Glossary
Jiang uses the term for modern people's desire to believe they are smarter than earlier humans, which leads to bad explanations of ancient achievement.
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Confirmation bias
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...so why are we taught that we're smarter the answer is confirmation bias because everyone likes to believe that we're smarter than people who..."
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Glossary
Previewed in context as the human and religious tendency to seek evidence that confirms existing claims. The tendency to look only for evidence that supports one's existing claims, desires, or need for validation.
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Alien and Atlantis explanations for the pyramids are, for Jiang, examples of modern confirmation bias that assumes ancient people were too stupid to build complex structures.
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Confirmation bias keeps the system intact because people prefer to believe the government tells the truth and therefore live in a fantasy world.
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For most of history, Jiang says science served religion by validating it, which creates confirmation bias: people seek evidence that supports what they already want to believe.
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"...so why are we taught that we're smarter the answer is confirmation bias because everyone likes to believe that we're smarter than people who..."
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"...egyptians to build the pyramids and this is an example of confirmation bias we think that we're smart and everyone before it was stupid..."
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"...Okay? And the last thing that helps the system is compromise. Confirmation bias. And the idea of confirmation bias is you just want to..."
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"...about validating this religion. But this creates a problem we call confirmation bias. Confirmation bias. Meaning that we will only look at evidence that..."
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"...know, know, there's that old thing. It's like a kind of confirmation bias. They say sometimes where people will say, well, I see the..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's conspiracy lecture: Apollo, JFK, 9/11, Freemasonry, bureaucracy, and the number 33 become one model of spectacle, disclosure, guilt, and perception control.
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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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Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
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