Mayling Birney at the London School of Economics says the system assigns the cold logic of a scorecard to behaviour often dismissed as the excesses of little dictators far from Beijing.

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Like many successful financiers, Dalio justifies capitalism and his place in it as a Darwinian process, in which the over-all logic of the system is sometimes hidden.

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When they wonder why they have been given a negative performance rating, I explain the logic of the system, and this includes asking the leader to introspect when analyzing the data.

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That's the logic of our health care system that we're going to have to change.

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But as long as voters outnumber doctors and ever larger swaths of our health care system come under government sway, there is an inexorable logic to the process.

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System Two is associated with enumeration, computation, objective analysis, and complex chains of logic.

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In fact, once these often repeated, seemingly immutable laws of deterrence theory are easily refuted, the logic for a robust missile defense system is stronger than ever.

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In the interest of defending the nation-state system, on which American sovereignty and foreign policy is based, the US should reassess the logic of its support for the establishment of Muslim-only states.

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But when the cold calculus of logic is swapped out for the gut-sense of intuition, this is the implicit system at work.

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