# Prizes for Last Year's 2018 Review

About a year ago, LessWrong held it's first annual review, where we looked over the best posts from 2018. The LessWrong team offered $2000 in prizes for the top post authors, and (up to) $2000 in prizes for the best reviews of those posts.

For our [top post authors](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3yqf6zJSwBF34Zbys/2018-review-voting-results), we have decided to award.... *\*drumroll\**

*   **Abram Demski** & **Scott Garrabrant** are each awarded $200 for [Embedded Agents](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/p7x32SEt43ZMC9r7r/embedded-agents)
*   **Eliezer Yudkowsky** receives $200 for [The Rocket Alignment Problem](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Gg9a4y8reWKtLe3Tn/the-rocket-alignment-problem), and another $200 for [Local Validity as the Key to Sanity and Civilization](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WQFioaudEH8R7fyhm/local-validity-as-a-key-to-sanity-and-civilization)
*   **Paul Christiano** is awarded $200 for [Arguments about Fast Takeoff](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AfGmsjGPXN97kNp57/arguments-about-fast-takeoff)
*   **Abram Demski** receives an additional $200 for [Towards a New Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tKwJQbo6SfWF2ifKh/toward-a-new-technical-explanation-of-technical-explanation).
*   **Martin Sustrik** receives $200 for [Anti-Social Punishment](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/X5RyaEDHNq5qutSHK/anti-social-punishment)
*   **Scott Alexander** receives $200 for [The Tails Coming Apart as a Metaphor for Life](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/asmZvCPHcB4SkSCMW/the-tails-coming-apart-as-metaphor-for-life)
*   **Alkjash** receives $200 for [Babble](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i42Dfoh4HtsCAfXxL/babble)
*   **Patrick LaVictoire** $200 for [The Loudest Alarm is Usually False](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/B2CfMNfay2P8f2yyc/the-loudest-alarm-is-probably-false)

For Reviews, there are three tiers of prize ($300, $200, $100):

*   **Vanessa Kosoy** receives $300 for her reviews of Realism about rationality, Coherence arguments do not imply goal-directed behavior, and Clarifying “AI Alignment”.
*   **Zack M. Davis** receives $200 for commentary on [Meta-Honesty](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MN4NRkMw7ggt9587K/firming-up-not-lying-around-its-edge-cases-is-less-broadly), and [Decoupling vs Contextualising Norms](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GSz8SrKFfW7fJK2wN/relevance-norms-or-gricean-implicature-queers-the-decoupling)
*   **Bucky** receives $200 for his critique of Unknown Knowns
*   **Abram Demski** receives $100 for his response to [Realism about Rationality](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/suxvE2ddnYMPJN9HD/realism-about-rationality?commentId=84BeiNaGyEgWckQrq)
*   **Daniel Filan** receives $100 for a variety of reviews of [Coherence arguments](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NxF5G6CJiof6cemTw/coherence-arguments-do-not-imply-goal-directed-behavior?commentId=2ZFjTgEq4EzfQqMji), [Explain enlightenment in non-mysterious terms](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mELQFMi9egPn5EAjK/my-attempt-to-explain-looking-insight-meditation-and?commentId=WnKoW3rjCXiL6bjWR), [Realism about Rationality](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/suxvE2ddnYMPJN9HD/realism-about-rationality?commentId=KHimcbTCJtLwEFGB5), [Towards a New Impact Measure](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yEa7kwoMpsBgaBCgb/towards-a-new-impact-measure?commentId=jJrCTRwTZDZDc3XLx)
*   **Mingyuan** receives $100 for a good critique of Give Praise.
*   **Jacobian** receives $100 for his review of Intelligent Social Web.
*   **Zvi** and **Jameson Quinn** both receive $100 for lots of good short reviews.
*   **Val** receives $100 for taking the time to reflect on and rewrite his own post, The Intelligent Social Web.

Not for reviews, but for discussion in the review, $50 apiece goes to **Richard Ngo** and **Rohin Shah**.

Prizewinners, we'll reach out to you in a week or so to give you your prize-money.

Congratulations to all the winners!