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He agrees that true scientific innovation is occult in character because major inventors and heroic founders act as if they are on a mission from God to transform the world.
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Innovation
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Jiang says free will makes both good and evil technological projects possible, but the innovators most likely to succeed historically are those aligned with power, control, and money rather than service to humanity.
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Science, once dominant, becomes orthodoxy and suppression rather than innovation, helping explain Jiang's claim that the last 20 to 30 years produced scaling and popularization more than major scientific breakthroughs.
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He presents transparency, innovation, and openness as the cultural principles needed for a reforming curriculum to learn from mistakes and evolve.
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Israel's advantage over Saudi Arabia, in Jiang's answer, is openness: democracy, criticism, social mobility, innovation, education, and technology.
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He says Qin conquered because stable states became stagnant while Qin received mercenary knowledge, innovation, low-nobility talent, and social energy.
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Empire produces bureaucracy, and bureaucracy has three anti-innovative features: centralization, censorship, and writing as propaganda rather than knowledge creation.
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Open cooperative competition means openness to learning, cooperation through contact and shared practices, and competition to improve; Jiang treats it as the mechanism that makes city-state systems innovative.
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"Okay? And hopefully this will help people in the future. Hey, from Alex. I don't disagree with you. I don't disagree with the notion..."
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"...AI into one basket. Yet, I point out that all true innovation is occult in nature. I completely agree with this. You have to..."
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"amnestic to whether your intention is to access it for the benefit of mankind or to exit it when the intention will dominate the..."
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"If you follow that direction, you're almost like right away into power. So people who actually agree, like, you know, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs,..."
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"So China was very smart to just say, you know, we shouldn't be doing this, but then the trade war started to happen. And..."
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"I was like, what's the problem? And he's like, we can't actually update the software. And then I was like, okay, okay, here, okay,..."
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"...existing, uh, software. Um, so, uh, that shows you how much innovation comes from abroad. China itself lacks the capacity to self innovate. Um,..."
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"...every major government expenditure, a huge government project, we have massive innovation, okay? Before World War II, when the government spent billions and billions..."
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"There were all these tremendous breakthroughs in science, primarily Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, which allows for the Manhattan Project. I'm completely..."
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"...what runs your economy. But because you're exploiting people, that hampers innovation, that hampers political development. So I think if China were to face..."
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"...Orthodoxy. So that science does not become the main engine of innovation in the world. It becomes the main engine of orthodoxy or suppression...."
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"...past 20, 30 years is the scaling out, the popularization of innovation. Right? Where American technology is spread throughout the world. Especially in China...."
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