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Comment by itishappy

7 hours ago

First principle: How can we accomplish X?

Higher order: What if we accomplished X?

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procinct  3 hours ago

Thinking from first principles would likely start with “Do we need X?”

  • itishappy  34 minutes ago

    Fair point, I'm skipping over the need itself. The titular first principle.

    First principles: "We need X, how can we accomplish that?"

    Higher order: "We need X, what would accomplishing that do for us?"

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