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Jiang says an AI system optimized for reducing conflict is technically possible, but the actual funders of AI seek more money, power, and control rather than the abolition of government coercion.
Modern meritocracy succeeded for Harvard by making admission scarce, growing its endowment, producing billionaires, and placing Harvard/Ivy graduates throughout the American elite.
He says billionaires make no sense because money is meant to circulate as a mechanism of exchange and transaction rather than sit accumulated by a few people.
Jiang theorizes that billionaires such as Elon Musk, Stephen Schwarzman, and Larry Fink set the real agenda for U.S.-China relations and traveled with Trump to seek a new rapprochement with China.
He argues that billionaire interests pushed Trump in his second term toward negotiation and a less hostile posture toward China after years of mutual economic pain.
He predicts that a massive U.S.-China grand bargain will emerge within the next few months and says billionaire interests want access to Chinese consumers and capital through treasury-linked stable coins.
Jiang says the public billionaire-founder story is recent; earlier tycoons like Rockefeller and Carnegie functioned as agents of the City of London and used charity to disguise how much money they controlled.
He argues that the deeper problem is an empire refusing to accept mortality, and he uses American billionaires spending to live forever as the psychological image of that refusal to die.
"...question is, who's gonna pay for this, right? If you're a billionaire, the reason why you invest in AI is to have more money,..."
"...my theory. Okay. Hmm. So my theory is that it is billionaires, um, that really set the agenda for us, China relations. Okay. So..."
"...And so when Trump came to office, I think that these billionaires, people like Steven Schwarzman, Larry Fink, Tim Cook, uh, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael..."
"It was personal. Right. Uh, Chinese consulate in Houston, he kicked out Chinese reporters, he canceled the Peace Corps. He, uh, he, he called..."
"...and all this has been brokered behind the scenes by these billionaires who want to use China, who want to access the Chinese financial..."
"So Steve Wozniak was an employee of HP. And he was trained by HP, meaning his engineering skills came from that environment. And he..."
"I think there's about 3,000 like individual billionaires publicly documented by Forbes. Like did we, like a hundred years ago, was that a thing?..."
"...recent phenomenon. If you go back to the Gilded Age, these billionaires like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, what people don't recognize is..."
"So they need to disguise the fact that they didn't actually have that much money, right? And the way they disguise that is by..."
"...its mortality. The empire refuses to die. You've got all these billionaires in America. Who are spending all their money. Trying to live forever...."
"...The success of the Harvard alumni is just incredible. The most billionaires in America, Harvard graduates more billionaires than any other place. Okay? 127..."
"Okay? And you have MIT, Stanford, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Yale, Cornell, Princeton. Guess what, guys? Ivy League plus MIT. Okay? Okay. $30 million. Still, Harvard..."
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
The stream begins as a thank-you and career update, but its real pressure is larger: leave China, refuse the influencer trap, build schools, democratize creativity, and prepare communities for a world Jiang thinks is...
This first founding-members stream matters less as a news recap than as a method demonstration.
A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
Jiang treats the Iran shock as a long-cycle pressure system: initial strikes fail, the state shifts to durable economic coercion, and public attention is expected to absorb scarcity, distraction, and control mechanisms as this...
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