I understand that the title sounds like an oxymoron, however, we it seems like we do have scriptures. The Codex, HPMOR, Rationality A-Z, etc are basically required reading so that we can have a community with a fixed starting point, however they don't seem to be well compiled.
HPMOR is a complete story. The Codex and Rationality A-Z are two series of blog posts so they retread a lot of territory - has anyone tried to edit them into more coherent books?
Related, has anyone compiled a list of "Rationalist Wisdom"? Like a bunch of sayings that distill Rationalism down that we can point newbs to? I ask because I was looking for a list and couldn't find one, and pointing curious people to 1000+ page books is daunting.
I've read HPMoR and the Sequences, but I'm new to this community too, so forgive a poorly written answer.
I've found goals that focus on effort rather than results are much better. e.g. I'd re-frame your "Write X blog...", "Learn X new ...", "Read through X..." as "Spend X time writing ...", "Spend X time learning ...", "Spend X time reading..."
As a previous answer pointed out, this list is pretty focused on Less-Wrong style rationality, and not really wholistic improvement. Wholistic leveling up would focus effort on transferable skills - but that's a lot harder to do, things like: eat X servings of vegetables, wake up at the same time every... (read more)
Haha! I love your first line.
I understand what you're saying, we don't have or want a prophet, and there are all kinds of things we believe that we wouldn't want to canonize. However, there are a few things we all agree on right? Bayes Theorem + Gathering Data + certain rules of inference + ...?