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Augustus's succession solution is adoption of the most competent relative so that the best man in Rome always inherits imperial power.
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Adoption
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The host says implanted AI will likely be marketed as a cognitive enhancement, with the promise of immediate access to knowledge making widespread adoption attractive to many people.
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Jiang says implanted tracking chips would appeal to parents because they promise to eliminate the fear of losing a child or being unable to locate a kidnapped child.
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He argues a crisis is needed to make digital currency popular enough for mass adoption, treating COVID as an earlier opening and leaving open the possibility that another manufactured emergency will be used for rollout.
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"Like, they'll say it's going to make you smarter. You know, if you could have like Wikipedia in your brain at all times and..."
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"Look, look, I'm a parent, I can see the appeal of these microchips because, you know, one thing that parents are afraid of is..."
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"losing my wallet or whatever. I just pay everything online. You can do all sorts of like really complex transactions very easily nowadays. So..."
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"They have to like. They do all these transactions online. So COVID was an opportunity and it's possible they manufacture another crisis in order..."
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"a great emperor but the second emperor had to be had to be great as well and so his solution was this his solution..."
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"then Germanicus would inherit the throne, and he'd be a good emperor, and as a good emperor, you would then be able to find..."
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"...at all -time highs right now so it's not just the adoption of the dollar it's actually the adoption of like the U.S you..."
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"...son and so Octavius name is actually Gaius Octavius and upon adoption of Upon his adoption. He is now named Gaius Julius Caesar Octavius..."
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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Canadian Prepper keeps pulling Jiang from immediate war forecasting into theology, bureaucracy, civil unrest, Canadian overmanagement, disaster culture, and Taiwan.
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Rome does not hand Octavian power because he is the best general, the most charismatic speaker, or the obvious heir.
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