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Could you expand on what you mean by the difference between aspiring rationalists and aspiring aspiring "rationalists"? I don't think we have many people who say things like "I aspire to be an aspiring rationalist", either truly or falsely.
Perhaps this.
Something like that sounds plausible, but wouldn't many of those who were trying to try also falsely claim that they were actually trying? If so, what separates these "aspiring aspirings" from the "false aspirings"?
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They don't say that, but it's what they do. (As you noted this is different from falsely aspiring, which is not doing much of anything.) That's my assertion-without-evidence, anyway.
Let me try again: Group 1 understands the Void and chases it, Group 2 understands the Void and doesn't chase it, Group 3 doesn't understand the Void but chases something vaguely like it, Group 4 doesn't understand the Void and doesn't chase something vaguely like it. "Understand" is intentionally vague here and doesn't imply a full understanding, but I assert that there's a somewhat sharp and meaningful discontinuity.
What's the Void? Maybe I don't know about it.
It's the twelfth virtue.
Thanks. So it's a good thing. Something like empiricism or truth and being purposeful and honest in meeting your goals rather than getting distracted.
Why is it called 'the Void'?
When I read the Virtues a long time ago, I thought it meant the concept of 'quality' I read about in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. But now I don't suppose such a Platonic concept could possibly have been intended.