@SapientIntel @destraynor unquestionably yes, would make the same decision

RT @SteveStuWill: Predicting Personality from Book Preferences

Here’s the big question, the Zero Hunter mantra: What concepts are hiding in plain sight but can’t be seen by anyone? How do we, with our limited human cognition, start thinking “from an alternate dimension”?

You don't know what big goals are worth pursuing until you’ve uncovered the new building blocks and understood their properties. Instead of aspiring to be number one, be a zero.

When brain interfaces allow for the real-time pairing of one’s mind with AI, we may experience a Cambrian Explosion-like emergence of Zeros which, when harnessed, will be capable of producing thoughts that seem like they are “from another dimension.”

By definition, you can't “get to Zero” or introduce a novel element into thinking directly, so you have to try and stress first-principles efforts to the extremes until there are no marginal gains left.

How can humans, the system architects of intelligence, increase the speed of Zero discoveries? Before Europeans learned about zero, Descartes could not have come up with Cartesian geometry. All anyone had ever tried was to do better and better Euclidean geometry.

We need more such insights. In a world where we are continuously expanding our spheres of understanding, each Zeroth-principle insight can potentially unlock a set of more expansive spheres.

When people say, “From first principles…”, they mean is that they wish to assume as few things as possible from within a given frame. Sherlock Holmes is a classic first-principled thinker: When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true.