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I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. the normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [with analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [with first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.
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I Think It's Important To Reason From

Elon Musk
I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. the normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [with analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [with first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.
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