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Even if I agree with you on the goals (I can claim he used meta-rationality here, in the sense that someone should try to make humans interplanetary species, even if he thought his chance of success was less than 50%) a lot the thinking that made him arrive at SpaceX seemed to be "one can actually do this way cheaper than the currently accepted standards, based on cost of materials etc"
I don't think Jonah or I argues that you should never make calculations. Musks did make many decisions on that path and from the outside it's hard to get an overview of what drives which decision.