First principle

All successful schooling depends upon the acceptance of necessary dogmas.

Dogmas are first principles.

Without first principles, nothing can be achieved intellectually or morally, even by the most brilliant teachers.

so

when joan always says you know to me it's it it's dogma no slavery no you know pedophile these are dogmas yeah they're dogmas you're right i'm not gonna i'm not gonna negotiate i'm not gonna discuss them you know i don't want to discuss this this is wrong period that's what he means yeah yeah

Okay.

all right number 50 um first principles thinking a lot of people will hear this about like elon musk because he's just like a genius when it comes to first principles thinking right and example of that is like the rock you know space and getting to space and the reason why i was always kind of government funding because it was so expensive and it never was privatized.

And so he knew he had to figure out how to do it.

And you got to just keep on drilling down to the, the, the truths of the matter.

And you see what he's done with it.

It's pretty impressive.

Like that was a first, that was a first principles thinking.

It was like, I got to be able to reuse these rockets.

We've

accidentally recreated David Graeber from First Principles of like, we don't have money, we can just trade things and then that's the value they're worth.

Mm-hmm.

I think another underrated aspect of like how Star Wars can kind of reflect reality in class is the fact that like technology does not always work properly in Star Wars.

And

it's like, Casual new magic players discovering Frank Carson from First Principles is awesome to me.

Yeah, my given nickname for Frank these days is I like to call him the People's Professor.

I think that's a fun nickname.

This is another installment of I'm Just Sayin'.

This week, I want to lay a few of the ground rules, some of the assumptions, and what I'm going to call first principles of this investigation into what's changed between who we were 10,000 years ago and who we are today, and in the hopes of potentially understanding that better so that we can better inform ourselves about who we want to be in the future.

So this week I'm calling this episode Assumptions and First Principles.

And certainly assumptions is pretty easy.

You know, I'm making a few assumptions about what the foundational elements are that we'll be building off of.

It's like a foundational element.

In math, I think these were like the postulates, maybe theorems.

And the whole purpose isn't to literally establish the first principles of like evolutionary biology.

Atrocities that you had no hand in.

There is an infinity in these first principles, as there is an infinity in you, Sagittarius, and, if I may be so bold, in all of us, although it is not as... literally accessible to most of us as it may be to you.

What is legal is good.

Well, what does legal mean to you? You cannot know what is good if you do not know what is legal and why it is good.

We'll miss your buzzwords.

Delta Alpha, Raw Man, Steel Man, First Principles.

It's going to be a high, high bar for some of us to come in and join Corby and and bring what you have to the podge.

I've crunched the numbers.

We'll miss your buzzwords.

Delta Alpha, Steel Man, Steel Man, First Principles.

It's going to be

a high, high bar for some

Legally Blonde the Musical.

Legally Blonde from First Principles.

But no, two answers that I was going to say I like a Dracula.

I like specifically when it's Dracula.