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Jiang says his analytic style combines math/physics training with English literature after switching majors at Yale.
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English Literature
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"...were at Yale. Just to be clear, your degree was in English literature. Was it not at Yale? It wasn't? Yes. International Relations or..."
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"Right. So when I went to Yale, I was actually a math and physics major. I was declared a math and physics major, but..."
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"What spurred your interest in geopolitics? Giving you a degree was English literature. Okay. So, I've always been a very curious person. I love..."
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"...teacher, but I wanted to become a writer, I was an English literature major at Yale, and so I met some journalist friends who..."
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"...he is one of one America's, um, uh, major professors of English literature. Um, I studied English literature under him and he's, and he..."
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"...to become an educator. I went to Yale College and studied English literature there with the intention of being a lawyer, a corporate lawyer,..."
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"...let's set the record straight. OK, I have a B.A. in English literature. I have a B.A. in literature from Yale College, and that..."
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"...the psychology of these Nazis. Because that's my background. I'm an English literature major. And I specialize in close reading. We call it close..."
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"...here in the United States at Yale with a degree in English literature."
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"...Shakespeare, but you mentioned it with some of the other great English literature works that English as a language has this propensity to be..."
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"So I started taking English literature, and I fell in love. I mean, the first semester, we read books I've never heard of. So..."
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"...do this for the rest of my life. Maybe not research English literature, because as you can imagine, you probably know this, but academia..."
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The stream begins as a thank-you and career update, but its real pressure is larger: leave China, refuse the influencer trap, build schools, democratize creativity, and prepare communities for a world Jiang thinks is...
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Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
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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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Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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Mehdi Hasan does not let Jiang enjoy the Nostradamus frame.
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Jay Shapiro does not let Jiang hide inside the viral avatar.
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Kim Iversen brings Jiang on because the channel has become a prediction machine.
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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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