Subject: Re: Owners Manual still relevant?
Principles should be examined over time, according to grok🤔
Examine your principles periodically with curiosity rather than defensiveness. Ask:
• What evidence would falsify or refine this?
• Does it hold across contexts?
• Am I clinging due to identity, fear, or sunk cost?
Strong principles provide direction without blinding you. The capacity to change them—when reason demands—is itself a principle worth keeping. Dogmatism calcifies; principled flexibility advances understanding. This aligns with a truth-seeking approach to the universe: models improve by discarding what doesn’t fit reality.