we will allocate up to $5000, matching the total amount that other LessWrong users contribute to the pool. (i.e. if LessWrong users donate $4000, the pool will be $8000. If users donate $6000, then the total prize pool will be $11,000).
[Update: the donation period is now over
If you want to donate while signaling support for particular posts, you can do so using the buttons for individual posts further down the page. Here is your opportunity to not just spend internet points, but to actually spend a costly signal of support for the authors and posts you found valuable!
Donations must be made by February 10th to contribute to the matching pool.
EDIT: deadline extended to the end of February 15th
Complete Voting Results (1000+ Karma)
You can see more detailed results, including non-1000+ karma votes, here.
A total of 400 posts were nominated. 121 got at least one review, bringing them into the final voting phase. 211 users cast a total of 2877 votes. Users were asked to vote on posts they thought made a significant intellectual contribution.
Voting is visualized here with dots of varying sizes (roughly indicating that a user thought a post was “good” “important”, or “extremely important”). Green dots indicate positive votes. Red indicate negative votes. You can hover over a dot to see its exact score.
Results
Here are the posts. Note that the donation buttons don’t go directly to post authors – they are granted to the Unit of Caring prize pool. The LessWrong moderation team will be exercising some judgment, but the distribution will likely reflect the distribution of donor recommendations.
That’s all (for now)
Over the next couple weeks the LessWrong team will look over the voting results, and begin thinking about how to aggregate the winning posts into the Best of LessWrong Collection.
Thanks so much to every who participated – the authors who originally wrote excellent posts, the many reviewers who gave them a lot of careful consideration, and the voters who deliberated.