We're extending the Discussion Phase of the 2024 Annual Review. 

One thing I'm particularly hoping for is to get more in-depth reviews (especially critical ones) of the posts that currently look likely to be in the top-10 or so. (Ideally the entire top 50, but seemed particularly worthwhile to give serious evaluations of the most heavily upvoted ideas).

Eyeballing the reviews and top posts so far, I think posts could use to get more thorough, evaluative attention than they're currently getting.

There's been some debate this year about whether we should care more about "what's great about a post" vs "what was lacking." Ideally, we'd have posts that are great without major flaws, and in my ideal world, the Annual Review results in posts with notable errors getting fixed.

In practice, people disagree about what counts as an error, or what errors are particularly egregious. Some errors are quick for an author to fix, some are more gnarly and maybe the author disagrees about the extent to which they are an error.

The solution we've found for now is to make reviews more prominent on Best Of LessWrong posts, and try to aim for a world where if there is major disagreement, controversy or important considerations about a post, future people will see that disagreement.

Currently we do this by including a one-line comment wherever the Spotlight showsup. We may invest more in that over time. 

This also means if you wrote a review that got 10+ karma, it's probably worth optimizing the first line to convey whatever information you'd like someone casually skimming the site to read. 

You can look over the current leaderboard for reviewers to get a sense of which of your reviews might be worth polishing.^[1]

If you know of someone who's already written a blogpost or other public response to some works, it'd be helpful to write a short review linking to it and explaining it's most significant takeaways.

The Top 50 as of Jan 1

We don't continuously update the results of the nomination votes, to discourage strategic voting. But, here were the results as-of a couple weeks ago.

You might want to note both whether there are posts you think are over/underrated that you want to write in support of. 

Posts need at least 1 review to make it to the final voting phase.

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   (Note, these karma scores subtract your own self-upvote)

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   Posts without reviews won't appear in Final Voting Phase