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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...most powerful men in America because he founded a company called Oracle. Oracle. All right? And this is him with Donald Trump announcing something..."
Jiang presents Oracle as a company built to collect and organize data for companies and governments, then stresses that its early incompetence did not prevent continued support from CIA and Navy clients with effectively unlimited resources.
The Ellison biography passage says early Oracle customers knew the product would not work yet funded it anyway because they were buying the idea and future potential rather than present delivery.
Jiang concludes from the Oracle story that the CIA and Navy had to help create both Oracle and Larry Ellison, though he leaves the exact cause open and only offers possibilities such as charisma, family ties, or luck.
Jiang presents Palantir as the predictive counterpart to Oracle: Oracle stores everything about you, while Palantir uses that data to forecast behavior and advance an AI surveillance state.
"...most powerful men in America because he founded a company called Oracle. Oracle. All right? And this is him with Donald Trump announcing something..."
"They were a database company designed to collect data and then organize this data in a way that was useful to companies and to..."
"...few years. The Navy John Shields said, the Navy understood that Oracle might crash and burn at any time, yet it was exciting to..."
"...effectively than you can do it, right? But what happened with Oracle is that it cost them a lot of money. They weren't getting..."
"...is Palantir? Palantir is the ultimate AI surveillance company. Okay? So Oracle creates databases of information. Everything about you is in an Oracle database...."
"...spend the most on AI, including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Oracle. As you can see, year by year, they're putting more money into..."
"...to house my Trojans in defeat. But not now. Grignion Apollo's Oracle says that I must seize on Italy's noble land. His listening lots..."
"...you look at AI bubble, you've got companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, okay? Lots and lots of different companies."
"...to create the Pax Judaica. So, think of companies like Nvidia, Oracle, Microsoft, Google. Well, they'll probably transfer themselves to Israel because that is..."
"...a lot of technological companies in the United States, Google, NVIDIA, Oracle, they will probably move to Jerusalem and help build the technological center..."
"...in Pitho when Agamemnon strode across the rocky threshold, asking the oracle for advice. The start of the tidal waves of ruin tumbling down..."
"bard would start again, impelled to sing by the oracle of Zeus, the oracle of Odysseus' lords, who reveled in his tale, again Odysseus..."
The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
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 lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
Jiang makes the Iran war a test of religious prediction: if Al-Aqsa survives and peace arrives, his model fails.
Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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