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Good Ex­pla­na­tions (Ad­vice)

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This Good Explanations (Advice) tag is for advice on how to write good explanations.

Epistemic Legibility

Elizabeth9 Feb 2022 18:10 UTC
308 points
30 comments20 min readLW link1 review
(acesounderglass.com)

Ex­plain­ers Shoot High. Aim Low!

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Oct 2007 1:13 UTC
100 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Re­mem­ber to trans­late your thoughts back again

brook1 Nov 2022 8:49 UTC
25 points
11 comments3 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

On Say­ing the Obvious

Grognor2 Feb 2012 5:13 UTC
157 points
47 comments2 min readLW link

How to teach things well

Neel Nanda28 Aug 2020 16:44 UTC
108 points
17 comments15 min readLW link1 review
(www.neelnanda.io)

A Good Ex­pla­na­tion of Differ­en­tial Gears

Johannes C. Mayer19 Oct 2023 23:07 UTC
47 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

Pa­ter­nal Formats

abramdemski9 Jun 2019 1:26 UTC
51 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Over­com­ing the Curse of Knowledge

JesseGalef18 Oct 2011 17:39 UTC
60 points
56 comments3 min readLW link

In­fer­en­tial credit history

RyanCarey24 Jul 2013 14:12 UTC
58 points
36 comments3 min readLW link

Great Explanations

lukeprog31 Oct 2011 23:58 UTC
34 points
115 comments2 min readLW link

An In­ter­ac­tive Shap­ley Value Explainer

James Stephen Brown28 Sep 2024 5:01 UTC
41 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(nonzerosum.games)

Quan­tum Explanations

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Apr 2008 8:15 UTC
93 points
60 comments6 min readLW link

Generic ad­vice caveats

Saul Munn30 Oct 2024 21:03 UTC
27 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(www.brasstacks.blog)

Be­ing a teacher

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 14 Mar 2011 20:03 UTC
82 points
155 comments3 min readLW link