Generalities.md

This page previously documented a bunch of philosophical principles I often use. I’ve since found a much more useful source of writeups on these subjects: RationalWiki, that not only documents what I had here in more detail and provides examples, but also indicates when “rules of thumb” can be wrong — something I did not go into much detail about, but still very important.

Pages I particularly recommend:

• Golden Rule about doing stuff unto others
• False dilemma / Assuming mutual exclusion
• Murphy’s Law, specifically pertaining to human error by individuals and companies
• Nirvana fallacy, also known as excessive perfectionism
• Emotional intelligence which may be a misnomer for what it defines

The point of this list is to replace a bunch of pages previously present here. They have a lot of stuff worth reading. If you’ve seen something philosophical here before and it’s no longer here, chances are one of these pages has it. And probably in much more detail I could possibly be bothered to write down.