diagnosis
The 8.2 kilo year event is used as a climate-change trigger that pushed people from Anatolia and the Levant outward and helped spread agriculture.
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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...
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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...
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diagnosis
Jiang links the spread of agriculture after the 8.2 kilo year event to a peaceful, egalitarian mother-goddess world, then uses the 5.9 kilo year event as a second climate shock that forced migration and civilizational change.
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Jiang explains revolutions such as 1848 through converging pressures rather than single causes, including climate shocks, economic collapse, state-finance breakdown, new communication media, and new industrial classes.
prediction
Jiang argues that the deeper long-term threat to humanity is geophysical catastrophe rather than war.
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"time, if you go back in human history, 1848, the French Revolutions, there was no way at that time that people could have predicted..."
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"And you also had an uncontrolled new medium of communication in the printing press. There were newsletters flying everywhere, stirring up discontentment and coordinating..."
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"There were newsletters flying everywhere, stirring up discontentment and coordinating it. And you also had new industrial productions. You had a new economy. You..."
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"Well, I think in the short term, the geopolitical conflicts are an issue. I think that both Ukraine and the Middle East will be..."
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"that, I think, should concern people because changes in weather are much more destructive than wars, actually, from a historical perspective. There's talk of..."
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"...8.2 kilo year event. And we can see this as dramatic climate change that radically changed the geography and the climate of this world...."
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"So they went to Europe, they went to Egypt, they went to Mesopotamia. And when they did that, they spread agriculture. And remember, the..."
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"...do you account for drastically different inputs today? AI labor displacement, climate change, space race, et cetera, in your model. What's your confidence that..."
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"...the computer to solve all the world's problems for us, including climate change, war, and so once we create AGI and we give it..."
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"...same time. There were earthquakes. There were famines. There was a climate crisis. There were wars. There were civil wars. There were revolutions. And..."
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"...side, we go back to cavemen. Technology is the solution to climate change."
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"...So, I'm just saying, if you could find a narrative around climate change or around hate speech or the rise of fascism in America,..."
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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...
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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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Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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PBD brings Jiang on to challenge the viral Iran prediction.
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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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