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: Posts from 2023 you thought were valuable (and underrated), published by Lizka on March 22, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.

I'm sharing:

a list of posts that were marked as "most valuable" by the most people (who marked posts as "most valuable" in Forum Wrapped 2023), and

a list of posts that were most underrated by karma relative to the number of "most valuable" votes.

These lists are not objective or "true" collections of the most valuable and underrated posts from 2023. Relatively few people marked posts as "most valuable," and I imagine that those who did, didn't do it very carefully or comprehensively. And there are various factors that would bias the results (like the fact that we ordered posts by upvotes and karma on the "Wrapped" page, people probably remember more recent posts more, etc.).

Consider commenting if there are other posts you would like to highlight!

This post is almost identical to last year's post: Posts from 2022 you thought were valuable (or underrated).

Which posts did the most Forum users think were "most valuable"?

Note that we ordered posts in "Wrapped" by your own votes, followed by karma score, meaning higher-karma posts probably got more "most valuable" votes.

"Most valuable" count

Author(s)[1]

Title

28

@Peter Wildeford

EA is three radical ideas I want to protect

28

@Ariel Simnegar

Open Phil Should Allocate Most Neartermist Funding to Animal Welfare

24

@AGB

10 years of Earning to Give

14

@Bob Fischer

Rethink Priorities' Welfare Range Estimates

13

@Rockwell

On Living Without Idols

12

@Nick Whitaker

The EA community does not own its donors' money

11

@Jakub Stencel

EA's success no one cares about

11

@tmychow, @basil.halperin , @J. Zachary Mazlish

AGI and the EMH: markets are not expecting aligned or unaligned AI in the next 30 years

10

@Luke Freeman

We can all help solve funding constraints. What stops us?

10

@zdgroff

How Long Do Policy Changes Matter? New Paper

9

@kyle_fish

Net global welfare may be negative and declining

9

@ConcernedEAs

Doing EA Better

7

@Lucretia

Why I Spoke to TIME Magazine, and My Experience as a Female AI Researcher in Silicon Valley

7

@Michelle_Hutchinson

Why I love effective altruism

7

@JamesSnowden

Why I don't agree with HLI's estimate of household spillovers from therapy

7

@Ren Ryba

Reminding myself just how awful pain can get (plus, an experiment on myself)

7

@Amy Labenz

EA is good, actually

7

@Ben_West

Third Wave Effective Altruism

6

@Ben Pace

Sharing Information About Nonlinear

6

@Zachary Robinson

EV updates: FTX settlement and the future of EV

6

@NunoSempere

My highly personal skepticism braindump on existential risk from artificial intelligence.

6

@leopold

Nobody's on the ball on AGI alignment

6

@saulius

Why I No Longer Prioritize Wild Animal Welfare

6

@Elika

Advice on communicating in and around the biosecurity policy community

6

@Derek Shiller, @Bernardo Baron, @Chase Carter, @Agustín Covarrubias, @Marcus_A_Davis, @MichaelDickens, @Laura Duffy, @Peter Wildeford

Rethink Priorities' Cross-Cause Cost-Effectiveness Model: Introduction and Overview

6

@Karthik Tadepalli

What do we really know about growth in LMICs? (Part 1: sectoral transformation)

6

@Nora Belrose

AI Pause Will Likely Backfire

Which were most underrated by karma?

I looked at the number of people who had marked something as "most valuable," and then divided by [karma score]^1.5. (This is what I did last year, too.[2]) We got more ratings this year, so my cutoff was at least three votes this year (vs. two last year).

"Most valuable" count

Author(s)

Title

3

@RobBensinger er

The basic reasons I expect AGI ruin

3

@Zach Stein-Perlman

AI policy ideas: Reading list

3

@JoelMcGuire, @Samuel Dupret, @Ryan Dwyer, @MichaelPlant, @mklapow, @Happier Lives Institute

Talking through depression: The cost-effectiveness of psychotherapy in LMICs, revised and...