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

eukaryote19 May 2019 18:40 UTC

95 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Society Is Fixed, Biology Is Mutable

Scott Alexander11 Sep 2014 0:27 UTC

44 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Immune, In a Nutshell

Jsevillamol31 Jan 2022 23:07 UTC

51 points

4 comments17 min readLW link

Book Review: Design Principles of Biological Circuits

johnswentworth5 Nov 2019 6:49 UTC

200 points

24 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

eukaryote3 May 2021 3:47 UTC

320 points

53 comments7 min readLW link 2 reviews

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

The two-headed bacterium

Malmesbury10 Aug 2021 15:28 UTC

65 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

Protein Reinforcement and DNA Consequentialism

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Nov 2007 1:34 UTC

58 points

20 comments4 min readLW link

Brain Efficiency: Much More than You Wanted to Know

jacob_cannell6 Jan 2022 3:38 UTC

209 points

101 comments2 min readLW link

grey goo is unlikely

bhauth17 Apr 2023 1:59 UTC

156 points

103 comments9 min readLW link

(bhauth.com)

What is “protein folding”? A brief explanation

jasoncrawford1 Dec 2020 2:46 UTC

69 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

The 2021 Less Wrong Darwin Game

lsusr24 Sep 2021 21:16 UTC

161 points

102 comments9 min readLW link

The Case for Human Genetic Engineering

GeneSmith28 Aug 2020 22:21 UTC

49 points

19 comments12 min readLW link

Why indoor lighting is hard to get right and how to fix it

Richard Korzekwa 28 Oct 2020 4:46 UTC

192 points

51 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

Whence the sexes?

Richard_Ngo13 Feb 2022 20:40 UTC

61 points

35 comments3 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Estimating Brain-Equivalent Compute from Image Recognition Algorithms

Gunnar_Zarncke27 Feb 2022 2:45 UTC

14 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Scientific Wrestling: Beyond Passive Hypothesis-Testing

adamShimi7 Mar 2022 12:01 UTC

43 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Theories of Modularity in the Biological Literature

TheMcDouglas, Avery and Lucius Bushnaq

4 Apr 2022 12:48 UTC

49 points

13 comments7 min readLW link

Coordination Problems in Evolution: Eigen’s Paradox

Martin Sustrik12 Oct 2018 12:40 UTC

102 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

I Caught Covid And All I Got Was This Lousy Ambiguous Data

Elizabeth21 Apr 2022 19:30 UTC

47 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

It’s Probably Not Lithium

Natália Coelho Mendonça28 Jun 2022 21:24 UTC

440 points

181 comments28 min readLW link

Seeking beta readers who are ignorant of biology but knowledgeable about AI safety

Holly_Elmore27 Jul 2022 23:02 UTC

10 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Gradient Hacker Design Principles From Biology

johnswentworth1 Sep 2022 19:03 UTC

54 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Straight-edge Warning Against Physical Intimacy

Raphaëll23 Nov 2020 21:35 UTC

17 points

42 comments5 min readLW link

Sequencing Intro II: Adapters

jefftk15 Sep 2022 3:30 UTC

12 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

Gene drives: why the wait?

Metacelsus19 Sep 2022 23:37 UTC

116 points

50 comments3 min readLW link

(denovo.substack.com)

Evolution of Modularity

johnswentworth14 Nov 2019 6:49 UTC

161 points

12 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Orexin and the quest for more waking hours

ChristianKl24 Sep 2022 19:54 UTC

124 points

37 comments5 min readLW link

The Greatest Host

trentbrick10 May 2020 20:28 UTC

33 points

8 comments14 min readLW link

Assortative Mating And Autism

Scott Alexander28 Jan 2020 18:20 UTC

47 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Mini advent calendar of Xrisks: synthetic biology

Stuart_Armstrong4 Dec 2012 11:15 UTC

8 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Coronavirus Virology: A Beginner’s Guide

brook28 Mar 2020 20:47 UTC

25 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How good are our mouse models (psychology, biology, medicine, etc.), ignoring translation into humans, just in terms of understanding mice? (Same question for drosophila.)

Ruby22 Jan 2021 20:45 UTC

60 points

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Book review: Why we sleep

Richard_Ngo19 Sep 2018 22:36 UTC

48 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Seeking suggestions: Less Wrong Biology 101

virtualAdept20 May 2011 15:28 UTC

46 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

On not getting contaminated by the wrong obesity ideas

Natália Coelho Mendonça28 Jan 2023 20:18 UTC

289 points

63 comments30 min readLW link

Pandemic Prediction Checklist: H5N1

DirectedEvolution5 Feb 2023 3:26 UTC

42 points

9 comments7 min readLW link

Why Are Bacteria So Simple?

aysja6 Feb 2023 3:00 UTC

153 points

29 comments10 min readLW link

Book Review—Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Vaughn Papenhausen3 Dec 2018 8:00 UTC

34 points

18 comments16 min readLW link

LW Biology 101 Introduction: Constraining Anticipation

virtualAdept25 May 2011 0:32 UTC

69 points

29 comments6 min readLW link

We Haven’t Uploaded Worms

jefftk27 Dec 2014 11:44 UTC

157 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Maybe Antivirals aren’t a Useful Priority for Pandemics?

Davidmanheim20 Jun 2021 10:04 UTC

24 points

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[Question] What does knowing the heritability of a trait tell me in practice?

Kaj_Sotala26 Jul 2021 16:29 UTC

58 points

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A Confused Chemist’s Review of AlphaFold 2

Jemist27 Sep 2021 11:10 UTC

23 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

[Book Review] “The Vital Question” by Nick Lane

lsusr27 Sep 2021 22:50 UTC

70 points

26 comments7 min readLW link

[Book review] Who we are and how we got here

mukashi30 Sep 2021 4:26 UTC

14 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

$250 prize for checking Jake Cannell’s Brain Efficiency

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel26 Apr 2023 16:21 UTC

119 points

168 comments2 min readLW link

Biological DOOM: a brief overview of biological computation

Metacelsus29 Apr 2023 20:02 UTC

48 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(denovo.substack.com)

2021 Darwin Game—Contestants

lsusr3 Oct 2021 5:09 UTC

70 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—Tundra

lsusr5 Oct 2021 5:03 UTC

48 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

Twiblings, four-parent babies and other reproductive technology

GeneSmith20 May 2023 17:11 UTC

184 points

32 comments6 min readLW link

[Book Review] “I Contain Multitudes” by Ed Yong

Jemist4 Oct 2021 19:29 UTC

11 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Papers on protein design

alexlyzhov27 May 2023 1:18 UTC

9 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—Desert

lsusr6 Oct 2021 0:24 UTC

37 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—Ocean

lsusr6 Oct 2021 1:59 UTC

27 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—Benthic

lsusr6 Oct 2021 4:39 UTC

25 points

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2021 Darwin Game—Human Garbage Dump

lsusr6 Oct 2021 6:31 UTC

36 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—River

lsusr6 Oct 2021 7:29 UTC

30 points

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2021 Darwin Game—Everywhere Else

lsusr6 Oct 2021 20:39 UTC

48 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

Dying Outside

HalFinney5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC

354 points

90 comments2 min readLW link

[Book Review] “The Bell Curve” by Charles Murray

lsusr2 Nov 2021 5:49 UTC

92 points

134 comments23 min readLW link

Second-order selection against the immortal

Malmesbury3 Dec 2021 5:01 UTC

44 points

47 comments6 min readLW link

Are big brains for processing sensory input?

lsusr10 Dec 2021 7:08 UTC

43 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

The Patent Clerk

Alex Beyman25 Mar 2023 15:58 UTC

14 points

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Correcting a misconception: consciousness does not need 90 billion neurons, at all

bvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbv31 Mar 2023 16:02 UTC

21 points

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My experience getting funding for my biological research

Metacelsus16 Apr 2023 22:53 UTC

71 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

(denovo.substack.com)

Green goo is plausible

anithite18 Apr 2023 0:04 UTC

56 points

29 comments4 min readLW link

Are AIs like Animals? Perspectives and Strategies from Biology

Jackson Emanuel16 May 2023 23:39 UTC

1 point

0 comments21 min readLW link

Why I’m Skeptical of De-Extinction

Niko_McCarty23 Feb 2023 19:42 UTC

16 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

(cell.substack.com)

[Question] Are parasitic worms an effective weapon against MS?

Demeter23 Jul 2020 13:59 UTC

31 points

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Historical mathematicians exhibit a birth order effect too

Eli Tyre21 Aug 2018 1:52 UTC

121 points

18 comments6 min readLW link 2 reviews

Can the Chain Still Hold You?

lukeprog13 Jan 2012 1:28 UTC

197 points

361 comments4 min readLW link

Hedonic asymmetries

paulfchristiano26 Jan 2020 2:10 UTC

98 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Introducing the Longevity Research Institute

sarahconstantin14 Dec 2018 20:20 UTC

79 points

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(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Bioinfohazards

Spiracular17 Sep 2019 2:41 UTC

87 points

14 comments18 min readLW link 2 reviews

Zetetic explanation

Benquo27 Aug 2018 0:12 UTC

89 points

138 comments6 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Experiences in applying “The Biodeterminist’s Guide to Parenting”

juliawise17 Jul 2015 19:19 UTC

122 points

34 comments9 min readLW link

Global insect declines: Why aren’t we all dead yet?

eukaryote1 Apr 2018 20:38 UTC

28 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Reframing the evolutionary benefit of sex

paulfchristiano14 Sep 2019 17:00 UTC

90 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Have no heroes, and no villains

PhilGoetz7 Nov 2010 21:15 UTC

124 points

73 comments1 min readLW link

Notes From an Apocalypse

Toggle22 Sep 2017 5:10 UTC

56 points

24 comments14 min readLW link

How special are human brains among animal brains?

zhukeepa1 Apr 2020 1:35 UTC

78 points

38 comments7 min readLW link

The E-Coli Test for AI Alignment

johnswentworth16 Dec 2018 8:10 UTC

70 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Might humans not be the most intelligent animals?

Matthew Barnett23 Dec 2019 21:50 UTC

55 points

41 comments3 min readLW link

What is up with carbon dioxide and cognition? An offer

paulfchristiano23 Apr 2016 17:47 UTC

84 points

48 comments2 min readLW link

Cephaloponderings

Jacob Falkovich4 Aug 2019 16:45 UTC

39 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

Biodiversity for heretics

eukaryote27 May 2018 13:37 UTC

14 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How Old is Smallpox?

Raemon10 Dec 2018 10:50 UTC

44 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Solving sleep: just a toe-dipping

Capla30 Jun 2015 19:38 UTC

63 points

35 comments4 min readLW link

Beware of Stephen J. Gould

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Nov 2007 5:22 UTC

56 points

80 comments6 min readLW link

Group selection update

PhilGoetz1 Nov 2010 16:51 UTC

49 points

67 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Applications of Economic Models to Physiology?

johnswentworth10 Dec 2019 18:09 UTC

38 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why do humans not have built-in neural i/o channels?

Richard_Ngo8 Aug 2019 13:09 UTC

25 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

SRG 4: Biological Cognition, BCIs, Organizations

KatjaGrace7 Oct 2014 1:00 UTC

14 points

139 comments5 min readLW link

Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences (Why Big Data is not enough to capture biological systems?)

HansNauj15 Jan 2020 1:59 UTC

6 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

More Questions about Trees

digital_carver9 Oct 2020 8:35 UTC

3 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(bit-player.org)

Progress review: genome sequencing—June 2019

Yuxi_Liu29 Jun 2019 7:58 UTC

25 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Has Eliezer ever retracted his statements about weight loss?

CheerfulWarrior14 Oct 2020 19:04 UTC

−14 points

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Now is the time to eliminate mosquitoes

James_Miller6 Aug 2016 19:10 UTC

33 points

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Inhibition and the Mind

Annoyance21 May 2009 17:34 UTC

10 points

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Homogeneity vs. heterogeneity (or, What kind of sex is most moral?)

PhilGoetz22 May 2009 23:25 UTC

−6 points

79 comments2 min readLW link

[Linkpost] AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology

adamShimi30 Nov 2020 17:33 UTC

54 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

(deepmind.com)

Germs and Politics

Will_Crowley1 Mar 2021 21:57 UTC

1 point

0 comments10 min readLW link

Notes on “Bioterror and Biowarfare” (2006)

MichaelA2 Mar 2021 0:43 UTC

10 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Will Martian G be enough to make healthy baseline babies?

Randomized, Controlled9 Mar 2021 3:30 UTC

4 points

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Biological Holism: A New Paradigm?

Waddington9 May 2021 22:42 UTC

3 points

9 comments19 min readLW link

Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush

dynomight4 Jun 2021 18:14 UTC

146 points

44 comments1 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

Quantum particles and classical filaments

From_Branes_to_Brains4 Sep 2021 21:45 UTC

11 points

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Elephant seal 2

KatjaGrace2 Feb 2021 9:40 UTC

57 points

5 comments1 min readLW link 2 reviews

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Activated Charcoal for Hangover Prevention: Way more than you wanted to know

Maxwell Peterson10 Jan 2022 19:26 UTC

79 points

23 comments34 min readLW link

Nature’s answer to the explore/exploit problem

lizard_brain8 Apr 2022 5:13 UTC

5 points

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A Brief Excursion Into Molecular Neuroscience

Jan10 Apr 2022 17:55 UTC

45 points

8 comments19 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

Sequencing Intro

jefftk29 Aug 2022 17:50 UTC

39 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Do bamboos set themselves on fire?

Malmesbury19 Sep 2022 15:34 UTC

148 points

13 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Does biology reliably find the global maximum, or at least get close?

Noosphere8910 Oct 2022 20:55 UTC

24 points

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What is epigenetics?

Metacelsus6 Nov 2022 1:24 UTC

72 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

(denovo.substack.com)

The limited upside of interpretability

Peter S. Park15 Nov 2022 18:46 UTC

13 points

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Unpacking “Shard Theory” as Hunch, Question, Theory, and Insight

Jacy Reese Anthis16 Nov 2022 13:54 UTC

29 points

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Epigenetics of the mammalian germline

Metacelsus23 Dec 2022 15:21 UTC

37 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(denovo.substack.com)

Building a transhumanist future: 15 years of hplusroadmap, now Discord

kanzure17 Jan 2023 21:17 UTC

41 points

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(twitter.com)

Bioinformatics 101

iy3d22 Jan 2023 2:36 UTC

5 points

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Where are the cryptographic timestamps of all data from bio-safety level 4 laboratories?

Joseph Van Name7 Feb 2023 18:47 UTC

3 points

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The Ogdoad

Tristan Miano5 Mar 2023 20:01 UTC

−15 points

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Morality Doesn’t Determine Reality

Alex Beyman17 Mar 2023 7:11 UTC

−15 points

8 comments11 min readLW link

The Answer

Alex Beyman19 Mar 2023 0:09 UTC

1 point

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