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A place to live: Galena Forest, Nevada

#3226​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 8 months ago​·​Criticized2

A place to live: Incline Village, Nevada

#3222​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 8 months ago​·​Criticized3

A place to live: Prescott, Arizona

#3216​·​Benjamin DaviesOP revised 8 months ago​·​Original #3215​·​Criticized4

A place to live: Prescott Arizona

#3215​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 8 months ago​·​Criticized1

Fluoridated water.

#3203​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 8 months ago​·​CriticismCriticized1

At sea level, so fails altitude criterion in #2294.

#3199​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 8 months ago​·​CriticismCriticized1

A place to live: Greenwich, London, United Kingdom

#3197​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 8 months ago​·​Criticized12

Auckland tap water is drinkable, but fluoride is added.

#3190​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 8 months ago​·​CriticismCriticized1

A place to live: North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand

#3187​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 8 months ago​·​Criticized8

I would like to have kids one day. I should find places that allow kids to pursue their interests with minimal or no legally required education standards infringing in that.

#3184​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 8 months ago​·​Criticized1

I am a life-long nail-biter. I am thinking a habit like nail-biting can be thought of as an addiction in this way.

I have an explicit preference for letting my nails grow normally, and an inexplicit/unconscious preference for removing rough/uneven parts of my nails as soon as possible (this part seems entrenched).

#3183​·​Benjamin Davies, 8 months ago​·​Criticized3

It would be nice if I could collapse the 'submit top-level idea' form. It currently takes up a third of my screen when I scroll on PC.

#3182​·​Benjamin Davies, 8 months ago​·​CriticismCriticized1Archived

Obsidian autopairs markdown syntax and brackets. I like it a lot and would like Veritula to have something similar!

#3171​·​Benjamin Davies, 8 months ago​·​Criticized1Archived

For something to be a core virtue, it needs to be a virtue that should always be applied in any situation where it can be applied. Forgiveness is not something that should be applied in relevant all situations, so I don’t believe it is a core virtue.

At best it would be an applied virtue, as an expression of Justice.

I actually think people are too forgiving in some ways.

I’ll think about adding it to the applied virtues list.

#3169​·​Benjamin DaviesOP revised 8 months ago​·​Original #3167​·​CriticismCriticized2

For something to be a core virtue, I think it should be a virtue that should always be applied in any situation where it can be applied. Forgiveness is not something that should be applied in relevant all situations, so I don’t believe it is a core virtue.

At best it would be an applied virtue, as an expression of Justice.

I actually think people are too forgiving in some ways.

I’ll think about adding it to the applied virtues list.

#3167​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 9 months ago​·​CriticismCriticized1

Core Moral Virtues (influenced by Ayn Rand and CR)

  • Rationality: The commitment to the ongoing deliberate use of conjecture and criticism, and to only adopting ideas that have no pending criticisms.

  • Honesty: A refusal to evade one's thoughts, a commitment to searching for one's own errors, and a refusal to fake reality to others.

  • Integrity: The refusal to permit a breach between one's convictions and one's actions.

  • Independence: The acceptance of one's own mind as the first and final executor of rationality within their own lives.

  • Justice: The application of rationality in judging ideas, people, and actions, and acting on those evaluations proportionately.

  • Productiveness: The application of rationality to sustaining and improving one's life and circumstances.

  • Pride: An insatiable drive to find and fix errors in one's character, knowledge, and creations. “[M]oral ambitiousness”, as Ayn Rand puts it.

#3162​·​Benjamin DaviesOP revised 9 months ago​·​Original #3089​·​Criticized1

Core Moral Virtues (influenced by Ayn Rand and CR)

  • Rationality: The commitment to the ongoing deliberate use of conjecture and criticism, and to only adopting ideas that have no pending criticisms.

  • Honesty: A refusal to evade one's thoughts, a commitment to searching for one's own errors, and a refusal to fake reality to others.

  • Integrity: The refusal to permit a breach between one's convictions and one's actions.

  • Independence: The acceptance of one's own mind as the first and final executor of rationality within their own lives.

  • Justice: The application of rationality in judging ideas, people, and actions and acting on those evaluations proportionately.

  • Productiveness: The application of rationality to sustaining and improving one's life and circumstances.

  • Pride: An insatiable drive to find and fix errors in one's character, knowledge, and creations. “Moral ambitiousness” as Ayn Rand puts it.

#3146​·​Benjamin DaviesOP revised 9 months ago​·​Original #3089​·​Criticized2

There is overlap but I don’t think that is necessarily a bad thing. Many virtues overlap. The purpose of identifying them is to draw focus to different aspects of virtuous as such. Conscientiousness and thoroughness are quite similar, but I think different enough to merit mentioning both.

Excellence and pride are more similar IMO, but I think that it is fine to feature both.

#3145​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 9 months ago​·​CriticismCriticized1

Good question. It is not something I have thought about much myself, but I wanted to allow for the possibility that people may want to discuss keeping their digital devices tidy, not just physical spaces.

I suppose digital tidiness would consist of organising your computer, phone, or tablet in such a way that it is straightforward to find things when you need them, and it isn't overwhelming at any point.

#3122​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 9 months ago​·​Criticized1

Applied Virtues

  • Curiosity: The drive to find new problems and generate conjectures.

  • Self-Criticism: The primary tool of intellectual honesty.

  • Clarity: The virtue of refining thoughts to be less ambiguous and easier to criticise.

  • Epistemic Humility: The consistent recognition of one's own fallibility.

  • Thoroughness: The commitment to accounting for all known uncontroverted ideas and pending criticisms that may pertain to the problem at hand. {This seems weak}

  • Good Faith: The commitment to "steel-manning" ideas and criticisms.

  • Resilience / Fortitude: The ability to recover from failure and re-apply the process.

  • Decisiveness: The will to act once a conjecture is provisionally accepted and criticism is exhausted.

  • Self-Discipline: {This one needs work. I don't understand it well enough to write a good summary.}

  • Courage: The will to face the potential pains of the epistemic process (facing uncomfortable truths, acting on counter-intuitive conclusions, thinking alone).

  • Accountability: A social manifestation of integrity; the willingness to "own" the consequences of one's actions.

  • Reliability: The practice of meeting one's voluntary commitments.

  • Proportionality: The skill of acting proportionately to a given situation, criticism or event.

  • Intellectual Impartiality: The skill of separating the content of an idea from its source, allowing criticism to be applied fairly.

  • Fairness: The consistent application of the same critical standards to all ideas.

  • Intellectual Patience: The willingness to give a problem the time it needs, rather than using a problematic solution (a solution with pending criticisms). {Okay but what if it is an emergency?}

  • Foresight & Planning: The application of conjecture and criticism to problems pertaining to future circumstances.

  • Diligence / Industriousness: The sustained application of effort to the problem-solving process, usually to a particular problem.

  • Creativity / Ingenuity: The skill of generating novel conjectures and criticisms.

  • Efficiency: The drive to reduce the work, resources or steps it takes to solve problems.

  • Resourcefulness: The skill of solving problems within constraints.

  • Purposefulness: The skill of defining a hierarchy of problems to solve, ensuring one's productive effort is directed at goals worth pursuing.

  • Focus: The ability to sustain mental effort.

  • Sharpness: Raw mental processing power.

  • Energy / Vitality: The capacity to be highly productive, especially over long durations.

  • Athleticism / Physicality: The capacity of the body to execute actions.

  • Memory: The ability to store and retrieve important conjectures and criticisms.

  • Conscientiousness: The opposite of negligence. A commitment to making genuine efforts; not cutting corners.

  • Excellence: The opposite of mediocrity. Man can go “as high as his ability will carry him” (The Virtue of Selfishness, ch. 12).

#3094​·​Benjamin DaviesOP revised 9 months ago​·​Original #3090​·​Criticized1

Applied Virtues

  • Curiosity: The drive to find new problems and generate conjectures.

  • Self-Criticism: The primary tool of intellectual honesty.

  • Clarity: The virtue of refining thoughts to be less ambiguous and easier to criticise.

  • Epistemic Humility: The consistent recognition of one's own fallibility.

  • Thoroughness: The commitment to accounting for all known uncontroverted ideas and pending criticisms that may pertain to the problem at hand. {This seems weak}

  • Good Faith: The commitment to "steel-manning" ideas and criticisms.

  • Resilience / Fortitude: The ability to recover from failure and re-apply the process.

  • Decisiveness: The will to act once a conjecture is provisionally accepted and criticism is exhausted.

  • Self-Discipline: {This one needs work. I don't understand it well enough to write a good summary.}

  • Courage: The will to face the potential pains of the epistemic process (facing uncomfortable truths, acting on counter-intuitive conclusions, thinking alone).

  • Accountability: A social manifestation of integrity; the willingness to "own" the consequences of one's actions.

  • Reliability: The practice of meeting one's voluntary commitments.

  • Proportionality: The skill of acting proportionately to a given situation, criticism or event.

  • Intellectual Impartiality: The skill of separating the content of an idea from its source, allowing criticism to be applied fairly.

  • Fairness: The consistent application of the same critical standards to all ideas.

  • Intellectual Patience: The willingness to give a problem the time it needs, rather than using a problematic solution (a solution with pending criticisms). {Okay but what if it is an emergency?}

  • Foresight & Planning: The application of conjecture and criticism to problems pertaining to future circumstances.

  • Diligence / Industriousness: The sustained application of effort to the problem-solving process, usually to a particular problem.

  • Creativity / Ingenuity: The skill of generating novel conjectures and criticisms.

  • Efficiency: The drive to reduce the work, resources or steps it takes to solve problems.

  • Resourcefulness: The skill of solving problems within constraints.

  • Purposefulness: The skill of defining a hierarchy of problems to solve, ensuring one's productive effort is directed at goals worth pursuing.

  • Focus: The ability to sustain mental effort.

  • Sharpness: Raw mental processing power.

  • Energy / Vitality: The capacity to be highly productive, especially over long durations.

  • Athleticism / Physicality: The capacity of the body to execute actions.

  • Memory: The ability to store and retrieve important conjectures and criticisms.

#3092​·​Benjamin DaviesOP revised 9 months ago​·​Original #3090​·​Criticized1

Applied Virtues

  • Curiosity: The drive to find new problems and generate conjectures.

  • Self-Criticism: The primary tool of intellectual honesty.

  • Clarity: The virtue of refining thoughts to be less ambiguous and easier to criticise.

  • Epistemic Humility: The constant recognition of one's own fallibility.

  • Thoroughness: The commitment to accounting for all known uncontroverted ideas and pending criticisms that may pertain to the problem at hand. {This seems weak}

  • Good Faith: The commitment to "steel-manning" ideas and criticisms.

  • Resilience / Fortitude: The ability to recover from failure and re-apply the process.

  • Decisiveness: The will to act once a conjecture is provisionally accepted and criticism is exhausted.

  • Self-Discipline: {This one needs work. I don't understand it well enough to write a good summary.}

  • Courage: The will to face the potential pains of the epistemic process (facing uncomfortable truths, acting on counter-intuitive conclusions, thinking alone).

  • Accountability: A social manifestation of integrity; the willingness to "own" the consequences of one's actions.

  • Reliability: The practice of meeting one's voluntary commitments.

  • Proportionality: The skill of acting proportionately to a given situation, criticism or event.

  • Intellectual Impartiality: The skill of separating the content of an idea from its source, allowing criticism to be applied fairly.

  • Fairness: The consistent application of the same critical standards to all ideas.

  • Intellectual Patience: The willingness to give a problem the time it needs, rather than using a problematic solution (a solution with pending criticisms). {Okay but what if it is an emergency?}

  • Foresight & Planning: The application of conjecture and criticism to problems pertaining to future circumstances.

  • Diligence / Industriousness: The sustained application of effort to the problem-solving process, usually to a particular problem.

  • Creativity / Ingenuity: The skill of generating novel conjectures and criticisms.

  • Efficiency: The drive to reduce the work, resources or steps it takes to solve problems.

  • Resourcefulness: The skill of solving problems within constraints.

  • Purposefulness: The skill of defining a hierarchy of problems to solve, ensuring one's productive effort is directed at goals worth pursuing.

  • Focus: The ability to sustain mental effort.

  • Sharpness: Raw mental processing power.

  • Energy / Vitality: The capacity to be highly productive, especially over long durations.

  • Athleticism / Physicality: The capacity of the body to execute actions.

  • Memory: The ability to store and retrieve important conjectures and criticisms.

#3090​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 9 months ago​·​Criticized1

Core Moral Virtues (influenced by Ayn Rand and CR)

  • Rationality: The commitment to the ongoing deliberate use of conjecture and criticism.

  • Honesty: A refusal to evade one's thoughts, a commitment to searching for one's own errors, and a refusal to fake reality to others.

  • Integrity: The refusal to permit a breach between one's best ideas and one's actions.

  • Independence: The acceptance of one's own mind as the first and final executor of rationality within their own lives.

  • Justice: The application of rationality in judging ideas, people, and actions and acting on those evaluations proportionately.

  • Productiveness: The application of rationality to sustaining and improving one's life and circumstances.

  • Pride: An insatiable drive to find and fix errors in one's character, knowledge, and creations. “Moral Ambitiousness” as Ayn Rand puts it.

#3089​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 9 months ago​·​Criticized4

Please add a ‘first, previous, next, last’ navigation thing to the top of the activity feed page and similar pages. Currently I need to scroll to the bottom to go to a different page.

#3087​·​Benjamin Davies, 9 months ago​·​Criticized1Archived

Practicing remembering the homes of everything requires that I have something external to refer to correct mistakes when I make them, so this doesn’t defeat the potential need for a list or something of the sort.

#2989​·​Benjamin DaviesOP, 9 months ago​·​CriticismCriticized1