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Simon's term for technical systems that can score, monitor, and direct populations while subordinating finance and military power to algorithmic oversight.
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control grids
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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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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"...they still need access to capital. But if you can recreate control grids, then you can control global capital. You can control military. And..."
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"...it's about safety, but it's all about control. This is the control grid that's coming right before our eyes. And we're just like walking..."
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"...helping you cheat on your homework. They are part of the control grid, right?"
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"...to introduce an AI surveillance system. You want to have a control grid. Well, a possible strategy is to fake an alien invasion and..."
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"...this control and people are, you know, just walking into this control grid."
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"...like a science fiction writer now. You, you are in this control grid, you see these Optimus robots, you think they're actually building a..."
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"...of that. So, food rationing. They'll allow for, will justify a control grid. But also, the national draft, if you think about it, will..."
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"...So they want a national draft. They want a AI, uh, control. Grid. Um, this is all part of their plan, but the people..."
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"...system is. Like, I've heard politicians allege that this is the grid that totally controls China, but then I've also just talked to lots..."
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"...a Chinese ID, then you're part of the Chinese AI surveillance grid, meaning that everything that you say is monitored, everything that you do..."
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"...you can actually create an AI surveillance state a control a control grid which by the way Ch ina already has"
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"...digital currency. I think this will lead to an AI surveillance control grid. I think this will lead to a collapse of the global..."
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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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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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A university lecture becomes a warning to China: tactics, utility, and clever people are not enough.
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Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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