3-1a3a Start with problems instead of opinions. The latter usually comes with confirmation bias.

• Problems > Opinions

  • Don’t get hung up on your views of how things “should” be because you will miss out on learning how they really are
    • 12-1e3 There is no should in nature

• 3-1 Start with problems

  • 3-1a2 The problem itself doesn’t care how it’s solved. Everything should be structured around solving problems.

• 9-4c Someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial

  • 9-1a1 People who converge upon the truth converge with each other

• 9-2b3c1 Everett on Joseph Campbell’s ‘Monomyth’ (innate content) - A tendency to think in generic terms of people and races is undoubtedly the profoundest flaw in mythological thinking. You could shape any myths into a monomyth if you so wished.

• 2-1a1a1 ‘Falsification (confirmation) bias’ - Always try to falsify your theory. Don’t pick up similar maps.

• To be universal, protocols must be unopinionateddevelop