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The Good Explanation Test
Judge any claim on four tests: explanatory, testable, hard to vary, risky predictions.
The Hard-to-Vary Test for Good Explanations
Judge an explanation by how little you can change it without wrecking it.
The Four Kinds of Luck
Stop waiting for luck and build the character that makes luck come find you.
Calibrate Then Improve Your Judgment
Prove whether your investing judgment is real before you try to sharpen it.
Conjecture and Refutation
Treat every belief as a guess and hunt for the test that could kill it.
Gell-Mann Amnesia
Treat the error you caught in your own field as a sample, not an exception
The Self-Refutation Test
Take an idea literally and follow it through; bad ones destroy themselves.
Problem-First Epistemology
Start every inquiry from a clash of ideas, not from a search for certainty
Anti-Rational Meme Detection
Spot the ideas that survive by disabling your capacity to criticise them
The Prescription Boundary
Use how-tos for the mechanical, then drop every method at the edge of the art
Blame Yourself, Preserve Your Agency
Take responsibility for every bad outcome so you keep the power to fix it
The Fun Criterion for Choosing Problems
Pick the problem you would enjoy failing at, not the one you must win.
The Why-Tuesday Test
Reject a specific prediction when nobody can explain why that one and not another.
Desire as a Contract for Unhappiness
Price every desire as the unhappiness you agree to carry until it is satisfied
The Fear-Not-Greed Lens
Diagnose bad collective behaviour as fear, because greed cannot scale