You can see the full voting results here: 1000+ karma voters (All voters)

The 2019 Review votes are in!

This year, 88 voters participated, evaluating 116 posts. (Of those voters, 61 had 1000+ karma, and will be weighted more highly in the moderation team's decision of what to include in the Best of 2019 Books)

The LessWrong Moderation team will be reflecting on these results and using them as a major input into "what to include in the 2019 books."

Top Results

The top 15 results from the 1000+ karma users are:

What failure looks like by Paul Christiano
Risks from Learned Optimization: Introduction, by evhub, Chris van Merwijk, vlad_m, Joar Skalse and Scott Garrabrant
The Parable of Predict-O-Matic, by Abram Demski
Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success, by Scott Alexander
Being the (Pareto) Best in the World, by Johnswentworth
Rule Thinkers In, Not Out, by Scott Alexander
Book summary: Unlocking the Emotional Brain, by Kaj Sotala
Asymmetric Justice, by Zvi Mowshowitz
Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists, by Zack Davis
1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled, by Scott Alexander
Selection vs Control, by Abram Demski
You Have About Five Words, by Raymond Arnold
The Schelling Choice is "Rabbit", not "Stag", by Raymond Arnold
Noticing Frame Differences, by Raymond Arnold
"Yes Requires the Possibility of No", by Scott Garrabrant

Top Reviewers

Meanwhile, we also had a lot of great reviews. One of the most valuable things I found about the review process was that it looks at lots of great posts at once, which led me to find connections between them I had previously missed. We'll be doing a more in-depth review of the best reviews later on, but for now, I wanted to shoutout to the people who did a bunch of great review work.

The top reviewers (aggregating the total karma of their review-comments) were:

Some things I particularly appreciated were:

johnswentworth, Zvi and others providing fairly comprehensive reviews of many different posts, taking stock of how some posts fit together.
Jacobjacob and magfrump who stuck out in my mind for doing particularly "epistemic spot check" type reviews, which are often more effortful.

Complete Results (1000+ Karma)

You can see the full voting results here: 1000+ karma voters (All voters)

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