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Jiang claims that his own communication style can produce simplification and therefore requires explicit caveats that the material is provisional intellectual speculation.
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He describes his pedagogical project as presenting minority interpretive frames for students to work through themselves rather than delivering settled scholarship.
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He describes his pedagogical project as presenting minority interpretive frames for students to work through themselves rather than delivering settled scholarship.
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Jiang plans a semester-long AI sequence using Karen Hao's journalism as core reading, with his own skeptical interpretation overriding his earlier neutral stance toward AI safety projects.
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He uses literary references (Milton, Goethe, Ayn Rand, Dostoevsky, Augustine) as evidence that each civilization’s strategy comes from different stories about God, selfhood, and pride.
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He defines the Kabbalistic schema as requiring moral acceleration through sin and repentance, arguing this underwrites why doing evil may be treated as a path to eventual redemption.
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Jiang's research method is doubt, debate, and imagination: predictions create self-doubt, debate tests perspectives, and imaginative leaps reach truths not directly visible.
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Jiang prefers the Allen Mandelbaum translation because he is focusing on the ideas rather than the language.
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He explicitly warns that the model is theory and intellectual speculation, not prophecy; the point is to improve reasoning and stay open to different outcomes.
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"After I posted my class from last Thursday, my friend as well as teacher, David Bromwich, sent me an email. And what we're going..."
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"And sometimes when people see someone who's very confident, they don't really remember that a lot of this is speculation and oversimplification for the..."
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"So I do this a lot. You give memorable abridgements of the history of ideas and imagination. What needs underlying is the amount that..."
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"And he's actually right in that I am offering you a very, um, Minority interpretation of paradise loss. Why I'm doing so will be..."
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"So this is a project I'll be working on, uh, in the future. And I'm really looking forward to presenting it to the world..."
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"Okay. So feel free to ask questions, feel free to criticize me, feel free to stop me. I'm not clear. All right. So, um,..."
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"Six years after my initial skepticism about OpenAI's, uh, altruism, I've come to firmly believe that OpenAI's mission to ensure AGI benefits all of..."
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"Okay? Because of their pride. And the thing about Paradise Lost is that when you read it, and we'll read a part of it..."
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"Because if we can learn for ourselves, we can be like God. And God created us to be his slaves and his servants, okay?..."
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"Or is it envy? And can envy dwell in heavenly breasts? These, these, and many more causes import your need of this fair fruit...."
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"This is the fractal that underpins the Tree of Life, which underpins the entire universe. Okay. You can see how you have these fractals..."
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"The Russian tradition believes in the concept of the catacomb. All right. Which is to stop the end of Christ, which is like, let's..."
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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 reframes the Iran-Israel-U.S.-Russia conflict as a long-horizon contest in worldview and political systems, where structural elites, narrative control, and religious grammar shape strategy more than leaders changing seats.
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The midterm turns a ceasefire into a world model: history moves like a river, eschatology makes prophecy into a plan, and the people who survive collapse are not the ones with the best machines...
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Dante is not offering a church-approved tour of the afterlife.
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The apparent U.S.-Iran war is recast as an imperial succession crisis.
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School says it teaches literacy, competence, creativity, and lifelong learning.
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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.
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