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Fallibilism is the view that there is no criterion to say with certainty what’s true and what’s false. As a result, we inevitably make mistakes; all of our knowledge is tentative.

Nothing is obvious but depends on what one understands about reality. No knowledge is beyond revision, even if it claims to be.

Knowledge grows by correcting errors in our knowledge. We correct errors by guessing solutions to problems and then criticizing and testing those proposed solutions.

We should always be careful not to destroy or even slow down the means of error correction.

This view is mainly influenced by Popper, and errors are my own.

Fallibilism is the view that there is no criterion to say with certainty what’s true and what’s false. As a result, we inevitably make mistakes; all of our knowledge is tentative.

Nothing is obvious but depends on what one understands about reality. No knowledge is beyond revision, even if it claims to be.

Knowledge grows by correcting errors in our knowledge. We correct errors by guessing solutions to problems and then criticizing and testing those proposed solutions.

We should always be careful not to destroy or even slow down the means of error correction.

This view is mainly influenced by Popper, and errors are my own.

Fallibilism is the view that there is no criterion to say with certainty what’s true and what’s false. As a result, we inevitably make mistakes and all of our knowledge is tentative in nature. Nothing is obvious but depends on what one understands about reality. It also means that no knowledge is beyond revision, even if it claims to be. Knowledge grows by addressing problems in our knowledge. We solve problems by guessing solutions and testing them. This also means we should always be careful not to destroy or even slow down the things and ideas that correct errors and thereby create knowledge. Some of those ideas are freedom, privacy, and free markets. We are also never the passive recipients of our knowledge; we are the creators.

This view is mainly influenced by Popper, and errors are my own.

Fallibilism is the view that there is no criterion to say with certainty what’s true and what’s false. As a result, we inevitably make mistakes and all of our knowledge is tentative in nature. Nothing is obvious but depends on what one understands about reality. It also means that no knowledge is beyond revision, even if it claims to be. Knowledge grows by addressing problems in our knowledge. We solve problems by guessing solutions and testing them. This also means we should always be careful not to destroy or even slow down the things and ideas that correct errors and thereby create knowledge.

This view is mainly influenced by Popper, and errors are my own.

Fallibilism is the view that there is no criterion to say with certainty what’s true and what’s false. As a result, we inevitably make mistakes and all of our knowledge is tentative in nature. Nothing is obvious but depends on what one understands about reality. It also means that no knowledge is beyond revision, even if it claims to be. This means that we can't be certain about anything, because we don't have a criterion of truth. Knowledge grows by addressing problems in our knowledge. We solve problems by guessing solutions and testing them. This also means we should always be careful not to destroy or even slow down the things and ideas that correct errors and thereby create knowledge. Some of those ideas are freedom, privacy, and free markets. We are also never the passive recipients of our knowledge; we are the creators.

This view is mainly influenced by Popper, and errors are my own.

Fallibilism is the view that there is no criterion to say with certainty what’s true and what’s false. As a result, we inevitably make mistakes and all of our knowledge is tentative in nature. Nothing is obvious but depends on what one understands about reality. It also means that no knowledge is beyond revision, even if it claims to be. Knowledge grows by addressing problems in our knowledge. We solve problems by guessing solutions and testing them. This also means we should always be careful not to destroy or even slow down the things and ideas that correct errors and thereby create knowledge. Some of those ideas are freedom, privacy, and free markets. We are also never the passive recipients of our knowledge; we are the creators.

This view is mainly influenced by Popper, and errors are my own.

What do you think of: it’s the law of the excluded middle that constrains the universe to exist. Nothing can’t exist, so the only alternative that’s left is for something to exist.

What do you think of: it’s the law of the excluded middle that constrains the universe to exist. Nothing can’t exist, so the only alternative that’s left is for something to exist.

What do you think of: it’s the fact that the law of the excluded middle that constrains the universe to exist. Nothing can’t exist, so the only alternative that’s left is for something to exist.

What do you think of: it’s the law of the excluded middle that constrains the universe to exist. Nothing can’t exist, so the only alternative that’s left is for something to exist.

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).

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.

• 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).

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.

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.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, separately notify participants of the change.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, notify participants of the change.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, separately notify participants of the change.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, separately notify participants of the change.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, notify participants of the activity.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, separately notify participants of the change.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, notify participants.

The activity feed already shows updates to discussions. Could just include changes to the privacy setting there. And, whenever the privacy setting does change, notify participants of the activity.