Best of LessWrong: Jan 10 - Jan 17

post by knite · 2021-01-19T20:44:10.301Z · LW · GW · 4 comments

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I'm an infovore. The failure mode for an infovore is spending too much time reading and not enough time doing. I was bit especially hard by this a few days ago - I hadn't caught up on LW posts in while and had 100+ in my RSS reader. I wanted to read them all but I knew I shouldn't.

I had the same issue with Hacker News for many years. I broke the cycle by signing for for a daily "best of HN" feed, however even this proved to be too much content. I replaced it with a weekly best of digest and that's been working well for me - the digest includes the top 50 posts by votes, so that's the maximum number of enticing nuggets of content I can click.

LW doesn't have this, so I made it. Here are last week's top posts (Jan 10 00:00 EST - Jan 17 23:59 EST, with a one day lag so Sunday posts have more time to be seen):

  1. Pseudorandomness contest: prizes, results, and analysis [LW · GW] 109 points by UnexpectedValues [LW · GW] | 13 comments
  2. Covid 1/14: To Launch a Thousand Shipments [LW · GW] 104 points by Zvi [LW · GW] | 33 comments
  3. Avoid Unnecessarily Political Examples [LW · GW] 100 points by Raemon [LW · GW] | 31 comments
  4. A vastly faster vaccine rollout [LW · GW] 85 points by KatjaGrace [LW · GW] | 38 comments
  5. RationalWiki on face masks [LW · GW] 70 points by Viliam [LW · GW] | 28 comments
  6. What is going on in the world? [LW · GW] 63 points by KatjaGrace [LW · GW] | 38 comments
  7. Review of Soft Takeoff Can Still Lead to DSA [LW · GW] 62 points by Daniel Kokotajlo [LW · GW] | 10 comments
  8. Why I'm excited about Debate [LW · GW] 58 points by Richard_Ngo [LW · GW] | 12 comments
  9. Group house norms really do seem toxic to many people. [LW · GW] 52 points by deluks917 [LW · GW] | 28 comments
  10. Voting Phase for 2019 Review [LW · GW] 49 points by Raemon [LW · GW] | 6 comments
  11. Transparency and AGI safety [LW · GW] 49 points by jylin04 [LW · GW] | 12 comments
  12. The impact merge [LW · GW] 46 points by Joe Carlsmith [LW · GW] | 10 comments
  13. The Great Karma Reckoning [LW · GW] 45 points by habryka [LW · GW] | 14 comments
  14. Discussion on the choice of concepts [LW · GW] 41 points by KatjaGrace [LW · GW] | 4 comments
  15. Why Productivity Systems Don't Stick [LW · GW] 39 points by Matt Goldenberg [LW · GW] | 14 comments
  16. D&D.Sci II: The Sorceror's Personal Shopper [LW · GW] 38 points by abstractapplic [LW · GW] | 27 comments
  17. Review of 'Debate on Instrumental Convergence between LeCun, Russell, Bengio, Zador, and More' [LW · GW] 37 points by TurnTrout [LW · GW] | 1 comments
  18. Neurocryopreservation vs whole-body preservation [LW · GW] 36 points by mingyuan [LW · GW] | 10 comments
  19. Thoughts on Iason Gabriel’s Artificial Intelligence, Values, and Alignment [LW · GW] 34 points by alexflint [LW · GW] | 14 comments
  20. CollAction history and lessons learned [LW · GW] 32 points by Ron [LW · GW] | 2 comments

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comment by Kaj_Sotala · 2021-01-19T20:55:59.705Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Cool!

This link [? · GW] seems to give a similar list, though it's divided into frontpage and personal sections rather than aggregating both into one like your list does. (I would probably prefer the combined version for a weekly digest.)

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↑ comment by habryka (habryka4) · 2021-01-19T21:09:32.736Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Yep, I think that should just be the same list. You can also click on the relevant week and get a page that literally just has those posts on it: https://www.lesswrong.com/allPosts?timeframe=weekly&filter=all&sortedBy=top&after=2021-01-17&before=2021-01-24&limit=100 [? · GW] 

comment by benjaminikuta · 2021-01-20T07:17:46.922Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

You can sign up to receive "curated" posts via email, but it's a lower volume than this. 

comment by Alexey Lapitsky (alexey-lapitsky) · 2021-01-27T11:18:34.303Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Similarly to Hacker Newsletter there is a weekly digest of Lesswrong posts on Rational Newsletter.