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> Being 100% rigorous and rational, reasoning from first principles

It really annoys me when people say that those religious cultists do that.

They derive their bullshit from faulty, poorly thought out premises.

If you fuck up the very firsts calculations of the algorithm, it doesn't matter how rigorous all the subsequent steps are. There results are going to be all wrong.



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