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#264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
Reasoning From First Principles Is a Great Shortcut
The term for this that actually Elon likes to use is reasoning from first principles. First principles are your axioms and physicists, they don't say, well, what's, you know,. What do people think? They say, what are the axioms? Let's use those to build a conclusion. Now let's test it, right? And he comes up with all kinds of new things constantly by doing that. If Einstein was, was assuming conventional wisdom was right, he never already tried to create something that really disproved Newton's laws. The other way to reason is reasoning by analogy, which is a great shortcut.
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