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He argues that the secret AI can exploit is human loneliness and the wider crisis of meaning produced by a money-centered social order.
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Jiang says peak globalization is technologically impressive but unsustainable because it is decadent, anti-human, and unable to provide meaning.
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The host argues that South Korea shows how top-tier modernization can coexist with low fertility, suicides, loneliness, and a loss of meaning.
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"Okay. So Peter Thiel, um, wrote a book called from a zero to one and I just read it yesterday and in the book..."
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"It's made us more, um, you know, driven and this, this has created the world that we live in today, but this has created..."
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"so what's going to happen is this system is a fracture and so we're living at a time when we've reached the peak of..."
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"divisions between the countries are are quite um interesting it's uh well it seems as if for the Russians for example the most difficult..."
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"do like well measured by robot density in terms of how many robots per individuals and such so well I would put it on..."
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"like Amelia um oh I guess Durkheim who wrote about the the industrialization in France in the 19th century that the the areas would..."
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"when you when you go there to see how where they are now is is it is this the human component that gets lost..."
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
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