Review prizes will be posted in a response to this comment.
Some logistical notes: I’m going to be announcing prizes roughly every week during the discussion phase, focusing on reviews made since the last prizes were announced. By default, we’ll wait until the end of the period to actually award the prizes (so that we only need to send people one larger transfer if they win multiple prizes), but if you’d like it sooner just send a private message to me or Raemon with your paypal address.
I was going to give Ruby a prize for his review of How uniform is the neocortex?, but Raemon informs me that Lightcone Infrastructure Team members are ineligible, so retracting that prize.
[edited to increase Vanessa’s prize amount; Ray convinced me that rather than going back at the end to give out larger prizes to a wider pool, more signal as we go is more useful.]
Book keeping summary – Total prizes for reviewers in the 2020 Review:
$600 AllAmericanBreakfast
$500 johnswentworth
$400 Vanessa Kosoy
$200 Steven Byrnes
$200 Zvi
$100 each to abramdemski, adamzerner, CharlieSteiner, Daniel Kokotajlo, Davidmanheim, Elizabeth, magfrump, MondSemmel, Neel Nanda, niplav, nostalgebraist, philh, Richard Korzekwa, Turntrout, Vika, Yoav Ravid, and Zack_M_Davis
Review prizes will be posted in a response to this comment.
Some logistical notes: I’m going to be announcing prizes roughly every week during the discussion phase, focusing on reviews made since the last prizes were announced. By default, we’ll wait until the end of the period to actually award the prizes (so that we only need to send people one larger transfer if they win multiple prizes), but if you’d like it sooner just send a private message to me or Raemon with your paypal address.
First set of prizes:
$100 each to:
Daniel Kokotajlo on An overview of 11 proposals for building safe advanced AI
Davidmanheim on Inner Alignment: Explain like I’m 12 Edition
Richard Korzekwa on Why indoor lighting is hard to get right and how to fix it
abramdemski on Conflict vs. mistake in non-zero-sum games
I was going to give Ruby a prize for his review of How uniform is the neocortex?, but Raemon informs me that Lightcone Infrastructure Team members are ineligible, so retracting that prize.
Some people continued reviewing during the Voting Phase, and I found many of them helpful.
So, a final $100 each to:
Vika for adding new/updated examples for Possible takeaways from the coronavirus pandemic for slow AI takeoff.
Turntrout on Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction
Elizabeth on How to Escape From Moral Mazes.
Great reviews so far! :D
Second set of prizes:
$200 to:
Vanessa Kosoy on The ground of optimization
$100 each to:
johnswentworth on The Pointers Problem: Human Values Are A Function of Humans’ Latent Variables
nostalgebraist on GPT-3: a disappointing paper
adamzerner on Embedded Interactive Predictions on LessWrong
Charlie Steiner on To listen well, get curious
Neel Nanda on How to teach things well
[edited to increase Vanessa’s prize amount; Ray convinced me that rather than going back at the end to give out larger prizes to a wider pool, more signal as we go is more useful.]
I continue to be impressed by the reviews that are coming out; keep it up! :D
Third set of prizes:
Honorable mention (since he works for Lightcone, and so is ineligible for prizes) to Ben Pace’s Controversial Picks for the 2020 Review.
$200 to:
johnswentworth on The Solmonoff Prior is Malign
$100 each to:
AllAmericanBreakfast on Seeing the Smoke
AllAmericanBreakfast on Motive Ambiguity
philh on Motive Ambiguity
AllAmericanBreakfast on Most Prisoner’s Dilemmas are Stag Hunts; Most Stag Hunts are Schelling Problems
magfrump on When Money Is Abundant, Knowledge Is The Real Wealth
AllAmericanBreakfast on Simulacra and Subjectivity
AllAmericanBreakfast on Interfaces as a Scarce Resource
Book keeping summary – Total prizes for reviewers in the 2020 Review:
$600 AllAmericanBreakfast
$500 johnswentworth
$400 Vanessa Kosoy
$200 Steven Byrnes
$200 Zvi
$100 each to abramdemski, adamzerner, CharlieSteiner, Daniel Kokotajlo, Davidmanheim, Elizabeth, magfrump, MondSemmel, Neel Nanda, niplav, nostalgebraist, philh, Richard Korzekwa, Turntrout, Vika, Yoav Ravid, and Zack_M_Davis
Fourth set of prizes (which is larger than previous sets to reflect the longer time period since the third set of prizes, apologies for the delay):
$200 to:
Steven Byrnes on Inner Alignment in Salt-Starved Rats
$100 each to:
Zack_M_Davis on The date of AI Takeover is not the day the AI takes over
johnswentworth on Why Neural Networks Generalise, and Why They Are (Kind of) Bayesian
AllAmericanBreakfast on Coordination as a Scarce Resource
Yoav Ravid on The Treacherous Path to Rationality
Vanessa Kosoy on An Orthodox Case Against Utility Functions
Vanessa Kosoy on The Solomonoff Prior is Malign
niplav on Anti-Aging: State of the Art
Zvi on Reality-Revealing and Reality-Masking Puzzles
johnswentworth on Subspace optima
Zvi on Seemingly Popular Covid-19 Model is Obvious Nonsense
MondSemmel on Covid 12/24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over
Honorable mention to Bucky on Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction, which I liked but isn’t eligible as Bucky was separately hired to write reviews.