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Christ, these people are so fucking stupid. Can't wait to see how Nazi autocomplete solves the problem of induction.
Also, 'fun' fact. The second result for first principles on ddg is a blog post by a self-help guru sucking Musk off so hard you'd think they're being held at gun point.
I agree, but I really do think it's coupled with an (un)healthy dose of stupidity and delusion. These "free thinkers" really do think you can just pull knowledge out of the air from "first principals", whatever the fuck that even means in their context. They are completely ignorant that we arrived at our current scientific understanding by countless people stumbling over countless invalid theorems, not to mention piles of peer review and hard work. And chances are most of what we think we know is wrong anyway!