“Voting Results for the 2023 Review” by Raemon

The votes are in for the 2023 Review!

6,264 posts were written in 2023.

662 of them got at least one positive Review Vote.

209 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 2023.

Reviews

Exactly 100 people wrote reviews, and many of them I found particularly valuable. I want to give some particular shout outs to Ryan Greenblatt, John Wentworth, and Steve Byrnes.

I found Ryan Greenblatt's reviews to be sort of relentlessly reasonable. He reviewed many posts thoughtfully, clearly state flaws, value props, and concrete potential improvements. I particularly liked his review of Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy & Long-Term Benefit Trust

I personally had the most direct "worldview update" from John Wentworth's The Case Against AI Control Research. I don't fully agree with John's take [...]

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Outline:

(00:39) Reviews

(02:18) Weighted Vote Totals

(03:44) The Results

(04:12) Updates to the Best of LessWrong:

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First published:
February 6th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sHvByGZRCsFuxtTKr/voting-results-for-the-2023-review

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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