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12 timestamped hits 8 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-05-28, day precision Aliases: engineer

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Engineers

A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...

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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Final Examination: Collapse, Imagination, and the Soul's Purpose (2026-05-28, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Final Examination: Collapse, Imagination, and the Soul's Purpose; The Holy Empire of AI; AI Becomes God When Empire Learns To Monetize Loneliness.

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Key Notes

Comparative clarification on 2014-06-19.

model

Jiang argues Shanghai is not representative of all China, but its population and educational resources still make its output strategically important for China's future economy.

Timestamped Evidence

The Holy Empire of AI

2026-05-19, day precision · Game Theory #26: The Holy Empire of AI

Transcript

"...really delivered what the CIA wanted, the agency was not upset. Engineer Kirk Bradley remembered a CIA employee telling him, we bought the things..."

Why This Iran War Feels Like a Bear Trap

2026-04-18, day precision · Is the Iran War ACTUALLY Over? w/ Professor Jiang: LIVE 6 pm PST

Transcript

"...to this? And the idea is rule by technocrats, rule by engineers who use data, statistics, artificial intelligence in order to develop policies that..."

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Why This Iran War Feels Like a Bear Trap

2026-04-18, day precision · alias-match

Reading

Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...

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