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The First Crusade recruits many motives at once, including forgiveness, legal immunity, vengeance, land hunger, apocalyptic belief, chivalric loyalty, piety, fanaticism, and glory.
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He asserts that interviewers' basic questions about AGI's target reveal a deliberate opacity, which he interprets as meaning the implied target is godlike autonomy.
Energy is mental motivation, especially the costly willingness to say 'I am wrong' and commit to self-improvement.
Christian Zionism is powerful because it fuses these stories into a script that answers where humans came from, why they are here, and where they are going.
The Soviets fought for Mother Russia while Germans fought for Lebensraum, making Soviet motivation deeper in Jiang's account.
The First Crusade recruits many motives at once, including forgiveness, legal immunity, vengeance, land hunger, apocalyptic belief, chivalric loyalty, piety, fanaticism, and glory.
The conspiracy against Caesar is not reduced to one motive: Decimus, Cassius, and Marcus Brutus each have distinct reasons for wanting Caesar dead.
Jiang argues that Caesar did not primarily want to become king; like Sulla and Marius, he wanted to restore the Hannibal-era Rome of sacrifice, ancestral loyalty, and reform.
The Iliad's second new feature is human psychology: it asks what motivates Achilles, Priam, and others to fight.
"So this is a really huge problem, you know, so Karen Howell is a reporter. She was working for the, um, technology review at..."
"...as Japan then you look at energy energy is level of motivation and usually when I think of energy we think of fiscal energy..."
"himself I Well, according to this formula, the second person is expending much more energy than the first person. Even though if we just..."
"So, energy is a measure of motivation. And we can measure motivation by a group's openness to accepting its limitations, its failings. Okay, so..."
"crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, it's interesting because it is actually a reimagining of Plato's Allegory of the Cave because Jesus was this truth..."
"the power of these three stories, Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the crucifixion of Jesus, the second coming of Jesus, it's really helping us..."
"So now we're saying this is the difference between the Germans and the Russians is Hitler did not purge his military. Stalin did purge..."
"A lot of people go on this crusade against the Turks. All right, so let's summarize and look at the individual reasons why people..."
"Elite overproduction. So as we discussed, when a society becomes much more wealthy, you have a problem of elite overproduction. Basically, younger sons who..."
"People actually believe this. Adventurism, Romanism, okay? Chivalry. Chivalry means, chivalry, okay, we didn't discuss this, but it's important that you know. Chivalry. Chivalry..."
"That's right. Yep, that's right. So if you think about it, politics, political change, it's really about myths, right? If you want to create..."
"So you could say that Decimus Brutus, he was driven by jealousy, or maybe thwarted ambition. Okay? He wanted to prove that he was..."
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...
The episode starts with Iran and ends with Putin, but the real machinery is the formula between them: mass times energy times coordination.
Rome does not hand Octavian power because he is the best general, the most charismatic speaker, or the obvious heir.
Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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