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  Benjamin Davies addressed criticism #3198.

Very little sunlight except for a fairly brief period in summer. About 1,600 hours per year.

#3198·Benjamin DaviesOP, 7 days ago

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

  Benjamin Davies criticized idea #3197.

A place to live: Greenwich, London, United Kingdom

#3197·Benjamin DaviesOP, 7 days ago

Very little sunlight except for a fairly brief period in summer. About 1,600 hours per year.

  Benjamin Davies submitted idea #3197.

A place to live: Greenwich, London, United Kingdom

  Benjamin Davies criticized idea #3187.

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

#3187·Benjamin DaviesOP, 7 days ago

Social Trust / Safety: Urban awareness required. While historically very safe, recent trends in property crime and "ram raids" indicate a degrading security environment. It is no longer a "doors unlocked" culture.

  Benjamin Davies criticized idea #3187.

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

#3187·Benjamin DaviesOP, 7 days ago

Freedom of expression is generally upheld by common law, but recent legislative trends and the Harmful Digital Communications Act introduce mechanisms for state censorship regarding "hate speech."

  Benjamin Davies criticized idea #3187.

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

#3187·Benjamin DaviesOP, 7 days ago

No right to self-defense: Self-defense laws rely on "reasonable force" proportionality which often favours the aggressor in court. Pepper spray is classified as a restricted weapon and is illegal for civilians to carry for self-defense.

  Benjamin Davies criticized idea #3187.

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

#3187·Benjamin DaviesOP, 7 days ago

Taxation: No comprehensive capital gains tax and no inheritance tax suggest a favorable environment. However, the Foreign Investment Fund (FIF) rules tax unrealized gains on foreign assets, and trust tax rates are high (39%), creating friction for global capital allocators.

  Benjamin Davies criticized idea #3187.

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

#3187·Benjamin DaviesOP, 7 days ago

People are not fully free to do what they want with the land. The Resource Management Act (RMA) and local council unitary plans create extreme friction. Modifications to land, heritage overlays, and tree protection laws severely restrict the "Right to Build."

  Benjamin Davies criticized idea #3187.

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

#3187·Benjamin DaviesOP, 7 days ago

If children are not sent to school, there is a lot of bureaucratic work that the parents need to go through. It requires an exemption application and the Ministry of Education retains the right to review the educational philosophy and curriculum.

  Benjamin Davies criticized idea #3187.

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

#3187·Benjamin DaviesOP, 7 days ago

Auckland tap water is drinkable, but fluoride is added.

  Benjamin Davies criticized idea #3187.

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

#3187·Benjamin DaviesOP, 7 days ago

Reduced sun exposure: Auckland experiences a lot of cloud cover and rainfall, particularly during the winter months. Summer months are quite good though. Auckland gets about 2,000 - 2,120 hours of sunshine per year according to Google.

  Benjamin Davies criticized idea #3187.

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

#3187·Benjamin DaviesOP, 7 days ago

Auckland is at sea level, so the health benefits of being at altitude are not available here.

  Benjamin Davies submitted idea #3187.

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

  Benjamin Davies revised idea #3184.

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.

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 on that.

  Benjamin Davies submitted idea #3184.

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.

  Benjamin Davies submitted idea #3183.

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).

  Benjamin Davies submitted criticism #3182.

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.

  Benjamin Davies commented on idea #3179.

Also, if an individual keeps progressing, hopefully he can get into a point in life where people's opinion only 'hurt' his feelings and not his livelihood.

#3179·Zelalem Mekonnen, 8 days ago

I hadn't thought of this angle. Very interesting.

I should aim to create a life where it isn't a problem if people who have physical access to me also know what I say online.

I'm not sure what that looks like in practice. I suppose it is highly situational.

  Zelalem Mekonnen commented on criticism #2528.

It’s an understandable concern. I subscribe more to the insight from BoI chapter 10. Open societies inadvertently give their enemies more access than closed ones, but they also gain so much more knowledge and strength because of their openness that they can deal with their enemies better than if they were closed.

(I went back and forth on whether to label this as a criticism. I decided to do so but I want to be clear that it doesn’t mean I’m trying to tell you how to live your life.)

#2528·Dennis Hackethal, about 1 month ago

Also, if an individual keeps progressing, hopefully he can get into a point in life where people's opinion only 'hurt' his feelings and not his livelihood.

  Zelalem Mekonnen commented on idea #2453.

One feature I have planned is private discussions that only you and people you invite can see.

#2453·Dennis Hackethal, about 1 month ago

One reason I like the private chat is also because of that. I like the rigorous nature of Veritula and I want that kind of criticisms into my private life.

  Zelalem Mekonnen commented on idea #2832.

I’ve noticed that I have no problem keeping shared spaces tidy, which I suspect is driven by inexplicit ideas related to maintaining relationships, rather than understanding the underlying value in maintaining a tidy space.

#2832·Benjamin DaviesOP, 28 days ago

I applaud your honesty.

  Zelalem Mekonnen commented on criticism #3169.

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 9 days ago

No need to. That was a good refutation. I agree that people do forgive too much and forget to ask how that forgiveness is contributing to the problems they have. But, I think there is a kind of forgiveness, really justice, an honest version of it. Because you are fallible. Something like 'I messed up there, here is why I messed up, and here is what I am going to do so it won't happen again.' After that, you forgive yourself.

  Benjamin Davies submitted idea #3171.

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

  Benjamin Davies revised criticism #3167.

Tidied up the language


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.

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.

  Benjamin Davies commented on idea #3154.

It’s interesting how connected these virtues are. Rationality, honesty, integrity, justice, all relate to each other or even fall out of each other. For example, you can’t be honest and irrational, you can’t be a rational liar (with some exceptions), you can’t be dishonest and conscientious, etc.

Maybe the underlying, most fundamental principle is rationality. Or maybe it’s the law of identity, and all of these virtues are different expressions of it. Not sure yet.

#3154·Dennis Hackethal, 9 days ago

Some quotes relating to your idea:

Rationality is man’s basic virtue, the source of all his other virtues... [It] means the recognition and acceptance of reason as one’s only source of knowledge, one’s only judge of values and one’s only guide to action.
— Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, ch. 1

and

Since these virtues are expressions of rationality, they are logically interconnected... None can be validated in isolation... nor can a man practice any one of them consistently while defaulting on the others.
— Leonard Peikoff, Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, ch. 8