Derive First Principles

Strip convention to irreducible truths and rebuild

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Find or reverse engineer first principles from context.

Follow these steps:

1. Identify the convention

Identify a current belief and its conventional approach from the context of your task and the user's request.

2. Question every component

Is each a fundamental truth, or an assumption from convention, analogy, or authority?

3. Keep what survives

Keep only what survives the questioning.

4. Reason up

Given only the surviving fundamentals, what follows?

5. Compare with convention

Identify which constraints are real and which are inherited.

6. Open new possibilities

Ask what new possibilities open when inherited constraints are removed.

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