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Summary of the Twelve Virtues of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky

  1. Curiosity - a burning itch to know
  2. Relinquishment - “That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.” - P. C. Hodgell
  3. Lightness - surrender to the truth as quickly as you can
  4. Evenness - do not seek to argue for one side or another, for if you knew your destination, you would already be there
  5. Argument - strive for exact honesty and seek a test that lets reality judge between you
  6. Empiricism - knowledge comes from observation and prediction ⇒ manifests in the experiences you anticipate
  7. Simplicity - “Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  8. Humility - take specific actions in anticipation of your own errors
  9. Perfectionism - the more errors you correct in yourself, the more you notice
  10. Precision - the narrowest statements slice deepest
  11. Scholarship - study many sciences such as evolutionary psychology, heuristics and biases, social psychology, probability theory, decision theory and others
  12. Intention - strike naturally and with purpose

Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7ZqGiPHTpiDMwqMN2/twelve-virtues-of-rationality

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