Glossary
Willingness to admit mistakes, learn, debate, and promote merit.
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openness
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Glossary
Willingness to learn, grow, admit mistakes, and improve.
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Glossary
A civilization's willingness to learn from others, reflect on mistakes, and tolerate free inquiry.
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Jiang uses openness for a social order that welcomes criticism, innovation, self-correction, mobility, and merit-based rise.
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normative
Jiang uses the experiment rhetorically to argue that modern prejudices about how the world works prematurely close the mind to interesting possibilities.
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diagnosis
Jiang says the real social function of elite homosexuality and incest is to preserve privilege by excluding others and blocking openness and social mobility.
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A student argues the social meaning of homosexuality has changed from exclusion in Dante's time to openness in the present, and Jiang treats that as the central paradox he wants to resolve.
model
A student argues that the contemporary meaning of homosexuality has changed because it now signals openness rather than exclusion.
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Another student argues that ostensible openness can actually produce closure, invoking a line of thought similar to The Closing of the American Mind.
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question
Jiang counters by asking why today's world still appears creatively barren if openness and money are supposed to liberate talent.
definition
Jiang defines love as an action of openness, generosity, and other-directed movement that turns the universe toward God and increases happiness.
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diagnosis
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.
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"divine comedy how what our souls are our souls are essentially these morphic fields okay and so when edward is turning around and staring..."
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"...the violence against God and nature. Okay? Social mobility, okay? And openness, right? Homosexuality, it's the expression of self -love. And self -indulgence. It's..."
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"Yes, you first. Because before, homosexuality meant exclusion, whereas now I think it's more, way more inclusion, where we see as they're way more..."
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"...it's more about open -minded. And so before it wasn't about openness, it was exclusion. So you think homosexuality is a good thing? It's..."
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"I just think the definition changed. So if you think it's a bad thing and this thing changed, then, like, you can't just say..."
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"...I understand his question, that he thinks that homosexuality today represents openness instead of closeness and exclusiveness. So then it shall now be elevated..."
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"Actually, I don't think homosexuality means that they're embracing everything and openness. I think it actually means the opposite. There's a book called The..."
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"So it makes everyone much more tolerant, right? Much more open. That's great. Okay. So that's all great. But how to explain to Dante..."
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"Yeah, but why would that lead to a decline in creativity? Right? Because in theory, if you can make a trillion dollars writing a..."
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"...that love is an action. Okay. It is an act of openness generosity to others. And when you do that you turn the universe..."
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"So this is a really huge problem, you know, so Karen Howell is a reporter. She was working for the, um, technology review at..."
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"...you have a huge advantage. Okay? And so this idea of openness. And the last idea is this. An empire, it's fractured. So if..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The law of asymmetry says the obvious winner may be the side structurally set up to lose.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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School says it teaches literacy, competence, creativity, and lifelong learning.
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