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Elon Musk: The Techno Shaman

Decoding the Gurus

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Engineering First Principles Algorithm

It does sound a bit sense-makery and it does sound a little bit like someone like Brett Weinstein talking about how what do you need to know to understand what's going on with vaccines or something is to start with evolutionary first principles then the answer is obvious. It also harkens to this obsession with the interpersonal and the individual loan genius were really what makes the companies tech are departments of engineers and scientists and working together  it isn't all loan geniuses having eureka moments it's the science and engineering is a lot more than that.

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it first principles algorithm he's the first principles thinker who says that else do we know that says that most of the girls were wrapped Weinstein in particular it's just a common referee and the allers are following
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but they are working from the eternal
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insight the blueprints that they developed themselves
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like what he's talking about there is like a bit of engineering homespun wisdom before you attempt to solve the problem ask yourself whether or not it's a problem that really needs to be solved it's a kind of thing everyone go yeah that's brilliant and look maybe that is a unique perspective maybe you'll almost does have a special talent for identifying redundant parts or miss specifications in engineering requirements but it does sound a bit sense-makery and it does sound a little bit like someone like Brett Weinstein talking about how what do you need to know to understand what's going on with vaccines or something is to start with evolutionary first principles then the answer is obvious it's a kind of a guru thing where it's like you can do it too like this is a secret that you can apply to your own life even
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that kind of insight
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where you're giving a broad idea it is a very Ted talkie kind of
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thing but it presents you again as like the old tour right
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and the way that he also suggested that that like
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the main thing is to deal with people not departments and you can understand that because like everybody understands how the bureaucracy can be annoying people are just saying we can't do it like this because the form doesn't say that we can do it right and you can just pick the person so he's right in that respect but it also harkens to this obsession with the interpersonal and the individual loan
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genius were really what makes the companies tech are departments
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of engineers and scientists and
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working together it isn't all loan geniuses having
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eureka moments it's the
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science and engineering is a
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lot

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