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Отношение к фруктам, которые снимал с дерева сам, очень сильно отличается от отношения к купленному в магазине. Сейчас ем хурму и совершенно точно помню, как она чуть не упала мне на голову, но застряла в ветках. От этих веток у нее на шкуре образовался надрез - взял ее со стола и сразу узнал форму и глубину надреза. А магазинные фрукты все на одно лицо. Сначала их выращивают стандартными, потом я выбираю их на полке, чтобы они были одинаково красивые, потом не глядя вынимаю из холодильника и ем, не отвлекаясь и не задумываясь.

С теориями и решениями, видимо, то же самое происходит.

Zeitgeist

http://yakov-a-jerkov.livejournal.com/1250771.html?thread=38481619#t38481619

Удивительно, fka "вменяемые люди" начинают вести себя, как герои из анекдота "Рабинович напел."

Why Gutenberg failed

Surprisingly, there are hundreds of versions of each letter. This suggests that Gutenberg did not make his types by the usual mass-production method using punches and matrices. Rather, they seem to have been handmade, one (or, at most, a few) at a time. Similar variability is observed in other Gutenberg printing, and in the work of several of his contemporaries. The inventor of the font is still unknown.

Gutenberg began this process by transmuting manuscript into moveable type, with magnificent results. Evolving selection pressures posed new problems for his successors. They needed to reverse the trend of the Gothic, moving towards lean, discrete and pan-European character sets: complex fonts are both costly to manufacture and difficult to typeset.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v411/n6841/full/411997a0.html

Gutenberg tried to imitate existing high quality manuscripts; therefore, his edition of the Bible was extremely expensive. By contrast, his successful but unknown(!) followers designed new fonts and focused on new types of text.

Quote of the day

“Tetlock found two very different kinds of careful reasoning. Exploratory thought is an “evenhanded consideration of alternative points of view.” Confirmatory thought is “a one-sided attempt to rationalize a particular point of view.” Accountability increases exploratory thought only when three conditions apply: (1) decision makers learn before forming any opinion that they will be accountable to an audience, (2) the audience’s views are unknown, and (3) they believe the audience is well informed and interested in accuracy.”

Jonathan Haidt. “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion.”

It's really hard to be your own audience. My taichi teacher always tells me to practice with an inanimate object because I won't be able to fool it.

Banking on Trump

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