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He asserts that AI's authority is built by controlling what people see and believe, adapting the cave/paradigm to contemporary attention economics.
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He asserts that AI's authority is built by controlling what people see and believe, adapting the cave/paradigm to contemporary attention economics.
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The Bismarck passage read aloud rejects speeches and majority decisions as decisive and says great questions are decided by iron and blood.
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Public opinion does not matter in geopolitics; power matters, as shown by empires later worshiped despite violence.
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Jiang distills Aeneas's logic into power over love: Troy is lost, Italy must become the new empire, and Dido must be discarded because she is in the way.
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Jiang says the Iliad is fundamentally about the curse of power and love's ability to redeem and save, which Virgil will invert in the Aeneid's ending.
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The people who maintain power in Plato's cave do not need force; they rule by manipulation because prisoners believe in the shadows and in the rulers' power.
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Jiang states the course's grand reveal: real power and currency are not money but human consciousness, because consciousness creates reality and is the source of wealth and power.
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For Jiang's Greeks, war fighting and speech making are the same civilizational act by different means: both try to impose a reality on others.
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"This is not a science project, guys. It's an occult project. It's designed to bring aliens, demons into this world. And then you're like,..."
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"...thing that exists really in this world is consciousness. Nothing else. Power is the capacity to direct people's consciousness to create reality itself. Alright?..."
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"...Germany will not be determined by its liberalism, but by its power. Pressure must concentrate its strength and hold it for the favorable moment,..."
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"Maybe if I had like a million years of data, I could do that, but I can't do that. I have like a few..."
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"...matter in geopolitics. It doesn't matter in geopolitics. What matters is power. Okay? Oh, that's it, guys. Wow. Oh, okay. All right. We did..."
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"If the face had let me free to live my life, to arrange my own affairs of my own free will, Troy is the..."
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"...Italy? Okay, so what matters is not love, what matters is power. That's why we live, that's why we exist, to seek more power...."
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"...So the Iliad is fundamentally a story of the curse of power, the evil power, and the ability of love to both redeem and..."
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"...anything there's not enough of them okay the way they maintain power is through manipulation and trickery and deception and we know this because..."
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"just like get rid of them and there's this chain around my neck it's like a it's like a ribbon and he doesn't know..."
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"...want man do whatever you want okay so they who on power you think they have an army you think they have magic and..."
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"...reveal of the semester, of this course is this. The real power, the real currency in the world is not money, it is human..."
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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...
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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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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Jiang turns the Epstein files into a theory of war: social reality is a cave, the dollar is a consciousness trap, empire survives by looking invincible, and the exposed parasite network is already fighting...
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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 Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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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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