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Jiang says Yale disappointed him because it was oriented toward success, law school, Wall Street, and money rather than open intellectual curiosity.
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Elite institutions
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "And that was not Yale. Yale was very much a school focused, focused on success, on achievement, you know, on on getting to law..."
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Jiang says Yale itself taught him that elite institutions are not heavens of brilliance but enlarged versions of ordinary mediocrity with better birth advantages.
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Jiang says the main religion binding those institutions together is neoliberalism.
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"And that was not Yale. Yale was very much a school focused, focused on success, on achievement, you know, on on getting to law..."
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"Yeah. So I think the greatest shock of Epstein Files is people recognize that the elite, they're not special. They're not smarter. They're not..."
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"Yeah. So it's a very complicated question because, um, before you only had one priest class. Right. Um, but nowadays you have different, uh,..."
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Jay Shapiro does not let Jiang hide inside the viral avatar.
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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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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