Eliezer quotes Musashi:
“Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy’s cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.”
So I took “All techniques are one technique” to mean that the techniques share the same goal, and that it can be useful to think of them as a unified whole to facilitate moving between one and the other (see also his part about rationality being a “dance”.)
How do you interpret it? Is he just trying to sound cool, and not actually communicating anything of value?
(That's a genuine question, and I'm open to the possibility of it being true. I just need a little convincing.)
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 first virtue is curiosity.
The second virtue is relinquishment.
The third virtue is lightness.
The fourth virtue is evenness.
The fifth virtue is argument.
The sixth virtue is empiricism.
The seventh virtue is simplicity.
The eighth virtue is humility.
The ninth virtue is perfectionism.
The tenth virtue is precision.
The eleventh virtue is scholarship.
Before these eleven virtues is a virtue which is nameless.