In an effort to internalise the Twelve Virtues of Rationality, I created an Anki deck. It's already been done, so the reason I'm posting is to share a condensed version of the article (created as a side effect of my making the deck).
Hopefully it will make it easier to quickly refresh the concepts if you've already read the article.
If you're not using spaced repetition, you should. Don't believe me? Try reading Gwern's thorough review of the topic.
Then download the “Twelve Virtues of Rationality” deck.
The out-of-context statements are intended as a resource for people who have already read through and understood the post. If they have done that, then the statements won't be mysterious or meaningless, but instead act as triggers for entire concepts. See this excellent guide to breaking down knowledge into memorisable chunks.
Two questions, Phillip:
1) Do you think Eliezer's article has value? 2) How would you ensure that you'd learnt its key messages?
If you think there's no point, or if you have a better way, I'd love to hear about it.
Okay, to know what I'm talking about here, I downloaded the deck and am looking at sample questions now. Here are the first 10 questions I got:
1) The sixth virtue is ___.
2) ___ wrote in the Book of Five Rings, "quoted stuff".
3) The sixth virtue (again)
4) The ___ is humility.
5) ___ thus more can be said about a single apple...
6) If ___, you will not advance to the next level and you will not gain the skill to notice new errors.
7) [as I realize I can copy and paste from Anki] The [...] is relinquishment.
8) [...] seeks to annihilate itself; there i... (read more)