Red Pill or Blue Pill

Haidt's talk gives a roadmap for 2020

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TIL: Henry Ford designed military ships

This particular warship, designed by Henry Ford for WWI, was the only Eagle boat lost during combat.



https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49050972

A yet another "not a racist" apology

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/no-one-really-wants-to-send-her-back/

The comments section is quite illuminating too.

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3. All relations of thought in judgements are those (a) of the predicate to the subject; (b) of the principle to its consequence; (c) of the divided cognition and all the members of the division to each other.”

Immanuel Kant. The Critique of Pure Reason.

From a purely formal perspective, discussions and misunderstandings about whether Trump is a racist stem from a deficiency in natural human language that expresses statements of category 3b as 3c. Kant describes such errors as illusions of reason, analogous to illusions of perception.

TIL: Group psychology of sanctity

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also see Moral Foundations Theory. https://books.google.com/books?id=1jk0DwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT439&ots=qLRFByvb_m&dq=info%3AQPmNJPg8IaAJ%3Ascholar.google.com&lr&pg=PT439#v=onepage&q&f=false