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Jiang answers the objection that current AI is only a tool by saying Dante would focus on intention: Silicon Valley is trying to create God or immortality even if it never succeeds.
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He identifies the forces behind Trump as interest blocs that want to use American power for themselves, including oil companies such as Exxon, Silicon Valley advocates of AI surveillance, and the military-industrial complex.
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Jiang identifies Trump's beneficiary coalition as Christian evangelicals, Israel-supporting Christian Zionists, AI/Silicon Valley, and counter-elites competing with finance elites under elite overproduction.
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Wall Street backs the current elite and Silicon Valley backs the counter-elite, making control of Washington a financial fight between status quo and revolution.
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The AI bubble is described as companies lending money in circles and relying on GCC investors and Trump-aligned Washington for eventual bailout support.
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The quoted material identifies Masha Drukova as a Silicon Valley investor formerly tied to Putin's youth movement who spoke favorably of Epstein.
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He argues Silicon Valley is not the real source of innovation; the American military funded the underlying technologies that became personal computers and the internet.
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He says Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and similar figures function as poster boys or front people who make military and public knowledge acceptable, entrepreneurial, and monetizable.
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"Yeah. It's like, I feel curious, like how could we, like why we regard AI as alchemy, but obviously it has to mention a..."
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"...doesn't work. There'll never be immortality, but what are all these Silicon Valley's building and spending their money on? Immortality, right? It's not that..."
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"...own interests. And this includes oil companies like Exxon. This includes Silicon Valley, who want to create an AI -surveillance state, okay? This includes..."
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"Yeah. So, um, Trump was first and foremost interested in opening the China market, right? Okay. So what's the point of this trade war?..."
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"Okay. The people who recognize an opportunity in Trump are the Silicon Valley tech oligarchs, people like Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel. Uh, Seth Altman,..."
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"...who want to shift power from the financial le ad to silicon valley art ificial intelligence okay so now there are two major bubbles..."
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"any money they 're all bubbles okay now who ever the elite is is able to control and direct government policy right so basically..."
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"...civil war going on in amer ica between wall street and silicon valley hmm where wall street is the old money and they control..."
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"...basically the fanatics who support Israel, as well as the AI, Silicon Valley. All right? So, we learned about the idea of elite overproduction...."
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"faction is the one that is establishment right the establishment faction which has been power uh for a lot for the longest time um..."
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"...capital wall street and then uh new deep state is palantir silicon valley these people yeah right okay"
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"This is the Peter Turchin idea. And he argues that what leads to the election is the election. What leads to civil war is..."
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