https://ponderousbuffoon.blogspot.com/2014/12/relinquishment.html
In this episode, we examine the second virtue of rationality (according to Yudkowsky's "The Twelve Virtues of Rationality" article). We examine relinquishment.
The second virtue is relinquishment. P. C. Hodgell said: “That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.” Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fi