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| + | To be humble is to take specific actions in anticipation of your own errors. To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty. | ||
| + | |[http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues Twelve Virtues of Rationality]}} | ||
| − | Not to be confused with [[social modesty]], or [[motivated skepticism]] (aka [[disconfirmation bias]]) | + | Not to be confused with [[social modesty]], or [[motivated skepticism]] (aka [[disconfirmation bias]]). |
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To be humble is to take specific actions in anticipation of your own errors. To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
Not to be confused with social modesty, or motivated skepticism (aka disconfirmation bias).
