5-1b1a8 ‘Opportunity cost' and 'comparative advantage' must be rooted in explanations. Never use them as ad hoc criteria.

Next:

• 5-1b1a8a When using probability, we need an explanation for why that probability applies, because knowledge is unpredictable
  • 5-1b1a8a1 Prediction ≠ Knowledge (because prediction requires knowledge)
  • 5-1b1a8b You can use analogy, but you have to explain why the analogy holds
• 5-1b1a9 The Fun Criterion is an explanation

Related:

• 1-2f1b3a1 The question is not whether anomalies happened in the past, but whether we have explanations for such anomalies.
• 5-2b2 You can’t flow to the most interesting if you react to everything that comes at you by default
• 9-4b2a1b Build the Idea Maze - Explain the history around an idea, and why yours is a good one. Virtually render the history of the evolution of that idea.
• 10-2g2c0e Synechism - the idea that everything is connected and nothing can be understood in isolation

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