The Nonlinear Library LW - Announcing 'The LeastWrong' and review winner post pages by kave
Feb 28, 2024
02:31
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Announcing 'The LeastWrong' and review winner post pages, published by kave on February 28, 2024 on LessWrong.
(Also announcing: annual review prediction markets & full-height table of contents, also If you're looking for this year's review results, you can find them here)
The top 50 posts of each of LessWrong's annual reviews have a new home: The LeastWrong.
What will I see when I click that link?
You will find the posts organized into six "books": Rationality, Optimization, World, Practical, AI Strategy, and Technical AI Safety. Each square on the grid is a post that made the top 50 of the review in some year.
If you're logged-in the essays will be dark until you've read them, to help guide you to posts you've not read before.
How can I see more of a book?
If you click on the name of a book, like "Rationality", you'll get a full width view of the content.
And clicking "Show All" will let you see all posts in the category.
How are the collections ordered?
The collections are ordered more-or-less to put the most accessible posts in the most prominent spots.
What about grouping by years?
If you group by "year" you will see the top ~50 posts for each year, in order of their review rank.
What happens when I click on one of the posts?
You'll be taken to the new "review top 50" post page.
What are the little gold buttons above the title?
Reviews!
Where does LessWrong link to this page?
In the sidebar, under Library, there's a link to LeastWrong.
Any other goodies?
Full height table of contents with a progress bar!
Markets on whether posts with over 100 karma will make it in to the top 50 of their year's review!
With golden highlighted karma if it's predicted with more than 50%!
Why did you make this?
Many of us on the team want to celebrate the posts that LessWrong voted as the best of the year.
Historically we've printed annual review books, but only a small fraction of people who read the essays got to experience the books, and the effort that went into the books felt disconnected from the rest of the site. They also took a really long time to make, and required constant ongoing attention from the Lightcone team to handle logistics of shipping and sales and new print runs.
It seemed more appropriate to put effort into making the reading experience of these essays on LessWrong itself a more memorable and rewarding experience.
But what were the results of this year's review?
Read all about it in Ben's post!
That's it
I hope some of you really like it. And report any bugs with this new stuff in intercom in the bottom right.
Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org
(Also announcing: annual review prediction markets & full-height table of contents, also If you're looking for this year's review results, you can find them here)
The top 50 posts of each of LessWrong's annual reviews have a new home: The LeastWrong.
What will I see when I click that link?
You will find the posts organized into six "books": Rationality, Optimization, World, Practical, AI Strategy, and Technical AI Safety. Each square on the grid is a post that made the top 50 of the review in some year.
If you're logged-in the essays will be dark until you've read them, to help guide you to posts you've not read before.
How can I see more of a book?
If you click on the name of a book, like "Rationality", you'll get a full width view of the content.
And clicking "Show All" will let you see all posts in the category.
How are the collections ordered?
The collections are ordered more-or-less to put the most accessible posts in the most prominent spots.
What about grouping by years?
If you group by "year" you will see the top ~50 posts for each year, in order of their review rank.
What happens when I click on one of the posts?
You'll be taken to the new "review top 50" post page.
What are the little gold buttons above the title?
Reviews!
Where does LessWrong link to this page?
In the sidebar, under Library, there's a link to LeastWrong.
Any other goodies?
Full height table of contents with a progress bar!
Markets on whether posts with over 100 karma will make it in to the top 50 of their year's review!
With golden highlighted karma if it's predicted with more than 50%!
Why did you make this?
Many of us on the team want to celebrate the posts that LessWrong voted as the best of the year.
Historically we've printed annual review books, but only a small fraction of people who read the essays got to experience the books, and the effort that went into the books felt disconnected from the rest of the site. They also took a really long time to make, and required constant ongoing attention from the Lightcone team to handle logistics of shipping and sales and new print runs.
It seemed more appropriate to put effort into making the reading experience of these essays on LessWrong itself a more memorable and rewarding experience.
But what were the results of this year's review?
Read all about it in Ben's post!
That's it
I hope some of you really like it. And report any bugs with this new stuff in intercom in the bottom right.
Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org