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Jan. 28th, 2018 10:28 amМир - нагромождение странных, малопонятных явлений. Но иногда в нем возникают правильные штуки, например, дома и дороги.
Figures from Bob Coecke's presentation.
Figures from Bob Coecke's presentation.
Jan. 28th, 2018
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Jan. 28th, 2018 11:14 amChinese Premier Li Keqiang will travel to Tokyo for his country’s first joint summit with Japan and South Korea since 2015, the clearest sign yet of improving ties between the three neighbors.
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A survey conducted late last year just 23 percent of Chinese respondents and 6.7 percent of Japanese saw ties between the two countries as good.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-28/china-sees-obstacles-to-repairing-ties-with-japan-as-envoys-meet
If China and Japan figured out a way improve relationships that would be huge for the region.
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Jan. 28th, 2018 11:23 amPeterson & Haidt point out several interesting dilemmas:
openness vs conscientiousness, esp. orderliness (related - disgust);
thick borders prevent information passing through vs the borders should be thicker to prevent contamination ( the Omnivore's dilemma - see Tyler Cowan)
a conservative is someone who wants the borders b/w categories to remain intact no matter what level of analysis; it's borders b/w the highest resolution of levels of cognition all the way to the actual physical borders of rooms, towns, states, countries.
frequency of infectious disease with authoritarian political beliefs - 0.6 correlation. beliefs from below.
openness vs conscientiousness, esp. orderliness (related - disgust);
thick borders prevent information passing through vs the borders should be thicker to prevent contamination ( the Omnivore's dilemma - see Tyler Cowan)
a conservative is someone who wants the borders b/w categories to remain intact no matter what level of analysis; it's borders b/w the highest resolution of levels of cognition all the way to the actual physical borders of rooms, towns, states, countries.
frequency of infectious disease with authoritarian political beliefs - 0.6 correlation. beliefs from below.