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Jiang proposes Mark Zuckerberg as a contemporary elite case study because Zuckerberg refused large buyout offers while Facebook's rise and later expansion into AI and VR looked unnaturally smooth to him.
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The lecture starts by warning against overconfident certainty, then rewires from literary method to a hard model of AI: today’s systems are pattern-fitters optimized for compliance, so power becomes control over what counts as...
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The lecture starts by warning against overconfident certainty, then rewires from literary method to a hard model of AI: today’s systems are pattern-fitters optimized for compliance, so power becomes control over what counts as...
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"an elite today let's look at certain individuals in our timeline in our world and then figure out why they did what they did..."
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"...seamless how successful Facebook has become and nowadays you know it's meta it doesn't even do social media it's much more focused on AI..."
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"...companies that spend the most on AI, including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Oracle. As you can see, year by year, they're putting more..."
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"...think that we need to really focus on the ideas of meta -learning and collaboration more. And right now, we're still stuck in a..."
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"...that really solidified for me and clarified me the importance of meta -learning. We need to teach students to learn for themselves. And so..."
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"...and it's liberating right because once if you're going to teach meta learning properly they feel so much more empowered about themselves so it's..."
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"...ultimately is an alliance of transnational capital. Multinationals, like Google and Meta, and intelligence agencies that were based in Jerusalem. Okay? So, secret societies..."
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"...imperial bureaucracy where it's trying to create the culture or the meta -reality of all Europeans."
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"They are competing institutions, the bureaucracy, by controlling this meta -reality that's culture, it controls the way that these other institutions behave. Okay? So,..."
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"...the semester. What I will argue is that culture is the meta -reality. Meta -reality. So what's meta -reality? Meta -reality is the understanding..."
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The lecture starts by warning against overconfident certainty, then rewires from literary method to a hard model of AI: today’s systems are pattern-fitters optimized for compliance, so power becomes control over what counts as...
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Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
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