The purpose of my personal wiki is Cruxiness

The purpose of my personal wiki is Cruxiness

With great power comes great responsibility. When I collect all of the information I think I know along with their justifications in one place, such as this knowledge base, and clearly interconnect them, I imagine that someone who wants to question a part of it could feel overwhelmed. Perhaps they get the idea that I cannot be argued with, since I seem to have so much indirectly backing up any one claim and "everything fits together" for me.

If so, all I can say is: that is the opposite of its function. The knowledge base helps explore my own beliefs and reveal my "cruxes" – Raemon reflects my goal in Keep Your Beliefs Cruxy. In short, I don't mean to collect arguments backing up what I believe (that's dangerous for who wishes to stay sane), but for the opposite: helping me propagate belief changes. When a specific belief is questioned, I may reverse what I believe on that point, and then the knowledge base helps me discover what other beliefs I will also have to reverse! So it's a tool for increased fluidity of belief systems. Instead of carved into stone, my mind should be more like a whiteboard: quick and frictionless to change.

Sometimes I'll realize that something I wrote is way too opinionated, or displayed the Dunning-Kruger effect (i.e. I act like everyone else's stupid, but I'm the one who's stupid). It's embarrassing, but also so healthy. I recommend everyone to publicize their belief systems in this way.

For details of how, see Unpacking beliefs.

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