A student suggests the punishment works by dulling or numbing desire itself.
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Numbing
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"...There's no... It's only just privilege. And privilege is boring. It's numbing. Okay. So, for them, the greatest challenge is how do you find..."
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A source-grounded reading of the seminar's central move: Inferno is not only a theater of punishments but a machine for moral reflection, and Virgil's authority keeps showing the limits that Dante will eventually have...
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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