“Can you live your life 100% guided by reason?”

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Benjamin Davies revised 1 day ago·#2899
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Reflecting on one's past thought and action seems to be a key component of living a life 100% guided by reason. Thinking about this has inspired me to make an effort to search for methods and tools that help systematise, formalise and improve the quality of my self-reflection.

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Dennis HackethalOP revised 1 day ago·#2945
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Would you like to try formulating an explicit methodology for how you want to use Veritula?
I noticed that you’ve started a bunch of discussions but I don’t believe you’ve reached a resolution on any of them.

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Would you like to try formulating an explicit methodology for how you want to use Veritula?

This seems like a good idea.

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Benjamin Davies revised about 23 hours ago·#2952

Closing threads is a common problem in my life. I should look for ways to increase my propensity to resolve/finish things I start.

Methods I look for need to allow for the fact that not everything needs to be resolved, i.e. that having some open threads is inevitable, and that some of those threads are acceptable to leave open indefinitely.

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Benjamin Davies, about 23 hours ago·#2954

Idea: Keep a document tracking open threads, updating it every night. Every morning, feed it to Gemini Flash and have it coach me on what I could work towards resolving today.

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Benjamin Davies, about 23 hours ago·#2955

This would work well for some open threads, but not others (like anything I have left unaddressed on Veritula).

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Benjamin Davies, about 23 hours ago·#2956

That doesn’t mean it can’t be part of the solution.

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