Biology

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Book Review: Design Principles of Biological Circuits

johnswentworth5 Nov 2019 6:49 UTC

147 points

22 comments12 min readLW link 2 nominations 1 review

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

eukaryote19 May 2019 18:40 UTC

91 points

14 comments3 min readLW link 1 nomination

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Society Is Fixed, Biology Is Mutable

Scott Alexander11 Sep 2014 0:27 UTC

22 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

What is “protein folding”? A brief explanation

jasoncrawford1 Dec 2020 2:46 UTC

63 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

We Haven’t Uploaded Worms

jefftk27 Dec 2014 11:44 UTC

139 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

LW Biology 101 Introduction: Constraining Anticipation

virtualAdept25 May 2011 0:32 UTC

68 points

29 comments6 min readLW link

Coordination Problems in Evolution: Eigen’s Paradox

Martin Sustrik12 Oct 2018 12:40 UTC

96 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

Evolution of Modularity

johnswentworth14 Nov 2019 6:49 UTC

123 points

9 comments2 min readLW link 2 nominations 1 review

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

45 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

Book review: Why we sleep

Richard_Ngo19 Sep 2018 22:36 UTC

47 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

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

Ikaxas3 Dec 2018 8:00 UTC

34 points

18 comments16 min readLW link

Dying Outside

HalFinney5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC

275 points

88 comments2 min readLW link

Coronavirus Virology: A Beginner’s Guide

brook28 Mar 2020 20:47 UTC

25 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

Seeking suggestions: Less Wrong Biology 101

virtualAdept20 May 2011 15:28 UTC

46 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

The Case for Human Genetic Engineering

GeneSmith28 Aug 2020 22:21 UTC

44 points

19 comments12 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

9 comments1 min readLW link

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

Demeter23 Jul 2020 13:59 UTC

27 points

11 comments9 min readLW link

Historical mathematicians exhibit a birth order effect too

Eli Tyre21 Aug 2018 1:52 UTC

111 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

Can the Chain Still Hold You?

lukeprog13 Jan 2012 1:28 UTC

176 points

360 comments4 min readLW link

Hedonic asymmetries

paulfchristiano26 Jan 2020 2:10 UTC

89 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Introducing the Longevity Research Institute

sarahconstantin14 Dec 2018 20:20 UTC

79 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Bioinfohazards

Spiracular17 Sep 2019 2:41 UTC

76 points

15 comments18 min readLW link 2 nominations 2 reviews

Zetetic explanation

Benquo27 Aug 2018 0:12 UTC

87 points

138 comments6 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

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

juliawise17 Jul 2015 19:19 UTC

106 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

81 points

15 comments2 min readLW link 1 nomination

(sideways-view.com)

Have no heroes, and no villains

PhilGoetz7 Nov 2010 21:15 UTC

114 points

74 comments1 min readLW link

Notes From an Apocalypse

Toggle22 Sep 2017 5:10 UTC

56 points

25 comments14 min readLW link

How special are human brains among animal brains?

zhukeepa1 Apr 2020 1:35 UTC

71 points

38 comments7 min readLW link

The E-Coli Test for AI Alignment

johnswentworth16 Dec 2018 8:10 UTC

66 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Might humans not be the most intelligent animals?

Matthew Barnett23 Dec 2019 21:50 UTC

53 points

41 comments3 min readLW link

What is up with carbon dioxide and cognition? An offer

paulfchristiano23 Apr 2016 17:47 UTC

78 points

49 comments2 min readLW link

Cephaloponderings

Jacob Falkovich4 Aug 2019 16:45 UTC

34 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

40 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Solving sleep: just a toe-dipping

Capla30 Jun 2015 19:38 UTC

58 points

36 comments4 min readLW link

Beware of Stephen J. Gould

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Nov 2007 5:22 UTC

48 points

76 comments6 min readLW link

Group selection update

PhilGoetz1 Nov 2010 16:51 UTC

48 points

66 comments5 min readLW link

Protein Reinforcement and DNA Consequentialism

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Nov 2007 1:34 UTC

48 points

20 comments4 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

24 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

2 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

−13 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

(How) should we pursue human longevity?

Milan Cvitkovic24 Oct 2020 19:13 UTC

21 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

Now is the time to eliminate mosquitoes

James_Miller6 Aug 2016 19:10 UTC

33 points

89 comments1 min readLW link

Inhibition and the Mind

Annoyance21 May 2009 17:34 UTC

10 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

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

7 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Will Martian G be enough to make healthy baseline babies?

BossSleepy9 Mar 2021 3:30 UTC

4 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

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