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Give it a google

Adam Zerner29 Dec 2020 5:30 UTC
145 points
28 comments7 min readLW link1 review

The First Step is to Ad­mit That You Have a Problem

Alicorn6 Oct 2009 20:59 UTC
85 points
87 comments3 min readLW link

Guess­ing the Teacher’s Password

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Aug 2007 3:40 UTC
282 points
98 comments4 min readLW link

Prob­lem Solv­ing with Mazes and Crayon

johnswentworth19 Jun 2018 6:15 UTC
152 points
28 comments7 min readLW link

Fo­cus on the Hardest Part First

Johannes C. Mayer11 Sep 2023 7:53 UTC
41 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Be­ing pa­tient with problems

Henrik Karlsson17 Oct 2023 18:30 UTC
24 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)

Two types of mathematician

drossbucket23 Feb 2018 19:26 UTC
64 points
41 comments4 min readLW link

Some notes on solv­ing hard problems

Joe Rocca19 Sep 2022 12:58 UTC
50 points
8 comments29 min readLW link

Tips and Tricks for An­swer­ing Hard Questions

Wei Dai17 Jan 2010 23:56 UTC
98 points
54 comments2 min readLW link

Hack Away at the Edges

lukeprog1 Dec 2011 13:26 UTC
89 points
53 comments3 min readLW link

How toy mod­els of on­tol­ogy changes can be misleading

Stuart_Armstrong21 Oct 2023 21:13 UTC
42 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Shadow Question

Alicorn14 Oct 2009 1:40 UTC
41 points
44 comments4 min readLW link

Mazes and Duality

14 Jul 2020 19:54 UTC
62 points
10 comments6 min readLW link

Hold Off On Propos­ing Solutions

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Oct 2007 3:16 UTC
124 points
52 comments3 min readLW link

A Clearer Think­ing tool that teaches you to use In­ter­nal Fam­ily Sys­tems concepts

spencerg28 Apr 2023 13:42 UTC
31 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(programs.clearerthinking.org)

Fake Blog Posts as a Prob­lem Solv­ing Device

silentbob31 Aug 2024 9:22 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Ne­c­es­sary, But Not Sufficient

pjeby23 Mar 2010 17:11 UTC
59 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Talk­ing to your­self: A use­ful think­ing tool that seems un­der­stud­ied and underdiscussed

chaosmage9 Sep 2014 16:56 UTC
44 points
29 comments3 min readLW link

An On­tol­ogy of Sys­temic Failures: Dragons, Bul­lshit Moun­tain, and the Cloud of Doom

ialdabaoth8 Sep 2018 18:19 UTC
29 points
28 comments5 min readLW link

Tune Your Cog­ni­tive Strategies

SquirrelInHell15 Feb 2018 17:54 UTC
40 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(bewelltuned.com)

In Search of Strate­gic Clarity

james.lucassen8 Jul 2022 0:52 UTC
11 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(jlucassen.com)
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