Easts meets West
An annual conference hosted by Thomas Lefant that brings together figures from technology and other industries. The recent conference was a central point of discussion, focusing heavily on AI, including news about Zuck, Nat Friedman, and the transformation of SAS companies.
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Summary
Easts meets West is identified as a conference organized by Thomas Lefant, which served as a pivotal forum for discussions on the dynamic and competitive landscape of the technology sector. The insights generated from this conference were specifically highlighted in a detailed analysis by hosts JCal, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Friedberg, and David Sacks, focusing on critical industry trends. These trends included the intense AI arms race among the "Mag 7" companies, exemplified by Meta's aggressive AI investments and talent acquisition, Google's vertically integrated approach with its Gemini models, and Tesla's advancements in humanoid robotics like Optimus. Furthermore, the conference's discussions encompassed the resurgence of the IPO market, the ongoing slowdown in the SaaS industry, geopolitical concerns regarding China's semiconductor threat to Nvidia, and the legislative progress of the Genius Act for stablecoin regulation.
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View on WikipediaEast Meets West (1995 film)
East Meets West is a 1995 Japanese Western film directed by Kihachi Okamoto.
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- History of the East–West Schism - Wikipedia
The East–West Schism that occurred in 1054 represents one of the most significant events in the history of Christianity. It includes various events and processes that led to the schism and also those events and processes that occurred as a result of the schism. Eastern and Western Christians had a history of differences and disagreements, some dating back to the period of Early Christianity. At the very root of what later became the Great Schism were several questions of pneumatology and [...] factors." Because so many factors contributed to the ever-widening separation between East and West, it is difficult to point to a specific date when it began or even identify a single primary cause of the schism. While most sources agree that the separation between East and West is clearly evident by the Photian schism in the 9th century, some point to tensions going back as far as the 4th century as the early signs of the separation between East and West.[page needed] [...] leading to the schism between East and West.
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- East-West Schism | Summary, History, & Effects - Britannica
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The 20th-century HinduguruSri Aurobindo was influenced by German Idealism and his integral yoga is regarded as a synthesis of Eastern and Western thought. The German phenomenologist "Phenomenology (philosophy)")Jean Gebser's writings on the history of consciousness referred to a new planetary consciousness that would bridge this gap. Followers of these two authors are often grouped together under the term Integral thought. [...] Confucianism (孔教, _Kǒngjiào_ — "Confucius' doctrine"), also known as "Ruism" (_Rújiào_ — "doctrine of the scholars"), is a Chinese philosophical system with ritual, moral, and religious applications.( The tradition developed around the teachings of Confucius (_Kǒng Fūzǐ_, 孔夫子, "Master Kong", 551–479 BCE) who saw himself as transmitting the values and theology of the ancestors before him.( Other influential classical Confucian philosophers include Mencius and Xun Kuang who famously disagreed on [...] criticized this idea.(
- Philosophy East and West: A Quarterly of Comparative ... - UH Press
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