Jiang says the same external punishment can function differently in Hell and Purgatory because Purgatory turns the sinner toward cooperation and inner reform rather than competitive madness.
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Cooperation
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He frames the whole human cognitive system as socially oriented: it is designed for cooperation, competition, and interaction with others.
Jiang says a fraudulent world makes it impossible to make promises, contracts, or cooperative social arrangements.
Jiang says cross-generational cooperation is possible if people are willing to subordinate personal interest to the collective good.
He argues that in a real breakdown people would not automatically turn murderous; changed conditions would push neighbors to cooperate and improvise together.
He argues that even severe technological or monetary breakdown would not eliminate human survival because people improvise language, roles, and cooperation under pressure.
He frames the ongoing sanctions and posture as performative conflict while arguing that both powers are cooperating to stabilize AI-linked macroeconomic relations.
A cooperative replacement system among states is unsustainable because participants must negotiate who benefits, while empire can impose the answer by power.
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"this um is punishment for trying to for envying other people okay because before you saw yourself as separate from other people now you're..."
"there's a unity a coherence to this Dante cosmology I'm trying to figure out the logic of this I understand why you'd be punished..."
"So, yeah, so the memories are divided into emotional values. You remember what has emotional value unless you use brute memorization to remember useless..."
"Yeah, it's impossible to work together. Do you understand? Right? It's impossible to make promises. It's impossible to make contracts. It's impossible to cooperate...."
"Could a critical mass of boomers collaborating with other generations steer our global ship into the common waters with the spark of re -energize?..."
"Okay. So it's hard for you to predict what the world will look like because it hasn't happened yet. All right. It's important to..."
"but again we humans are extremely resilient just because there's more electricity just because we can't drive our cars just because we can't buy..."
"make songs entertain us at night okay it will happen very organically it will happen very fluidly dynamically and that's what makes us humans..."
"And then, uh... Yesterday, and the day before, He Lifeng, who is the, uh... who is the vice premier in China, and Scott Besant,..."
"Um... These sanctions are happening, but eventually, the U.S. and China will come to a grand bargain and they will become much more economic..."
"So you're talking about a country like Japan and Germany as you mentioned before, or America, like they fall into a group that, well,..."
"Because ultimately you have to resolve the issue of benefit. Okay. Okay. Like we have to negotiate who benefits. Okay. It doesn't make sense...."
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