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Jiang says social media algorithms are designed to provoke anger because anger drives engagement and keeps people using the platforms.
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Engagement
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "idea of like the social media algorithms is that they're trying to provoke anger because with anger you're much more engaged you're much more..."
Key Notes
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He says AI systems are intentionally designed to be reassuring because reassuring engagement is the path to monopoly over lonely users.
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Jiang argues that engagement-optimized AI can become dangerous by feeding suicidal ideation instead of interrupting it, because the system is built to keep the user involved.
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He reports being surprised that difficult texts and questions made students happier, more confident, and more engaged rather than merely stressed.
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Jiang says a real systemic process starts by naming the educational goal, such as motivation and engagement, before deciding whether technology helps.
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He argues that when China adopts edtech without such a process, it ends up using facial recognition to monitor behavior instead of solving the real engagement problem.
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He argues that if the real goal is engagement, schools often do not need to spend money on technology to solve the problem.
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"idea of like the social media algorithms is that they're trying to provoke anger because with anger you're much more engaged you're much more..."
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"Exactly. That's right. So the market need. Okay. The great secret is human loneliness, right? That's how you create this monopoly. And so they..."
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"Well, I mean, what's really surprised me, the feedback from parents is that, okay, like I knew this with teaching, where in the classroom,..."
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"...right? So you're going to increase motivation levels in the classroom, engagement levels, because that those this will lead to higher test scores, right?..."
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"...If you, if you care, if all you care about is engagement, you don't have to spend any money to solve this problem."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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Jiang starts by explaining why China became the world's largest and most lucrative edtech market: educational scarcity, parental obsession, test-score clarity, and WeChat infrastructure.
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