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Jiang says the major mistake in popular historical thinking is to impose moral labels such as good and bad on large civilizational processes.
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"...is taught, how we think about the world is we apply labels to things, okay? Like good, bad, beneficial, not beneficial. That's not how..."
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"...computer to recognize a sheep or a dog? Humans have to label the images. Okay? ChatGPT. Why is ChatGPT so good at writing essays?..."
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"...wanted to say is that if I had to put a label on my life, I would put a label on my own philosophy...."
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"...be fooled by the material world. And don't be fooled by labels. Christians, Buddhists, Jews. There's no difference. We're all the children of God...."
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"...of different animals okay does that make sense I need to label my data but I can't tell I can't make an AI that's..."
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