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

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Extremes

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; From Iran To The AI God; The Holy Empire of AI.

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Key Notes

ideological diagnosis stated on 2025-10-18

diagnosis

Jiang says many young people experimenting with fascism, Nazism, communism, or other extremes are not committed believers so much as people testing options after legitimacy collapses.

Timestamped Evidence

History Never Became Secular

2025-10-18, day precision · How to Predict the Future-The Pokepreet Podcast ft. Professor Jiang Xueqin

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"I mean personally yeah and and so I think a lot of it is not like they're they're personally drawn to fascism or Nazism..."

From Iran To The AI God

2026-05-26, day precision · Game Theory #28: Predictive History

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"...% of people are like that. Okay? Then you have some extreme people who are more idealistic. Then you have more extreme people who..."

From Iran To The AI God

2026-05-26, day precision · Game Theory #28: Predictive History

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"...to do things that are, from an outsider's perspective, irrational or extreme or fanatical, like start wars in the Middle East? And the argument..."

From Iran To The AI God

2026-05-26, day precision · Game Theory #28: Predictive History

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"...must be a male, okay? So the universe is divided into extremes, into opposites. Then this gives rise to the idea of generation, the..."

The Holy Empire of AI

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

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"...the fact that in each field you have certain individuals an extreme minority who seek power Power, order, and control, okay? So again, in..."

The Holy Empire of AI

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

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"...Templars, who want power, order, and control, they engage in more extreme practices. And so what they will do literally is they will eat..."

The Holy Empire of AI

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

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"the thing about suicide is that those who are the most extreme, those who are the most fanatical, will win out in the end,..."

The Holy Empire of AI

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

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"The best startups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of occult. The biggest difference is that occults tend to be fanatically wrong about..."

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The Population Becomes The Weapon

2026-04-28, day precision · alias-match

Reading

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