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Jiang rejects definitional drift and insists the act itself is unchanged, so the real question is why natural law or social order would break down.
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Jiang defines love as something enacted and experienced rather than analytically explained, grounding it in unconditional self-giving like a mother's love for her child.
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Jiang defines Divine Comedy first and foremost as a portal into the mind of God and uses that as his working definition of what a great book is.
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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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A prophet does not primarily mean a person who predicts the future; for Jiang, a prophet is someone who speaks truth.
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Jiang says the technically correct term for AI is supervised machine learning.
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Jiang defines psychohistory as the attempt to model the past in a way that yields predictive power about the future.
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Jiang defines eschatology literally as the study of the end times, but functionally as a strategic plan for producing a desired ending.
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"No, no, no, the definition of homosexuality has not changed, right? It's still sex between two guys. How has that changed? So, yeah, go..."
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"But so, so why is there this breakdown of natural law? Why do people not follow natural law? Yeah, go ahead."
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"desire which can cause love uh love is something you don't you don't explain something love is something that you do love is something..."
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"how you see what what would it like comedy is on your first reading you can't figure it out but the more you read..."
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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. Okay. So the word prophet doesn't actually mean someone who predicts the future. Okay? The word prophet actually means someone who speaks to..."
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"geopolitical analyses well i mean um if you're an asthma fan i'm sure there are many who are i think asthma fans psychohistory is..."
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"Right. So eschatology. Eschatology comes from the Greek eschaton, which means the end. So eschatology, literally means the study of the end times, of..."
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"Okay? So, what is AI? All right. The AI, the technical term, is supervised intelligence. Supervised machine learning. Okay? That's the technical term. AI..."
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"Yeah I mean I love talking about empathy. Empathy is something that I discovered that was really emphasized in the Finnish school system. So..."
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"Right. I mean, empathy, I consider, you know, I mean, a technical term is called theory of mind, which basically is the ability to..."
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"Well, uh, for me, one part of empathy is kind of feeling into someone else's experience. And it sounded like you were, uh, feeling..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante restores imagination against empire, reveals a universe held together by divine light, and ends by making humanity necessary to God's own self-knowledge.
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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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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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Jiang defines Predictive History as a falsifiable method, then uses it to argue that Soleimani's killing made a U.S.-Iran war structurally inevitable, that eschatology is not prophecy but a strategic plan, that Odessa is...
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The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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