For many chinese people this is such an emotional issue because the chinese government has been very keen in promoting these emotions. They let go Mongolia and no one is still crying about that. The communist party could at least let off some steam on the issue if they wanted to...but they don't

Not trying to nitpick, but as far as I know, Taiwan was occupied by Japan starting from 1895, so China didn't inherit it in 1911.

I guess this shows how unfundamented is the current chinese territorial claim. Xinjiang was for most centuries an independent region or part of a different (usualy turkish) empire. Something similar happened with Tibet. It might make sense to include what's currently Mongolia into the chinese claim.

The history of the USA and of Xinjiang do not seem to be easily comparable. A date for "claim" means little both in the historic context and in the context of what constitutes a Nation - a commonality of intents in a society of dwellers.

I think all tools that allow you to externalize thinking can have a similar effect (not trying to diminish how novel AI / ML can be, just making a few connections)

For example: when you write equations on a piece of paper and then manipulate the symbols until a solution appears. This can actually feel surprising and can work like a feedback mechanism ("bouncing some ideas of")

Another example: when you play an instrument, particularly with weird effects...the sounds that come out of it can be surprising even for the person that plays them, again creating a feedback loop

>Netanyahu may be good, or not, but he is most definitely not a dictator

He's not a dictator for the israelis, but let's not forget that he rules over an apartheid state and for the palestinians (who don't get to vote, don't get to have their own country and yet get opressed by his rule) he is a dictator.

The fact that this is being downvoted is telling.

Why do you think it's fundamentally fragile? The soviet union lasted for about 70 years. China has had a unique party for around 70 years (and no signs of ot changing anytime soon). What other types of government are less fragile? I think democracy is more fragile for sure.

The US has lasted well over 200 years.

Well unless you skip over that whole Civil War thing where the states weren’t exactly “united”

The Union remained a democracy throughout that war.

Overcenralization in an environment of increasing disruptive dynamics is a path to eventual catastrophe when survival boils down to minimizing latency to action.

Is "topological dependency order of cells" different from what an average person would understand from saying "dependency order of cells"?

yeah it's the technical name for the intuitive sort order you need for a graph of dependencies.