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Jiang says the psychohistory AI must be part of a democratic system where everyone is involved, otherwise it can only be abused.
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Abuse
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang relays his wife's theory that people born into total privilege become bored and seek excitement through domination, manipulation, and the fear responses of children.
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Jiang says power abuse is universal: any civilization will produce similar corruption if people are given too much power and too little meaningful challenge.
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"so, like, I was talking to my wife about why Jeffrey Epstein was doing what he was doing. Like, why are they doing this?..."
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"...them. You can control them. You can manipulate them. You can abuse them. And the other thing is that you can scare children much..."
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"And the reason why is that's the only thing that can bring him excitement. Another example is a squid game. I'm not sure if..."
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"...if you put people in position of power, they're going to abuse it. All right. And what they want ultimately is novelty, excitement, feeling...."
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"And it will give you different scenarios. And we can all agree on which scenario we want. And therefore, we can agree on what..."
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"...star or something better has given me that gift, I not abuse it. As many as the fireflies, the peasant, while resting on a..."
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"...not merely through acts which Victorian moralists had defined as self -abuse, but rather through self -acceptance, his understanding that naturalness of his desires,..."
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"...but every time the american started to um overreach started to abuse this exemplar privilege in vietnam right so basically america was financing this..."
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"...started to rebel today, but over time, the Athenians started to abuse their allies and turn them into vassals. And then these vassal states..."
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"...China would be a good trading partner because of China's blatant abuse of human rights. People forget all this. Okay? The Democrats were the..."
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"...And Odysseus goes as a beggar. And they just... And they abuse him as well. But Penelope hears that there's a stranger in the..."
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"...They're not cosmopolitan. And so I suffered a lot of racial abuse when I was younger. And that's what sort of compelled me to..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...
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Jiang starts from the harshest frame available: Iran is not one more crisis but the hinge on which the next half-century turns.
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