Virtues of rationality

The twelve virtues of rationality were identified in an essay by Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Summarised

1. Curiosity - The burning desire to pursue truth
2. Relinquishment - Of one's own preconceptions after considered evaluations
3. Lightness - Be quick to follow the evidence
4. Evenness - Require reasonable balances of evidence in reaching beliefs
5. Argument - Don't allow other's arguments to go unchallenged
6. Empiricism - Observation of evidence
7. Simplicity - Basically Occam's razor
8. Humility - You're fallible
9. Perfectionism - Always seek a better answer
10. Precision - See above
11. Scholarship - Study many sciences
12. The Nameless Virtue - The map is not the territory?

External links

• Twelve Virtues of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky