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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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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.
He presents transparency, innovation, and openness as the cultural principles needed for a reforming curriculum to learn from mistakes and evolve.
Israel's advantage over Saudi Arabia, in Jiang's answer, is openness: democracy, criticism, social mobility, innovation, education, and technology.
He says Qin conquered because stable states became stagnant while Qin received mercenary knowledge, innovation, low-nobility talent, and social energy.
Empire produces bureaucracy, and bureaucracy has three anti-innovative features: centralization, censorship, and writing as propaganda rather than knowledge creation.
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.
Empires initially innovate through scale, standardization, and centralization, but over time bureaucracy turns them into insular monopolies that kill innovation.
Jiang presents the steppes as the most innovative, open, aggressive, and courageous zone, which is why steppe peoples were repeatedly among history’s greatest conquerors.
"...every major government expenditure, a huge government project, we have massive innovation, okay? Before World War II, when the government spent billions and billions..."
"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..."
"...Orthodoxy. So that science does not become the main engine of innovation in the world. It becomes the main engine of orthodoxy or suppression...."
"...past 20, 30 years is the scaling out, the popularization of innovation. Right? Where American technology is spread throughout the world. Especially in China...."
"...flourish okay so my three major principles were um transparency um innovation okay transparency um innovation openness and so my idea was this rather..."
"...of opportunities for social mobility. So Israel has democracy it has innovation okay it has technology okay and Saudi Arabia doesn't have these things...."
"to rivers so it's easiest for them to support soldiers and do good they have a large population and they were on fertile ground..."
"day overtake them okay another way of saying this is that once we come once you reach an equilibrium the people inside the equilibrium..."
"...on saying this is a system that will lead to tremendous innovation and this is what happened in china in mesopotamia and in egypt..."
"...a very important concept. Because this concept is what gives us innovation. So you have these three things in place."
"...Okay? So in this system of city states. You have massive innovation. And we see this throughout human history. Okay? So think of China...."
"And therefore they will conquer the others. What's interesting often is that it is a city that is most disadvantaged that conquers the other..."
Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
School says it teaches literacy, competence, creativity, and lifelong learning.
Game theory begins with a small dating game and ends with a civilizational forecast: when status becomes the prize, love, fertility, policy, and geopolitics all bend around the same zero-sum structure.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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