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Twelve Virtues of Rationality - LessWrong

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The first virtue is curiosity. A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires bot…

x Twelve Virtues of Rationality — LessWrong Quantified Humanism Virtues Rationality Frontpage 430 Twelve Virtues of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky 1st Jan 2006 9 min read 21 430 The first virtue is curiosity. A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance. If in your heart you believe you already know, or if in your heart you do not wish to know, then your questioning will be purposeless and your skills without direction. Curiosity seeks to annihilat

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