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The essay doesn't agree.

> You shouldn’t confuse the Zen Anti-Interpretation with “Shut Up And Calculate.” The latter phrase, mistakenly attributed to Feynman but really due to David Mermin, is something one might say at the beginning of the path, when one is as a baby.



Finish the paragraph:

> but after years of study and effort you’ve returned to the situation of the baby, who just sees the thing for what it is.


I think his view is less "shut up and calculate" and more "to calculate is to know."




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