The Meditation on Curiosity — LessWrong
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x The Meditation on Curiosity — LessWrong Letting Go Curiosity Litany of Tarski Frontpage 229 The Meditation on Curiosity by Eliezer Yudkowsky 6th Oct 2007 5 min read 102 229 The first virtue is curiosity. —“ The Twelve Virtues of Rationality ” As rationalists, we are obligated to criticize ourselves and question our beliefs . . . are we not? Consider what happens to you, on a psychological level, if you begin by saying: “It is my duty to criticize my own beliefs.” Roger Zelazny once distinguished between “wanting to be an author” versus “wanting to write.” Mark Twain said: “A classic is somet
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