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He implies that naming conventions such as 'neural network' and 'AI' operate partly as ideological framing rather than neutral scientific categories.
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Odysseus' speech attempts to expand Achilles' imagination and create a new emotional reality, rather than simply bargaining with him.
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Jiang reads Trump's 'we are winning' and 'Stone Age' rhetoric as evidence that the United States is not actually winning the Iran war.
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Aeneas' fall-of-Troy narrative is propaganda designed to make Greek culture itself appear like the real Trojan horse: philosophy, theater, rhetoric, and poetry as deceptive forces that poison Rome from within.
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The Aeneid's Sinon episode casts Greek theater, philosophy, and rhetoric as deceptive crafts used to manipulate good but naive Trojans.
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The long speeches in the Iliad are long because the speakers are not merely exchanging responses; they are trying to create realities.
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Odysseus' rhetorical challenge is to solve Achilles' loss of face without requiring Agamemnon to apologize, by creating a new reality Achilles can inhabit.
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Odysseus' speech attempts to expand Achilles' imagination and create a new emotional reality, rather than simply bargaining with him.
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Jiang contrasts Odysseus' outward, collective 'we' reality with Achilles' inward, self-absorbed 'I' and 'me' reality.
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"understand um how this works is I'm trying to turn each face into a distinct mathematical model all right that is unique to it..."
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"for marketing purposes it's to get more money for investors it's a trick people no no no the real reason is you're trying to..."
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"Our economy is strong and improving by the day, and it will soon be roaring back like never before. It will top the levels..."
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"Okay, so he's basically saying that we're winning this war and we will bomb them to the Stone Ages, which tells us he's actually..."
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"to go off to the Italian peninsula because the gods have told him that he is fated he is destined to found the Roman..."
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"Dido will fall in love with him because not only is he brave and handsome but he's also a good man. He's a good..."
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"...going to show us is that the greek culture philosophy theater rhetoric it's all one of deception the real trojan horse is greek culture..."
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"thick of it all a young soldier hands shackled behind his back with much shouting trojan shepherds were hauling him toward the king he'd..."
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"Where can I find some refuge? Where on land, on sea? What's left for me now? A man of so much misery. Nothing among..."
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"...is trained in theater. He's trained in philosophy. He's trained in rhetoric. And he's using all his craft, all his skills, in order to..."
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"Achilles gets in a fight with Agamemnon. He refuses to fight. And the Trojans, led by Hector, are destroying the Greeks. So, Agamemnon and..."
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"They're trying to create their own reality. Okay? So with speech, what you're really trying to do is you're trying to project a movie..."
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