196 of them got at least one review, and a positive review-vote total.
50 of them shall be displayed in the Best of LessWrong, Year 2024.
Reviews
94 people wrote reviews. This year had Vanessa Kosoy holding down the fort. Among many other positive qualities, one thing I especially appreciate about Vanessa's reviews is that Vanessa has an opinionated, coherent worldview, and the subjects of her reviews aren't strongly correlated with the kinds posts other reviewers tend to focus on.
A shout out to Zack Davis for being the most disagreed-with reviewer - I didn't agree with all of his reviews, but I disagreed with them less than the LessWrong voters did, and at least one of them influenced my voting[1], which not many reviews accomplished.
Some other reviews I found particularly interesting[2] included John Wentworth's review of On Green, Rudolf's review of his own post reviewing Planecrash, and Thomas's review of John's postmortem.
363 of you voted! 135 cast the 6 or more votes required to leave your ballot icon on the homepage, visible for everyone to see for the last few days of the voting phase.
Alignment Faking in Large Language Modelsryan_greenblatt, evhub, Carson Denison, Benjamin Wright, Fabien Roger, Monte M, Sam Marks, Johannes Treutlein, Sam Bowman, Buck
Congratulations to Joe Carlsmith for driving his enemies before him winning this year's review, capturing both 1st place, and also landing a total of 6 posts in the top 50!
But, also like last year, we're displaying the "raw" vote strength of each vote in the results section, before being multiplied by your Strong Vote power, to better preserve anonymity.
The votes are in for the 2024 Review!
4,826 posts were written in 2024.
671 of them were nominated.
196 of them got at least one review, and a positive review-vote total.
50 of them shall be displayed in the Best of LessWrong, Year 2024.
Reviews
94 people wrote reviews. This year had Vanessa Kosoy holding down the fort. Among many other positive qualities, one thing I especially appreciate about Vanessa's reviews is that Vanessa has an opinionated, coherent worldview, and the subjects of her reviews aren't strongly correlated with the kinds posts other reviewers tend to focus on.
A shout out to Zack Davis for being the most disagreed-with reviewer - I didn't agree with all of his reviews, but I disagreed with them less than the LessWrong voters did, and at least one of them influenced my voting[1], which not many reviews accomplished.
Some other reviews I found particularly interesting[2] included John Wentworth's review of On Green, Rudolf's review of his own post reviewing Planecrash, and Thomas's review of John's postmortem.
Here is a cut from the top of the Review Leaderboard:
Operational Details
Like last year, we weighed the impact of review votes by your Strong Vote power[3].
The Results
363 of you voted! 135 cast the 6 or more votes required to leave your ballot icon on the homepage, visible for everyone to see for the last few days of the voting phase.
Here are the results:
Congratulations to Joe Carlsmith for
driving his enemies before himwinning this year's review, capturing both 1st place, and also landing a total of 6 posts in the top 50!Updates to the Best of LessWrong: Coming Soon.
In the intended direction!
Which are also not generally the reviews I most agreed with.
But, also like last year, we're displaying the "raw" vote strength of each vote in the results section, before being multiplied by your Strong Vote power, to better preserve anonymity.