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.

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).

Some other places to find awesome posts (especially from 2023)

• Your own Forum Wrapped 2023, which includes a list of posts from 2023, ordered by your votes (and then karma)
  • A quick side-note: you can still mark posts as “most valuable” — we might revisit these numbers later (so having truer numbers would be useful), and you might find it nice to pull out a personal list.
• Your reading/voting/bookmarking history on the “Saved” page
• Other collections:
  • Important events from 2023 (from the EA Newsletter)
  • Some of my personal “content highlights” from 2023
  • Curated posts and the “Best of” page
  • Results from the First Decade Review
  • Forum Digest Classics
  • And outside of the Forum, places like LessWrong’s “Best of” page

Consider sharing other posts you want to highlight in the comments here.

Thanks so much…

…for posting, commenting, upvoting, marking posts as “most valuable,” giving us feedback, and more!

(I’ll also flag that if you liked a post, you could tell the author! I think it’s especially gratifying if you explain why you found it valuable, and you can DM authors if you aren’t sure about leaving a public comment.)

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   I decided to notify authors in case it's nice to see this and because readers might want to explore other things they posted, but if you don't like this, please let me know!

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    From last year: “Just dividing by karma didn’t change the list much, and dividing by karma^2 penalized karma too much — the result was a bunch of posts that only had one “most valuable” mark that just had low karma. I played with a few other ways of modifying the “underrated-ness” metric, but they didn’t seem better.”