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Upgrade your cargo cult for the win | Meta-rationality

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Richard Feynman derided “cargo cult science” that sticks to fixed systems. Innovation requires an upgrade to fluid, meta-systematic inquiry.

If you create a good enough airport— the cargo will come . What does it take for an individual to do innovative intellectual work, such as scientific discovery? Mere mastery of methods is not good enough. What does it take for a community or institution to address a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world effectively? Mission statements, structures, principles, and procedures are not good enough. Cargo cult science Richard Feynman—the foremost physicist of the mid-20th century—gave a famous commencement address on “ cargo cult science .” 1 During World War II, many Pacific islands th

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