Good Explanations (Advice)

TagLast edit: 26 Nov 2021 14:33 UTC by Multicore

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

Epistemic Legibility

Elizabeth9 Feb 2022 18:10 UTC

305 points

30 comments20 min readLW link 1 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 link 1 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

Multicore 26 Nov 2021 14:33 UTC
1 point
Removed this from the page itself now that talk pages exist:
[pre-talk-page note] I think this should maybe be merged with Distillation and Pedagogy – Ray