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The freedom or liberty people need in order to love, create, learn, and grow.
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agency
The freedom or liberty people need in order to love, create, learn, and grow.
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He defines a distinction between the AGI logic in this argument and moral agency, calling the first ‘stupid’ or blind, implying that model outputs should be interpreted as optimization outputs not shared intentions.
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Jiang says Lucifer at the bottom of Inferno is mechanical: without ideas, speech, will, desire, agency, imagination, or organic life.
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Eschatology becomes both prophecy and plan because believers think the ending will happen and also feel obligated to make it happen.
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The Hollywood-Pentagon complex is not uniquely American; each institutional sector lives in its own fantasy of control, making objective agency over the system difficult.
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Jiang says the war will not end with a return to the old world; the world is moving into a new order whose form remains open to human choice.
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Secret society ritual displaces agency onto a higher power such as Satan or Saturn, allowing members to believe that evil acts serve order or paradise.
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The polytheistic worldview is introduced as a model of limited agency: humans are constantly shaped by gods, fate, fortune, anger, and pride.
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Polytheism is presented as a more accurate worldview because it recognizes external forces, gods, fate, fortune, anger, and pride as powers acting on human life.
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"Yeah, you already control the world, so what do you do? How about this, okay? I'm gonna kill everyone. Duh! The world is perfect..."
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"Yeah, kill everyone, okay? Why, because there's no one around to know it killed everyone. Doesn't make sense, guys. This is how a computer..."
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"...make hell more cool. Okay? Cools hell down. But this lacks agency, lacks ideas, lacks everything. Okay? So it's just a machine now. And..."
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"They have no imagination. They don't actually speak or think. They're just a machine. Whereas Virgil is the one who's navigating and negotiating hell...."
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"All right. So that's the idea. Okay. But this is all very chaotic. So what happens is that there's certain individuals, we can call..."
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"They try to turn the chaotic movement of history into a story that comes to an end in which you can participate in. All..."
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"that China is competitor to the system, we need to appreciate that China is really an extension of the system. So if this system..."
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"...the bigger picture. And that's why we don't have control and agency and free will over how the system will turn out. Okay. And..."
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"soon, and that once this war ends, then we'll go back to the things before this war. Okay? No, the world hasn't really changed...."
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"And it turned out, that when he was in pain, people are much more willing to let go of their inhibitions. Because what you're..."
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"...secret society, to force yourself to believe that you have no agency in this world, and you are controlled by Satan, okay, or another..."
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"...think is correct. And the first understanding, we humans don't have agency. We don't have really control. Why? Because there are powerful gods out..."
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The lecture starts by warning against overconfident certainty, then rewires from literary method to a hard model of AI: today’s systems are pattern-fitters optimized for compliance, so power becomes control over what counts as...
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The midterm turns a ceasefire into a world model: history moves like a river, eschatology makes prophecy into a plan, and the people who survive collapse are not the ones with the best machines...
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Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
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The first Secret History class begins with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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The episode starts with Iran and ends with Putin, but the real machinery is the formula between them: mass times energy times coordination.
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