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Jiang says ego shutdown under psychedelics yields a more objective lens because it reduces the self's normal filtering and control over perception.
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Objectivity
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Predictions help validate a model, but correct predictions do not prove causation, and Jiang says fame has reduced his objectivity because his statements can affect events.
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Jiang says he is now a player rather than only an observer, which constrains his prediction accuracy and objectivity.
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Objectivity does not exist; Jiang previews a later claim that reality is a collective hallucination shaped by imagination rather than an independent object.
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He says people are inclined to trust systems like ChatGPT precisely because they appear nonhuman and objective, which makes AI useful as a new apparatus for control, gaslighting, and ideological management.
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Jiang says Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War is his favorite history book because its objectivity, honesty about Athens, and complexity make it a deep guide to human behavior and the drivers of history.
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Jiang says travel is crucial because it breaks mental habits and forces a person to challenge assumptions through contact with unfamiliar people and ways of life.
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Jiang says living as a stranger in a strange land develops objectivity and self-reflection, grounding that advice in his own path from Canada and Yale into adult life in China.
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"at work including spiritual forces and also your ego is shut shutting down right exactly and so your ego shut down and so you're..."
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"So, we just live in the world imagined by occultists. Who they are, what they want, how they work is something that we'll discuss..."
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"How do you differentiate between causation and correlation? Okay. This is a great question. And it's something that I think a lot about. So,..."
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"...emphasize is that I myself appreciate the limitations to my own objectivity because of my status today. So, that's from Joyce. Isn't pump and..."
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"Yeah, so AI is a very big thing because it's a side -off, right? So let me explain why, okay? First of all, all..."
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"But from the government's perspective, it's a very important sign -off. In fact, it's basically the last hope, right? You know, because, like, how..."
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"Yeah, so my favorite historical book of all time is The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. Mm. And you can read over and over, because..."
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"Um, I mean, I think you should just make predictions, right? Because anyone can make predictions. I mean, like you talk to a taxi..."
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"...and become a stranger in a strange land that develops your objectivity, that develops, develops your capacity for self, um, reflection. Um, and the..."
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"...but what we will learn next semester is the idea of objectivity. Okay? Objectivity. It doesn't exist. And this is suddenly proven. Okay? This..."
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"...learn about the world to constantly maintain my curiosity maintain my objectivity and try to provide Enlightenment uh to whom humanity okay so those..."
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"...of the ideas but the copy of the will itself. Whose objectivity the ideas are. This is why the effect of music is so..."
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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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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Sneako presses Jiang after the Iran war turns him into a sudden internet figure.
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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
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