or as llms like to call it "search beats optimization when the game is dominated by rare, high-leverage opportunities rather than smooth incremental improvement"
Or more specifically, a tendency to [ab]use first principles thinking to go "in theory, if the following things are true, it should mean that we can achieve certain unprecedentedly absurd results."
im a lawyer, engineer, sales man, business development manager, ceo, cto, cfo, accountant, and everything else at the same time without any immediate monetary incentive