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eternal_neophyte comments on The horrifying importance of domain knowledge - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: eternal_neophyte 30 July 2015 05:31:38PM 7 points [-]

LWers try to figure things out from relatively simple principles

If you only do this you are going to fail. This is why Aristotle got physics so badly wrong, right? Reasoning has to be a cyclical process of compressing complex realities into sets of simple principles and only then are you licensed to decompress those principles into making statements about reality.