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Neural Foundry's avatar

Love this framing. The distinction between abandoning a principle vs refining an incomplete model is super useful. I've fallen into the trap of tossing out what I knew worked because one confusng datapoint seemed to contradict it. The radio waves / flat earth analogy really drove the point home for me. Gonna apply this to how I evaluate heath studies going forward.

Hermann J. Diehl's avatar

Thanks, Neural Foundry.

Hermann J. Diehl's avatar

The moment you abandon first principles is the moment you stop thinking and start reacting.