A lot of these overlap in terms of general principles, but I feel like choosing between these options (or at least figuring out where you sit between them) gives a good aggregate of your moral values.
- Enlightenment (Steven Pinker, Paul Graham, Patrick Collison) or Reaction (Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land, Andreesen)?
- Matisse (substance) or Picasso (form)?
- Tolstoy, Pushkin, Bunin (West) or Dostoyevsky, Yesenin (East)?
- Doomer or e/acc?
- Einstein, Oppenheimer (dove) or Teller, Von Neumann (hawk)?
- Nabokov, Amis, Larkin, Aristotle, Steve Jobs (aesthetics as a virtue) or Dostoyevsky, Mann, Camus, Mayakovsky (substance as a virtue)?
- Mandelstam the dreamer or Pasternak the visionary?
- Mishima (violent beauty) or Kawabata (silent beauty)?
- Akhmatova or Tsvetaeva?
- God or Nietzsche?
- Feynman, Dyson (intuition) or Von Neumann, Grothendieck (rigor)?
- Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Rachmaninov (substance) or Bach (form)?
- Skinner or Chomsky?
- Byzantine Christianity or North European Christianity?
- OpenAI (builders) or DeepMind (scientists)?
- Fence or anti-Fence?
- Zero-sum or non-zero sum?
- Red or White?
- Haussmann or Victoria?
- Bostrom, Strugatsky or Banks, Asimov?
- Lisp or Python?
- Silicon Valley or Ivory Tower?
- Eco or Borges?
- Stripe Press, Works In Progress, IFP or Palantir?
- Do what you love, and you will become good, or do what you're good at, and you will come to love it?
- Barbican or Fallingwater?
- Wallace or Hemingway?
- Catherine, Peter, Ataturk, Meiji or Tokugawa, Nicholas I?