Morendil comments on 11 core rationalist skills - Less Wrong
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Or more succinctly and broadly, learn to:
pay attention
correct bias
anticipate bias
estimate well
With a single specific enumeration of means to accomplish these competencies you risk ignoring other possible curricula. And you encourage the same blind spots for the entire community of aspiring rationalists so educated.
Proof of how dangerous this sort of list can be.
I entirely forget about:
After all, how can you advance even pure epistemic rationality without constructing your own experiments on the world?