Naked mole-rats: A case study in biological weirdness

19 May 2019 18:40 UTC

10 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Simple Rules of Law

19 May 2019 0:10 UTC

23 points

0 comments28 min readLW link

Simulation Typology and Termination Risks

18 May 2019 12:42 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

[Question] What are good practices for using Google Scholar to research answers to LessWrong Questions?

18 May 2019 21:44 UTC

21 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Announcing my YouTube channel

17 May 2019 17:50 UTC

39 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

“One Man’s Modus Ponens Is Another Man’s Modus Tollens”

17 May 2019 22:03 UTC

34 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Yes Requires the Possibility of No

Scott Garrabrant

17 May 2019 22:39 UTC

88 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What makes a scientific fact ‘ripe for discovery’?

17 May 2019 9:01 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Which scientific discovery was most ahead of its time?

16 May 2019 12:58 UTC

39 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Offer of collaboration and/or mentorship

16 May 2019 14:16 UTC

101 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Kevin Simler’s “Going Critical”

16 May 2019 4:36 UTC

53 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.meltingasphalt.com)

Why I’ve started using NoScript

15 May 2019 21:32 UTC

15 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Emotional valence as cognition mutator (not a bug, but a feature)

15 May 2019 12:49 UTC

9 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How to improve at critical thinking on science/medical literature?

14 May 2019 11:58 UTC

13 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Flashcards for AI Safety?

Søren Elverlin

14 May 2019 14:37 UTC

5 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Eight Books To Read

14 May 2019 17:40 UTC

56 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

Integrating disagreeing subagents

14 May 2019 14:06 UTC

56 points

10 comments21 min readLW link

In support of the inside view and a counter to modest epistemology

13 May 2019 15:21 UTC

−7 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Thinking Fast and Hard

13 May 2019 19:58 UTC

26 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Physical linguistics

13 May 2019 19:30 UTC

23 points

10 comments3 min readLW link