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 thoug

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