A recent experience reminded me that basics are really important. On LW we talk a lot about advanced aspects of rationality.
If you would have to describe the basics, what would you say? What things are so obvious for you about rationality that they usually go without saying?
Amazing how the basic pillars of rationality are things other people so often don't agree with, even though they seem so dead obvious to me.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.