> The majority of this is a bunch of unjustified assertions barely connected
This is true of 99% of blog posts and HN comments which contain the phrase "first principles" unironically.
Re:First Principles Thinking
by logiccontroller on Thursday February 10, 2022 @09:51AM
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It's turtles all the way down.
> Reasoning by first principles removes the biases, assumptions and conventions.
First principles are assumptions. smh. It would be hard to write a more philosophically naive and generally unconvincing article on this topic.