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Jiang makes the test explicit: what matters is whether communication preserves people's ability to think for themselves rather than force-feeding them a fixed emotional conclusion.
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Independent thought
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Jiang calls AI the government's 'last hope' because a population that is waking up and thinking more independently still needs to be managed by a new mechanism of persuasion and narrative control.
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"whatever the content that you put out if that is is it a net positive or net negative on on on on the imagination..."
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"fortune teller right yes i think people are um people that are bad are those who trying to come trying to convince you into..."
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"...are much more informed. They're much more capable of their own independent thought than previously, you know? So you need a new mechanism to..."
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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