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5 timestamped hits 2 source readings 2 extracted notes Newest source: 2026-05-28, day precision Aliases: optimizations

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Optimization

A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...

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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Final Examination: Collapse, Imagination, and the Soul's Purpose (2026-05-28, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Final Examination: Collapse, Imagination, and the Soul's Purpose; The Future Is What You Make Happen.

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Key Notes

Definition stated on 2024-06-13.

definition

He says AI is infinite iteration: the model returns a result, is told when it is wrong, and refines itself until it matches the target output.

Timestamped Evidence

The Future Is What You Make Happen

2024-06-13, day precision · Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future)

Transcript

"this is wrong and what the computer then does is we find this model until it becomes this doesn't make sense okay so what..."

The Future Is What You Make Happen

2024-06-13, day precision · Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future)

Transcript

"structure it cannot create by itself okay so if I'm able to do all three things then I'm able to use AI to optimize..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

The Future Is What You Make Happen

2024-06-13, day precision · claims, semantic-ref

Reading

The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...

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