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So I used Claude to extract the tools from economics domain and then realized the pattern applied everywhere. This became a project: 32 domains, 450+ reasoning tools. Bayesian statistics, system dynamics, operations research, evolutionary biology, classical rhetoric, military strategy and 26 others.
The extraction principle: separate the mental operations from the domain-specific content. Keep the moves that survive even when the specific models fail.
Each tool follows the same structure: what it is, why it matters, the key mental move, where it originated, where it surprisingly transfers, how it fails when misapplied, and where to go deeper.
These tools are now published on GitHub: https://github.com/dvdarkin/reasoning-tools packaged and ready for use as a knowledgebase with metadata, original extraction prompt and navigational structure.
There are more domains in the pipeline, which hold their own thinking primitives, not as easily transferrable perhaps, but maybe worth doing later.
Pls let me know if you find this useful, share your criticism, or submit a PR.
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