definition
Efficiency imagines the best case and extracts profit; resilience imagines the worst case and asks whether a society can survive it.
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Risk
Harvard and Yale operate like venture capital firms: they prefer risky applicants with possible world-changing upside over solid applicants with predictable modest success.
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diagnosis
Poor kids can succeed, but Jiang frames the main path as leaving one's community for a more mobile environment, which is high-risk and requires unusual individualism.
prediction
Saudi Arabia remains an outlier but is vulnerable if oil runs out or Middle East war disrupts it.
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Harvard and Yale operate like venture capital firms: they prefer risky applicants with possible world-changing upside over solid applicants with predictable modest success.
diagnosis
The admissions prize is not the professor or reliable professional but the crazy person who might change the world and make the university famous.
interpretation
Satan's second speech argues that a true God would reward Eve's risk-taking and search for knowledge rather than punish it.
definition
A bank run exposes the fragility of multiplying receipts beyond the actual gold reserve.
prediction
From the model, Jiang predicts that Alexander will pursue aggressive expansion and take strategically unwise risks once he becomes king.
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"The idea of efficiency is, let's imagine the best case scenario and try to make as much money out of it as possible. Okay?..."
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"So for poor families, is there any way for the poor kids to succeed, to be the rich parent you describe in the future?..."
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"...to succeed is to abandon your community. Okay? But that's high risk. Right? So you have to be extremely individualistic to take such a..."
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"...somewhere else and try my luck, that's taking a really high risk. Okay? So to succeed, you have to take high risk. So another..."
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"Okay. It's also really highly educated. Alright. So does that make sense? Okay. So Saudi Arabia it's really an outlier here. Alright. But the..."
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"...come to my restaurant every single day. And so, there's no risk. There's absolutely no risk involved. I guarantee we'll make at least $500,000..."
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"So, option one is, low risk, really good plan, solid returns, $500,000 a year, okay? Option two is, concept, vague idea, I have absolutely..."
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"We forget everyone else. Okay? That's the Harvard mentality. And that's why they're the most famous university in the world, because they're looking to..."
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"This is a speech where Satan, the serpent, convinces Eve to eat the fruit, okay? And this speech is very powerful, okay? So I'm..."
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"...he is a true God, he will reward you for your risk -taking, right? He said the fruit will kill you as a test...."
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"And you can only do that by transgressing, by making mistakes, by disobeying authority. And a true God would reward you for seeking more..."
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"Okay. So that's a really good point. The problem is, so the answer is that they all knew each other anyway. Okay. Because it's..."
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