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Jiang defines reason as the act of dividing reality into categories, and says categorization is the precondition for reasoning anything out.
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Classification
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model
The state does not care about personal history, aspirations, or individuality; it classifies people into administratively useful categories it can exploit.
diagnosis
He says he slips through this surveillance logic because he is too distinctive to classify: he avoids Chinese social media, has few local ties, makes little public appearance, and is not a Chinese national.
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"Okay, all right. So this is hard, okay? But I need you guys to understand the difference between reason and imagination, okay? The central..."
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"Yeah. So my theory is this. Okay. And I don't know if I'm completely correct. Okay. But this is my theory of how this..."
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"And therefore they don't know what to do with me. And so what the AI system does is. It treats me as an edge..."
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"it's an excellent book by the way uh called seeing like a state and he's trying to explain to us how properties blockages work..."
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"Hi, my name is Banker, and I grew up in Beijing. And, I came to Moonshot, this school, in 2024, last year, and..."
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"Okay, wrong. Wrong, okay? That's not the correct answer. The right answer is, you're a teenage boy."
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"Okay? That's the correct answer. Alright? You believe that you are an individual with individual aspirations, ambitions, with a past, with a history. The..."
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"Yes, I guess the difference would be classification. You're turning you turn that paper into wealth, but you did not turn it into gold...."
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"...section, 224 authorizes unrestricted sharing of U.S. Military data, existing security classification and technology production requirements remain fully in force."
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"classifications so you're talking about the international expat track right schools that cater specifically to diplomats the sort of diplomats and you need a..."
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"...are caught up in it because there's no longer any established classification. If you're rich, if you're poor, you're stuck in this system. No..."
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"...thinking or, or certain kinds of critical tools that just involve classification abstraction because of the way the system is devised. It's, it's too..."
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