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He says humans resist AI because they want to feel valuable and part of something larger, whereas AI threatens their contribution to the common good.
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Human value
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Jiang says attention is the true wealth beneath money and that modern economic discourse trains people to treat GDP and monetary gain as the center of human life.
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Jiang says the present system trains people to worship money as God by reducing human life to economic value and productivity.
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"what the purpose of ai is the purpose of ai is to make you as a human being worthless redundant we don't need you..."
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"So, before, these people were called priests, right? What's the job of a priest? Priests were to create a narrative about the world that..."
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"And so, another way of saying this is attention. Like, if you can direct people's attention, then you have all the power in the..."
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"It's about, like, you know, like, your life is... A set economic unit. If you die, then that's a downgrade of GDP, okay? So,..."
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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...
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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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