The 5th Annual LessWrong Review has come to a close!

Review Facts

There were 5330 posts published in 2022. 

Here's how many posts passed through the different review phases.

Here how many votes and voters there were by karma bracket.

To give some context on this annual tradition, here are the absolute numbers compared to last year and to the first year of the LessWrong Review.

Review Prizes

There were lots of great reviews this year! Here's a link to all of them

Of 227 reviews we're giving 31 of them prizes. 

This follows up on Habryka who gave out about half of these prizes 2 months ago.

Note that two users were paid to produce reviews and so will not be receiving the prize money. They're still here because I wanted to indicate that they wrote some really great reviews.

Click below to expand and see who won prizes.

We'll reach out to prizewinners in the coming weeks to give you your prizes.

We have been working on a new way of celebrating the best posts of the year

The top 50 posts of each year are being celebrated in a new way! Read this companion post to find out all the details, but for now here's a preview of the sorts of changes we've made for the top-voted posts of the annual review.

And there's a new LeastWrong page with the top 50 posts from all 5 annual reviews so far, sorted into categories.

You can learn more about what we've built in the companion post.

Okay, now onto the voting results!

Voting Results

Voting is visualized here with dots of varying sizes, roughly indicating that a user thought a post was "good" (+1), "important" (+4), or "extremely important" (+9). 

Green dots indicate positive votes. Red indicate negative votes.

If a user spent more than their budget of 500 points, all of their votes were scaled down slightly, so some of the circles are slightly smaller than others.

These are the 161 posts that got a net positive score, out of 168 posts that were eligible for the vote.