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.
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 is no [...] that does not want an answer.
9) [...] that distorts what you say to others also distorts your own thoughts.
10) The [...] is empiricism.
What do you gain from knowing whether empiricism is the second or the seventh in the list, or from memorizing pithy quotes word for word, without context? The important thing is to learn how to practice and apply the concepts, not to memorize them by rote.
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Take a look at the list. Look at the last sentence of each item, and the first sentence of the next. Do you see how they flow into each other? Learning the order of the items helps me remember which virtues are connected to other ones, and how.
There is context, just not in the Anki card. It's in the article (which you would need to read before using the deck), and it's in your brain (the memories of... (read more)