The votes are in!

59 of the 430 eligible voters participated, evaluating 75 posts. Meanwhile, 39 users submitted a total of 120 reviews, with most posts getting at least one review.

Thanks a ton to everyone who put in time to think about the posts - nominators, reviewers and voters alike. Several reviews substantially changed my mind about many topics and ideas, and I was quite grateful for the authors participating in the process. I'll mention Zack_M_Davis, Vanessa Kosoy, and Daniel Filan as great people who wrote the most upvoted reviews.

In the coming months, the LessWrong team will write further analyses of the vote data, and use the information to form a sequence and a book of the best writing on LessWrong from 2018.

Below are the results of the vote, followed by a discussion of how reliable the result is and plans for the future.

Top 15 posts

Embedded Agents by Abram Demski and Scott Garrabrant
The Rocket Alignment Problem by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Arguments about fast takeoff by Paul Christiano
The Costly Coordination Mechanism of Common Knowledge by Ben Pace
Toward a New Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation by Abram Demski
Anti-social Punishment by Martin Sustrik
The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life by Scott Alexander
Babble by alkjash
The Loudest Alarm Is Probably False by orthonormal
The Intelligent Social Web by Valentine
Prediction Markets: When Do They Work? by Zvi
Coherence arguments do not imply goal-directed behavior by Rohin Shah
Is Science Slowing Down? by Scott Alexander
A voting theory primer for rationalists by Jameson Quinn and Robustness to Scale by Scott Garrabrant

Top 15 posts not about AI

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