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Optimism and pessimism are examples of personality filters that shape perception, but Jiang argues they are not adequately explained by simple parental inheritance or genetics.
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Genetics
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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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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Jiang argues that AI, nanotechnology, genetic design, and immortality are the wrong ethical focus because the current scientific framework cannot really produce godlike control; the real issue is bureaucratic corruption and waste.
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"...Now, people, and your response could be like, well, it's just genetic because both your parents are optimistic. So you're optimistic. Both your parents..."
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"I know this because all three of my kids are different from both my wife and myself. Okay? So the question is, where does..."
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"...We're trying to defy God. The third is the idea of genetics, where we are trying to change people's genetic blueprint so that we..."
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"Also, we're trying to develop immortality. Okay. We're looking for the elixir of immortality. So these are three massive ethical debates within science. And..."
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"Just ask me. All right, so the real problem is this. Okay, the real problem is this. Science has become an imperial bureaucracy. That's..."
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"Yes? Maybe similar to artificial intelligence is artificial insemination or genetic manipulation in order to create the perfect... That is correct, yes....perfect offspring....perfect offspring..."
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"...as incest in, in causing more inclusion, exclusion, because from the genetic point of view, although I do have some reservation about genetics, from..."
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"...sin. The problem is our pride. And so through you know genetics the idea of pride the idea of original sin the idea of..."
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"...the 19th century, the late 19th century. The real concern was genetics because these Catholics were coming into the country. Right. These Catholics from..."
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"...to interpret this, on being a family, which could be a genetic line, which could be sort of a national line. It's a biblical..."
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"...the farmers. Okay? And so what happened, we know this from genetic studies, is that the men, the European farmers, were killed, and the..."
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"So Japan, Japanese people and Chinese people, they share genetic origins. They're basically the same race. Japan was settled by Chinese who migrated over..."
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