The problem with Elon Musk’s ‘first principles thinking’

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Hi, it’s Charley. Welcome back to Untangled, a weekly-ish newsletter about technology, people, and power. In October, I published five issues:

• In “Building Alternative Futures,” I argued that it’s impossible to build radically different futures out of data that is tethered to the past. Instead, so-called ‘predictive’ algorithms chase the past under the g…