Summarising my beliefs
Is it worthwhile to try and summarise your beliefs as concisely as you can summarise a career? It is certainly difficult. Here is my latest attempt, for my About Me page:
Philosophically I am highly individualist, objective and rational. I apply rationality to my primary aim, the pursuit of happiness, although I have an unusually low discount rate. In others, I value honesty and candour. I despise collectivism, due to the contraints it puts on human thought and its tendency towards generating tribal conflict. I doubt the sincerity of those who act against their apparent incentives, which I treat as an indication of undisclosed incentives rather than virtue. For these reasons, I value the entry of market-based systems in most areas of life and society.
This does not capture everything, but it does catch what Rand might have called my ‘predicates’.
