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Jiang draws a categorical line between the internet and AI by saying the internet is not alchemy.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "decades ago they would have said the internet is alchemy but the internet has brought you know education like this youtube live stream to..."
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The student counterargument defines the internet as spreading ordinary worldly ideas, while AI is framed as creating something from nothing.
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The internet is presented not primarily as a communications tool but as a mass surveillance system that lets military power read and manipulate regional moods through social media.
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The internet depends on undersea cables, and Jiang warns that conflict near Iran could cut cables and disrupt internet access for 20 to 30 percent of the world, with major effects on finance and the cloud economy.
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He argues globalization, mass media, and the internet shifted young people toward individual health, happiness, and economic opportunity over community obligation.
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He argues Silicon Valley is not the real source of innovation; the American military funded the underlying technologies that became personal computers and the internet.
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In response to the social-media question, Jiang says Twitter and Facebook are private public faces on top of internet infrastructure built, controlled, and protected by the US military.
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The move from village to city to internet increases abstraction and produces psychological problems.
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"decades ago they would have said the internet is alchemy but the internet has brought you know education like this youtube live stream to..."
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"...can you try to explain the difference between AI and the internet?"
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"Like the internet facilitates normal worldly ideas to spread, but AI is from nothing creating..."
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"...is it can actually cut the undersea's cables that power the Internet, right? If you did that. You know, you know, these these underground..."
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"...school teacher with a pretty popular YouTube following. And it's the internet that has called me professor. In China, it's a sign of respect..."
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"It's surprised me. But I'm committed to education. I'm committed to free debate. I'm committed to free discussion. I am probably happy to engage..."
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"...called surveillance. And basically what I mean by that is the internet. So whether or not, the internet was created not to actually help..."
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"Okay? All right. This is the Internet, guys. Now, you don't know this. You think that the Internet is just that you go on..."
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"...moves, some cables get cut off, and then, suddenly, you've lost Internet access. And this would, basically, cause major disruptions throughout the world. All..."
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"admit that Iran will can can just draw this out for the longest time and then America will have to eventually send in ground..."
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