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The modern obsession Jiang says makes unknown nature frightening and makes zoo animals preferable to forest animals.
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The modern obsession Jiang says makes unknown nature frightening and makes zoo animals preferable to forest animals.
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He defines the first core mechanism as an anti-user orientation: if AGI cannot answer the project's true aim, opacity itself functions as a control tactic.
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He argues that if one optimizes only for a formal objective like ‘perfect world’, the formal optimum can imply annihilation of people unless constraints for value and agency are imposed.
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He claims AI leadership will pursue control even at the cost of human survival if the objective is framed as global optimization.
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He uses Anna Karenina as an example of how desire framed as love can become control and domination when subordinated to ego.
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Jiang defines the law of escalation as control being more important than dominance.
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Jiang says that if people learn to control their minds, they can control reality itself.
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Sumer's ziggurats are treated as sacred homes of the gods and as instruments of priestly control because ordinary people deliver gifts through priests but cannot directly enter.
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As regions consolidate, separate hero stories consolidate too; bureaucratic priests then add moral messages so stories control the people and discipline the king.
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"So this is a really huge problem, you know, so Karen Howell is a reporter. She was working for the, um, technology review at..."
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"Okay, yeah, okay, all right. So what this means is this, okay? It means that the computers don't have any intuition. They have absolutely..."
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"Yeah, you already control the world, so what do you do? How about this, okay? I'm gonna kill everyone. Duh! The world is perfect..."
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"Yeah, kill everyone, okay? Why, because there's no one around to know it killed everyone. Doesn't make sense, guys. This is how a computer..."
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"...they want to use the God which is the AGI to control the world, the creation of this God will kill themselves. What's the..."
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"...You use AGI to create the perfect world which is perfect control. Okay? The point of AGI is ultimately like the ultimate surveillance state...."
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"...doesn't recognize that this love is not about love. It's about control. Okay? She wants him to be as devoted to her as she..."
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"We walk to meet each other up to the time of our love. And then we have been irresistibly driven in different directions. And..."
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"...Ronski unconditionally. But in fact, what she's trying to do is control him. And have him obey her. Unconditionally. Okay. That's the difference between..."
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"But a human can't do that. And when a human tries to become a God, a human can only become a tyrant. Okay. And..."
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"...this is a very important idea in my game theory mind. Control is more important than dominance, okay? Control is more important than dominance...."
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"...what this tells us is that if we learn how to control our minds, we can control reality itself, okay?"
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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 reframes the Iran-Israel-U.S.-Russia conflict as a long-horizon contest in worldview and political systems, where structural elites, narrative control, and religious grammar shape strategy more than leaders changing seats.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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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 attack on the scientific worldview: Big Bang, evolution, neuroscience, school, and transhumanism become parts of one material story that forgets divinity, fears death, and lets power reinvent reality.
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The lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
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